Dr. Mazin Butros Qumsiyeh is a Palestinian scientist and author who teaches at Bethlehem University. He founded the University’s Palestine Institute for Biodiversity and Sustainability, and he is the founder and director of the Palestine Museum of Natural History. Qumsiyeh has published over 130 scientific articles and several books including Sharing the Land of Canaan; Human Rights and the Israeli/Palestinian Struggle (2004) and Popular Resistance in Palestine: A History of Hope and Empowerment (2010). In a 2021 entry of his blog, Popular Resistance, Qumsiyeh described his perspective that the world is witnessing in Israel the last throws of a settler colonial system.