Yakov M. Rabkin has been Professor of History at the University of Montreal since 1973. He has also taught at universities in Australia, France, Israel, Japan, Russia, South Africa, Ukraine and the United States. His areas of expertise are contemporary Jewish history, international relations, and science and technology policies. His books, translated into many languages, include A Threat from Within: A Century of Jewish Opposition to Zionism, and What is Modern Israel? Rabkin is frequently invited to comment on current events in electronic and printed media. Ronnie Kasarils, a South African Jew, devoted his life to fighting apartheid in South Africa where he was a guerilla fighter, comrade of Nelson Mandela and later Minister for Intelligence Services in the ANC Government of Thabo Mbeki.