Mordechai Kedar (Hebrew: מרדכי קידר, pronounced [moʁdeˈχaj keˈdaʁ]; born 25 November 1952)[1] is an Israeli scholar of Arab culture and a lecturer at Bar-Ilan University.

[3][4][5] He received his PhD from Bar-Ilan University in 1987, with a thesis entitled The Public Political Language of the Assad Regime in Syria: Messages and Ways of Expressing Them.

[9] The eight Palestinian city-states would be the Gaza Strip, Jenin, Nablus, Ramallah, Jericho, Tulkarm, Qalqilya, and the Arab part of Hebron, all of which he says possess traditional tribal leadership structures capable of transitioning to a self-governing emirate.

In July 2014, he said that threats to kill or imprison terrorists are an ineffective deterrent stating: "the only thing that deters them is if they know that their sister or their mother will be raped in the event that they are caught.

Dr. Kedar was describing the bitter reality of the Middle East and the inability of a modern and liberal law-abiding country to fight against the terror of suicide bombers.

On the same week, scheduled appearances at three Jewish schools were cancelled after protests regarding his association with Pamela Geller, an anti-Islam organizer from the U.S., who was banned from the U.K. the previous year.