Uriel "Uri" Davis (Hebrew: אוריאל "אורי" דייוויס, Arabic: أوري ديفيس; born 8 June 1943 in Jerusalem) is an academic and civil rights activist.
Davis has served as Vice-Chairman of the Israeli League for Human and Civil Rights and as lecturer in Peace Studies at the University of Bradford.
[4] During the 1961–1963 period he worked on Kibbutz Erez as an alternative form of national service to military conscription.
[8] In 2009, Uri Davis was appointed to teach a course at the Palestinian Al-Quds university on critical Israeli studies.
In an interview to Irish Times in 2002 Davis said: "I am an anti-militarist and recognise the right to use force in certain instances, in armed resistance, which is legal in international law.