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Kathleen Christison

Kathleen Christison
Occupation(s)Political analyst, author

Kathleen (McGrath) Christison (born 1941) is an American political analyst and author whose primary area of focus is the Israeli–Palestinian conflict.

For sixteen years, Christison worked as a political analyst for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).[1][2] Between 1963 and 1972, her work concentrated on Vietnam. The last seven years before her resignation from the agency in 1979 saw her work there centered on the Middle East; and according to Robert Dreyfuss's 2005 book Devil's Game: How The United States Helped Unleash Fundamentalist Islam (p. 160), "Kathy Christison ... headed the CIA's Egypt desk from 1973 to 1977." Since leaving the CIA, Christison has worked as a free-lance author. She and her husband, Bill Christison, have gained recognition as vocal critics of Israel.[3][4][5] Her articles have been published extensively by the Journal of Palestine Studies[citation needed] as well as in the Electronic Intifada[6] and Adbusters.[7] She is also the author of two books: Perceptions of Palestine: Their Influence on U.S. Middle East Policy (1999 & 2001) and The Wound of Dispossession: Telling the Palestinian Story (2002).[8][9][10]

  1. ^ Nicholas Laham (2004). Crossing the Rubicon: Ronald Reagan and U. S. Policy in the Middle East. Ashgate Publishing. p. 116. ISBN 0-7546-3961-4.
  2. ^ Naseer Hasan (2003). Dishonest Broker: The U.S. Role in Israel and Palestine. South End Press. ISBN 0-89608-687-9.
  3. ^ Euphemia Mu (17 October 2005). "Ex-CIA officials criticize Israel, draw student protestors". Daily Princetonian. Archived from the original on 17 August 2007. Retrieved 2007-07-26.
  4. ^ "The Insane Brutality of the State of Israel". Arab News. July 24, 2006. Kathleen Christison is a former CIA political analyst and has worked on Middle East issues for 30 years
  5. ^ "The Arab/Israeli crisis". Jamaica Gleaner. August 6, 2006. Archived from the original on September 27, 2007.
  6. ^ Kathleen Christison (19 July 2006). "Atrocities in the Promised Land". Retrieved 2007-08-21.
  7. ^ Kathleen Christison and Bill Christison (March–April 2007). "Does the Israeli Tail Wag American Dog?". Adbusters. Retrieved 2007-08-21.
  8. ^ Davidson, Lawrence Roy (2001). America's Palestine: Popular and Official Perceptions from Balfour to Israeli Statehood. University Press of Florida. p. 219. ISBN 0-8130-2421-8.
  9. ^ L Davidson (2001). "Perceptions of Palestine: Their Influence on US Middle East Policy(review)". Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies. 20 (2): 140–141. doi:10.1353/sho.2001.0136. S2CID 170366557.
  10. ^ D Hirst (Spring 2003). "The Gun and the Olive Branch". Journal of Palestine Studies. 32 (3). University of California Press: 39. doi:10.1525/jps.2003.32.3.39.

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