Richard L

Richard L. Benkin, Ph.D.

drrbenkin@comcast.net

 

Selected Experience:  Current

 

Vice President; Gallagher Bassett Services, Itasca, IL

US Correspondent; Weekly Blitz, Dhaka, Bangladesh

International Correspondent, Amader Shomoy, Dhaka Bangladesh

Correspondent, Asian Tribune

Special Advisor to The Intelligence Summit on Bangladeshi Affairs

Freelance Writer

 

Selected Experience:  Previous

 

1987-2000:      Consultant; Owner/Operator various health care facilities.

1980-1994:      College Lecturer

1980-1987:      Community Activist; Manager, Professional Health Care

1974-1980:      Assistant Professor, College instructor; Sociology and Social Sciences;

                        DePaul University, Roosevelt University, Camden (NJ) County College,

                        University of Pennsylvania (Graduate Teaching Assistant)

 

Selected Publications

 

The Social and Cultural Development of Jewish Communities in Eastern Europe, 1976 Doctoral Dissertation, University of Michigan Press

Sociology:  A Way of Seeing, 1980; Wadsworth Publishing Company

The Book of Miriam, 2005 (Under consideration.)

The Battle Beneath Jerusalem, 2005 (Dhaka Press, Coming 2008)

Israel, Etc.:  A Collection of Essays 2000-2006, 2006 (Under consideration.)

Our Fight for Freedom: The Story of a Falsely Imprisoned Muslim and one Jews’s Fight

to Free Him (Proposal under consideration)

 

Essays and social commentaries on the Middle East, Bangladesh and South Asia, terrorism, and other topics published extensively on several continents; a frequent guest on radio programs in the US, Canada, and Israel. He has addressed audiences at several universities in the United States and Asia.

Speech writer.

 

Selected Accomplishments

 

Successfully fought for the release of Bangladeshi journalist, Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury, imprisoned after writing articles warning about the rise of Islamic radicals, urging Bangladesh to recognize Israel, and advocating for religious equality.


Dr. Benkin is currently helping a group of Bangladeshi Hindu refugees who have been victimized and plundered by their country's Vested Property Law. This act has enabled Bangladeshi rulers and others to plunder, rape, and murder religious minorities. It has become the cornerstone of a decades-long effort at to ethnically cleanse Bangladesh of its non-Muslim population. He recently visited over a dozen refugee camps, observed porous borders, and met with numerous victims and organizations. He started organizing people and is committed to making the world aware of this genocide-in-the-making and securing justice for its victims.

Since 2006, Dr. Benkin also has been investigating and exposing the emerging South Asian threat stemming from the cooperation of radical Communists and radical Islamists. He has termed this the "Red-Green Alliance" and continues to speak about the atrocities and strategic advantages it already has carried out, as well as the very real threat it poses to us all.


 “Special Congressional Recognition,” 2005

Nominated for 2006 Lorenzo Natali Prize for jounalism

Member Islam-Israel Fellowship Council

Advisory Board Member Bangladesh Minority Lawyers Association

Named one of Congressman Mark Kirk's "Ten for the Tenth"

Special Recognition 2007, Bangladesh Editors Forum

Special Recognition 2007, Bangladesh Minority Lawyers Association

Member, Scholars for Peace in the Middle East

Owner and Founder: http://www.interfaithstrength.com

Board of Editors, Stephen Gill Gazette

Expert Analyst, International Analysts Network