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	The New York Review of Books: Mrs. Peters's Palestine: An Exchange
		Peters offers instances in which Cuinet's figures are not far from those of the Ottoman census, and the only serious discrepancy between the two sources regarding the material she uses is in the Jewish population count.
		Peters has buried this sound bit of reasoning in an obscure part of her book—as a footnote within an appendix—so that her unheralded switch in the main text from the Ottoman figures to Cuinet's has the look of a suspect sleight-of-hand maneuver, which has therefore generated a good deal of hostility.
		Peters would, if she had consulted them, have found the returns of the Ottoman censuses of 1893 and 1915 that she uses in Appendix V. The Ottoman census returns, in fact, were never published.
	www.nybooks.com /articles/5172 (4153 words)

	HRC \| Joan K. Peters
		Peters: If you start from the assumption that, "Well, we're both guys," or "We're both girls," and "neither of us is necessarily the one to do x or y," then you begin to create your lives out of the strengths that each brings to the table.
		Peters: The interesting thing is that there is a big difference if the child is adopted or if one of the women has given birth to the child.
		Peters: The other thing with gay parents is that they really have to be prepared for the world to not be as accommodating and not understand and maybe stare.
	www.hrc.org /Template.cfm?Section=Home&CONTENTID=10926&TEMPLATE=/ContentManagement/ContentDisplay.cfm (2483 words)

	The New York Review of Books: Mrs. Peters's Palestine
		Peters argues, as many Israeli and pro-Israeli spokesmen once did, that all refugees should live and be rehabilitated in their new countries, the Arabs reply that all refugees should go back to their countries of origin.
		Peters had more thoroughly investigated the files of the Arab section of the political department of the Jewish Agency, she would, I hope, have seen why the evidence she cites should be used more cautiously.
		Peters had spent more than "weeks" in the Public Record Office (the official British archives) or if she had read the relevant historical research she would have known that a similar offer was brought to the members of the British cabinet but rejected.
	www.nybooks.com /articles/5249 (5339 words)

	Commentary Magazine - Letters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Miss Peters argues that since a great many of the Arabs living in these "Jewish-settled areas" were simply newcomers, they did not remain during the 1948 war but rather returned to their original places in the Arab parts of Palestine or even beyond the borders of Palestine...
		...Miss Peters should have been equally skeptical of the data collection and therefore the findings of the Landless Arab Inquiry, the French Reports, the JohnsonCrosbie Report, and the Survey of Palestine which are flawed, but nevertheless used by Miss Peters as benchmark assumptions for her conclusions...
		...Joan Peters, a jour- nalist who undertook a massive scholarly effort involving the tech- niques of several disciplines, an undertaking that would have daunted highly trained specialists, is not credited with a capacity for mistakes-only with malignant in- tent to deceive and misrepresent...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V82I4P4-1.htm (17592 words)

	Joan Peters - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Joan Peters is a former CBS journalist and author best known for her controversial book, From Time Immemorial, published in 1984.
		She has also written for magazines such as Harper's, Commentary, The New Republic, and The New Leader in the 1970s and early 1980s.
		Despite the long-standing, essentially unanimous condemnation of the book by serious scholars, some commentators, such as the right-wing, pro-Israel extremist Daniel Pipes insist that the crux of Peters's thesis was legitimate, though they do not provide a legitimate basis for their claims.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Joan_Peters (302 words)

	Feminist Metafiction and the Evolution of the British Novel -Joan Douglas Peters- A new book from the University Press ...
		Peters' groundbreaking study focuses on women as narrators in six British novels to show that the strategic use of women's narratives was intrinsic to the formation of the Western novel as a literary form and in fact has come to define what we now understand as "novelistic" even in non-canonical works.
		Peters' selection of novels by both male and female authors is a distinguishing feature of the book; the result is a rich and original description of how gender and genre interact in the discourse of these six familiar texts: Moll Flanders, Clarissa, Jane Eyre, Bleak House, Mrs.
		Joan Douglas Peters is associate professor of English at the University of Hawaii.
	www.upf.com /Spring2002/peters.html (352 words)

	The New Case for Israel (Joan Peters) by Martin Kramer
		The old Zionist arguments, writes Joan Peters, have been eroded by “nagging doubts.” With the terror and guilt of the Holocaust receding, many of Israel’s supporters—indeed, many Israelis—“bear an oft-unnamed fear that their own championing of the Jewish State may have imposed an unfair burden upon the Palestinians.” Hands are wrung.
		Peters also omits important explanations of how she resolved problems of comparison between Ottoman and British statistics, which were collected and organized very differently.
		Peters, then, has not dispelled all “nagging doubts.” Still, From Time Immemorial raises overdue questions about the demographic history of Palestine in a way that cannot be ignored.
	www.geocities.com /martinkramerorg/Peters.htm (930 words)

	Lies
		Peters asserted, to the delight of the American intelligentsia, that Palestinian political, territorial, and historical claims to the land that is now Israel are based on a collection of myths.
		However, not long after being showered with congratulations, Peters, who is not a historian and who had not previously written anything more substantive than articles for general interest magazines, watched as critics and historians meticulously documented her distortions, exaggerations, selective omissions, falsehoods, and general mendacity.
		Speaking about the Arabs, Peters says, through a haze of irrelevant hallucination: “They are a small part of the Muslim world, and by kowtowing to their impossibly monstrous demands we are leaving out all the millions of Indonesian and Malaysian Muslims and others who are not Arab.
	www.adelaideinstitute.org /Beauty/lies.htm (2643 words)

	Book Review
		Joan Peters's book falls in the category of what may be called scholarly polemic: Scholarly by being heavily researched and documented, polemical by using selective documentation as a battering ram for an ideological position.
		Peters shows the anger of a woman scorned and the zeal of a religious convert as she describes her shock at "discovering" continuing disagreements about Palestinian demography and the historical status of Jews in Arab countries.
		Peters, no shy violet, gives herself high marks for her determination to share her new insights with the public.
	www.washington-report.org /backissues/052785/850527010.html (489 words)

	Commentary Magazine - From Time Immemorial, by Joan Peters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Joan Peters began this book planning to write about the Arabs who fled Palestine in 1948-49, when armies of the Arab states attempted to destroy the fledgling state of Israel.
		In the course of research on this subject, she came across a "seemingly casual" discrepancy between the standard definition of a refugee and the definition used for the Palestinian Arabs.
		...JOAN PETERS began this book planning to write about the Arabs who fled Palestine in 1948-49, when armies of the Arab states attempt- ed to destroy the fledgling state of Israel...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V78I1P62-1.htm (1581 words)

	Joan K Peters - When Mothers Work - Balancing Work & Motherhood (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Joan K Peters - When Mothers Work - This is a book for every working woman who has been caught in the guilt and conflict raised by the struggle to balance family and work.
		"Joan Peters challenges the idea that to be a good mother a woman has to give up her true self.
		"Joan Peters offers a vivid and trenchant critique of the everlasting norms of motherhood, while also demonstrating convincingly the cost to both families and children of this enlarged job description.
	www.joankpeters.com /women_work.htm (477 words)

	Joan Peters - TheBestLinks.com - Israel, Princeton University, United States, TheBestLinks.com:Find or fix a stub, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Joan Peters is the name, or perhaps the pen-name, of the author of From Time Immemorial.
		A "history and defense" of the state of Israel, the book initially was praised in the United States and elsewhere.
		There is dissension over whether Joan Peters even exists; Noam Chomsky stated "probably it had been put together by some intelligence agency or something like that." (Excerpted from Understanding Power, New York, 2002, p.
	www.thebestlinks.com /Joan_Peters.html (184 words)

	Joan Peters of Osterville (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Joan Peters of Osterville has drafted this document, which details how we gather and disseminate information, in an effort to demonstrate our strong commitment to online privacy.
		Joan Peters of Osterville features security measures to protect the loss, misuse, or alteration of information placed under our control.
		Joan Peters of Osterville is not responsible for the content or privacy practices of these sites.
	www.joanpeters.com /content/privacy.aspx (243 words)

	Amazon.com: From Time Immemorial: The Origins of the Arab-Jewish Conflict over Palestine: Books: Joan Peters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Peters shows that for 70 years before Israel's independence, there was considerable Arab immigration INTO Palestine--a history confirmed among others by Arieh Avneri's pre-Peters book, Claim of Dispossession: Jewish Land Settlement and the Arabs 1878-1948.
		Joan Peters, a professional writer and researchers, received a grant from an Arab Foundation to write a history of the ancient roots of the Arab population in historic Palestine.
		Peter's uses considerable primary source data, including the ottoman and British censuses and the travel journals of western visitors like Mark Twain, all of which prove that the area compromising modern day Israel and the West Bank were largely unpopulated in the 19th century and experienced waves of immigration from people looking for work.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0963624202?v=glance (1969 words)

	Book Joan Peters for Event, Meeting, Gala
		Joan Peters is the author of the prize winning book, FROM TIME IMMEMORIAL: THE ORIGINS OF THE ARAB-JEWISH CONFLICT OVER PALESTINE, which has won the National Jewish Book Award.
		Peters served as White House Adviser on American Foreign Policy in the Middle East during the Carter Administration.
		Peters has addressed many thousands of community events, as well as colleges and universities around the U.S. as well as in England, Canada and Israel.
	www.grabow.biz /Speakers/JoanPeters.htm (461 words)

	JAC Publishing & Promotions Description Page
		The action takes place in the living room of the Peters’ residence, which is next to the Presbyterian Church, in a small town in eastern Pennsylvania.
		Reverend Peters lives a quiet life as a Presbyterian minister in a small town in eastern Pennsylvania.
		Reverend Peters, at first cool to Cornelius, says, “I don’t pretend to be indifferent to him.
	www.jacneed.com /JAC/Full-Length/Egbert_Pocatello.htm (521 words)

	Interviews from Audiology Online: Interview with Joan Peters Esq., Executive Director, National Aphasia Association
		Peters: Probably the three most common causes of aphasia are stroke, traumatic brain injury and brain tumors.
		Peters: Yes, about 2/3rds of the people who have strokes are over age 65, but of course, strokes can occur in young people too.
		Peters: Yes, the book came out in the fall of 2004 and is $29.95 for consumers and $49.95 for professionals/institutions.
	www.audiologyonline.com /interview/interview_detail.asp?interview_id=334 (1082 words)

	CSU \| Faculty & Staff (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Joan Peters' classroom is a place of intersecting ideas, images, and perspectives.
		She guides them on a trail from one thought to another, until comparisons bring context, meaning, and understanding-often to the students' own lives and times.
		She is the author of a novel, Manny and Rose, and two non-fiction works about women and working.
	www.calstate.edu /faculty_staff/peters.shtml (527 words)

	The Free Press -- Independent News Media - Alexander Cockburn
		Peter's polemical work strove to buttress the old Zionist thesis that the land of Israel had been "a land without people, awaiting a people without land." Peters' book was soon discredited as a charnel house of disingenuous polemic.
		Peters' book, published 17 years earlier: "Safad at that time, according to the British investigation by Lord Peel's committee, 'contained as many as 15,000 Jews in the 16th century,' and was 'a centre of Rabbinical learning.' Source cited by Ms.
		Claiming to be inspired by George Orwell, in her book, Peters coined the term "turnspeak" to signal an inversion of reality.
	www.freepress.org /columns/display/2/2003/763 (1059 words)

	From Time Immemorial: The Origins of the Arab-Jewish Conflict Over Palestine (Part 1 of 6) by Paul Blair -- Capitalism ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Likewise, I have not sought to check every one of Peters' footnotes, which are voluminous; I have focused on the critics' claims.
		The accusations of dishonesty originated with radical-left figures who would naturally seek to discredit a book like Peters'; still, it would be easy enough to determine the truth of their claims with limited research.
		Whatever the findings, Israel's right to exist does not hinge on Peters' claims that the land was empty when the Jews arrived and that the Palestinians are recent arrivals.
	www.capmag.com /article.asp?ID=2135 (939 words)

	When Mothers Work : Loving Our Children Without Sacrificing Ourselves (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Peters is not afraid to question the sanctity--or the satisfaction--of motherhood; she points out that parenting, as it is organized today, requires women to make most of the sacrifices and take on most of the stress while depriving men of both the responsibilities and the rewards of being a parent.
		Many of these arguments have been made before, but what makes Peters's book both unique and persuasive is that she doesn't assign blame to men only; she is quick to point out that it is women themselves who are often reluctant to give up the lion's share of responsibility for child rearing.
		Happy children require happy parents, Peters argues, and having a life and identity outside of the home is essential to both men and women.
	www.familyhaven.com /parenting/parenting04/073820028XAMUS586111.shtml (359 words)

	Review of From Time Immemorial: The Origins of the Arab-Jewish Conflict Over Palestine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Reading historical materials about Palestine in the years before 1948, Miss Peters came across a statement by Winston Churchill that she says opened her eyes to the situation in Palestine.
		As Miss Peters pursued this angle she found a fund of obscure information that confirmed Churchill's observation.
		The author is not a historian or someone practiced in writing on politics, and she tends to let her passions carry her away.
	www.danielpipes.org /article/1110 (2034 words)

	Finkelstein challenges Dershowitz: : SF Indymedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		In 1984 one Joan Peters published a book called From Time Immemorial, the book was universally recognized by serious scholars to be a fraud.
		Dershowitz, I then came to chapter one footnotes 10, footnote 11, footnote 12, footnote 13, footnote 14, footnote 15, footnote 16, all of the quotes are from Joan Peters.
		I turn to Joan Peters, page 184, the identical quote with the ellipses I'm holding it up for the camera perhaps they can see this is the length of the quote.
	sf.indymedia.org /mail.php?id=1662929 (3794 words)

	Issa Fahel Vancouver Sun 06-May-1998 Making the desert bloom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Finkelstein's discussion centers around Joan Peters's book From Time Immemorial, which argues the latter — that is, which argues that Palestinian lands had been largely a wilderness, a land without a people.
		First, the evidence that Peters adduces to document massive illegal Arab immigration into Palestine is almost entirely falsified.
		Second, the conclusions that Peters draws from her demographic study of Palestine's indigenous Arab population are not borne out by the data she presents.
	www.ukar.org /fahel01.html (290 words)

	Alexander Cockburn: Alan Dershowitz, Plagiarist?
		Though neither Peter's nor her book appear in the index to The Case for Israel, they do get a mention in note 3l of chapter 2, where Dershowitz cites the work of a 19th century French geographer called Cuinct, and adds, "See Joan Peters, From Time Immemorial (Chicago, JKAP Publications, 1984).
		Peters' book, published nineteen years earlier: "Safad at that time, according to the British investigation by Lord Peel's committee, "contained as many as 15,000 Jews in the 16th century," and was "a centre of Rabbinical learning." Source cited by Ms Peters: Palestine Royal Commission Report, pp.
		Peters (page 197): "In 1858 Consul Finn reported the "Mohammedans of Jerusalem" were "scarcely exceeding one-quarter of the whole population." Source cited: James Finn to Earl of Clarendon, January 1, 1858.
	www.counterpunch.org /cockburn09262003.html (2377 words)

	From Time Immemorial by Joan Peters (paperback) - 0963624202
		The weight of the comprehensive evidence found and brilliantly analyzed by historian and journalist Joan Peters answers many crucial questions, among them: Why are the Arab refugees from Israel seen in a different light from all the other, far more numerous peoples who were displaced after World War II?
		Joan Peters's highly readable and moving development of the answers to these and related questions will appear startling, even to those on both sides of the argument who have considered themselves to be in command of the facts.
		Joan Peters also unfolds a historical record to shatter the widely held belief that Arabs and Jews harmoniously coexisted for centuries in the Arab world-the fact is that the Jews, along with other non-Muslims, were second-class citizens, oppressed in the Muslim world for more than a millennium.
	www.jewishbookcenter.com /index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=106 (262 words)

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