Awards & Winners

Joan Peters

Date of Birth 1938
Place of Birth United States of America
(Americas, DVD Region 1, United States, with Territories, Lacks Family Cemetery )
Nationality United States of America
Profession Journalist
Joan Peters is a former CBS news producer of documentaries, and the author best known for a number of theses on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, put forward in her controversial book From Time Immemorial, published in 1984, in which she claims that the Palestinians are largely not indigenous to the area and therefore do not have claims to territory. Peters has also written for magazines such as Harper's, Commentary, The New Republic, and The New Leader in the 1970s and early 1980s and helped create a series of TV news documentaries for CBS in 1973 regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and provided commentary on the subject for PBS. Peters served as White House Adviser on American Foreign Policy in the Middle East during the Carter Administration. She is currently an advisor for the National Committee on American Foreign Policy.

Awards by Joan Peters

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1985


National Jewish Book Award for Israel
Honored for : From Time Immemorial