The Enduring Legacy of Bernard Lewis

Martin Kramer addresses the Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa (ASMEA), Washington, November 2, 2018.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQ2VG09fG7s

 

Israel’s Founding Fathers

Martin Kramer addresses the second annual meeting of the Jewish Leadership Conference (JLC) in New York City, October 26, 2018.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrdf8MjgUW0

 

The Munich Agreement as History and Analogy

Martin Kramer addresses a conference marking the 80th anniversary of the 1938 Munich Agreement at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs (JCPA), September 5, 2018.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXy9SsjQHKc

 

The Wars of Bernard Lewis

Martin Kramer speaks at an event appreciating the late Bernard Lewis at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, July 24, 2018.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdozguOYHqo

 

Bernard Lewis: Man and Myth

Martin Kramer addresses (in Hebrew) the Bernard Lewis Memorial Symposium held at Tel Aviv University on June 14, 2018.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUw7kbPyb5k

 

1948: The Three Votes that Made Israel

Martin Kramer delivers the Joseph Lebovic Lecture at the Anne Tanenbaum Center for Jewish Studies, University of Toronto, February 12, 2018.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKxt91DD1D0

 

The Balfour Declaration and the “Jewish Problem”

Martin Kramer addresses a conference marking the centenary of the Balfour Declaration at the Israeli Knesset in Jerusalem, November 7, 2017.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GrkIfI7KYI

 

The True Story Behind the Balfour Declaration

An informational clip produced by the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, November 2, 2017.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAYDRdHytO4

 

Balfour 100 Years On: Salvation or Betrayal?

Martin Kramer in a roundtable with Ian Black and Ghada Karmi, Aljazeerah, October 27, 2017.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQiLvsw9qGs

 

Debating the Future of Israel

Martin Kramer speaks at a conference on “Looking Back, Looking Forward: 100 Years of the Arab-Israeli Conflict,” at the Crown Center, Brandeis University, September 10, 2017.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9p_G7UOxa7I

 

The Pathology of Middle Eastern Studies

Martin Kramer delivers the keynote address at the annual conference of the Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa (ASMEA) Washington, October 28, 2016.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbfD4HIddMI

 

What Happened at Lydda

Martin Kramer reviews his criticism of Ari Shavit’s claim of a “massacre” in Lydda in 1948, at the launch of Kramer’s book The War on Error: Israel, Islam, and the Middle East, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, October 21, 2016.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3StVqinb18

 

Sykes-Picot and Zionism

Martin Kramer explains why the Zionists fought against the Sykes-Picot agreement, in an address delivered at a conference on the centennial of the Sykes-Picot agreement, sponsored by the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Jerusalem, May 18, 2016. The full text is available here.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tI33pDuE5e4

 

Sykes-Picot and the Zionists

Martin Kramer offers a short summary, via an interview, of an address on Sykes-Picot and Zionism, available in full just above.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVktYsGyKAY

 

Gaza=Auschwitz: Antisemitism by Analogy?

Martin Kramer analyzes Holocaust inversion in a lecture at the Harvard Faculty Club, Cambridge, November 18, 2014.

 

Fouad Ajami’s Discovery of Israel

Martin Kramer speaks at a memorial to the late Fouad Ajami at the School for Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University, Washington, November 12, 2014.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbbpalz8rwU

 

The Middle East in 2016

Martin Kramer addresses the Soref Conference of The Washington Institute for Near East Policy on “When the Dust Settles: The Middle East, Circa 2016,” Washington, May 13, 2011.

 

Israel, the United States, and the Arab Spring

Martin Kramer speaks on a panel on stability versus democracy in U.S. policy at the 2011 Herzliya Conference, Herzliya, Israel, February 9, 2011.

 

The U.S. in Muslim and Arab Perspectives

Martin Kramer speaks on actual Arab attitudes toward Iran’s nuclear ambitions at a conference on “The U.S. and Israel under Changing Political Circumstances,” Institute for National Security Studies (INSS), Tel Aviv, December 18, 2008 (from minute 1:45).

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MghncrwqR8w

 

The Washington Institute Book Prize

Martin Kramer answers FAQs on The Washington Institute Book Prize, which he administers, Lansdowne, Virginia, September 23, 2008.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoBf6e53EM8

 

Democracy and Security

Martin Kramer speaks on democracy promotion in the Arab world at a conference on “Democracy and Security: Core Values and Sound Policies,” Prague, June 5, 2007.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icK3ezHJjlc