Zeev Sternhell poses home, in Jerusalem on February 02, 2015. Zeev Sternhell, born in 1935, is an Israeli historian, political scientist, commentator on the IsraeliPalestinian conflict, and writer. He is one of the world's leading experts on Fascism. Sternhell headed the Department of Political Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and writes for Haaretz newspaper. Zeev Sternhell traces the roots of Fascism to revolutionary far-left French movements, adding a branch, called the 'revolutionary right', to the three traditional right-wing families cited by René Rémond legitimism, Orleanism, and Bonapartism. Sternhell is a long-time supporter of the Israeli peace camp and writes critically in the Israeli press about the Israeli occupation and policy toward the Palestinians. In The Founding Myths of Israel (published in Hebrew in 1995) AFP PHOTO / THOMAS COEX / AFP PHOTO / THOMAS
