Career
lieutenant has also been listed as one of the three best books of the year by Japan’s leading daily Asahi Shimbun in 2010. This book is currently available in twelve languages. His other published works include studies of relations between science and technology, research on cultural aspects of science, including studies of Jews in the scientific profession, Science Between the Superpowers (Priority Press), a study of programs for the exchange of United States and Soviet Union scientists, as well as works on the fate of Soviet science and scientists after the dismemberment of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics and, more generally, on science and political freedoms.
Over the course of his career, he has given several hundred public lectures to academic and general audiences in over thirty countries.
On July 11, 2007, Rabkin joined Montreal lawyers and academics in publishing an opinion piece in Le Devoir demanding an explanation from McGill University for the dismissal of religious studies lecturer Norman Cornett. By campaigning to ban the QUAIA, they only confirm what many have long suspected: that Israel is indeed an apartheid state."
In a conversation with Alan Hart, Hart later stated that he had asked Rabkin "Is it reasonable to say that the Jews of the world now have a choice to make? Rabkin largely rejects the concept of a two-state solution for the Israel/Palestine conflict, and has expressed strong support for a bi-national state.