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You’d have to be an undergraduate to believe the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is “complicated” and “controversial,” or to think there is right on both sides. So says Professor Duncan Kennedy, who sneers that these are ?...
Undergraduates may err, but it takes a tenured professor to distort reality that badly. Kennedy is neither an historian nor an expert on the Middle East. What he is good at is thinking up radical ways to turn the academy upside down. He once suggested that the professors at Harvard...
Kennedy, like many other anti-Israel academics, attempts to reduce the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from a complex puzzle to a simplistic moral fable in which the apparently stronger Israelis, by dint of their strength and success, are always wrong and the apparently weaker Palestinians are always right. But he obscures...
You’d think these facts would interest a law professor. But not Kennedy, who prefers a tale of “original sin” in which Israel simply drove Arabs from their homes, took their land, and oppressed whoever was left.
Never mind the Jews who were expelled by Arab soldiers from Jerusalem’s Old City or the hundreds of thousands of Jewish refugees from Arab countries. Too “complicated” for Kennedy.