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Matory defines anti-Zionism as "the rejection of the racially-based claim that Jewish people have a collective right to Palestine." Zionism??s supposedly racial nature would surely surprise the German and Yemenite Jews who built the Jewish state together. His claims that Zionism is race-based and "violates Palestinian rights" are strikingly similar to the biased screed that "Zionism is racism...

Author: By Douglas E. Lieb | Title: Anti-Zionism and Anti-Semitism | 9/21/2007 | See Source »

...faculty meeting, Peretz Professor of Yiddish Literature Ruth R. Wisse vocalized the underlying rationale of such censorship as few other professors have dared. Denying that anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism are separate phenomena, she declared anti-Zionism??that is, the rejection of the racially-based claim that Jewish people have a collective right to Palestine—the worst kind of anti-Semitism. For such defenders of Israel, any acknowledgment that Zionism in principle and in practice violates Palestinian rights is tantamount to an endorsement of the Holocaust...

Author: By J. lorand Matory | Title: Israel and Censorship at Harvard | 9/14/2007 | See Source »

...Durban, South Africa, which the American and Israeli delegations left in protest after it turned into the “U.N. Conference on How Much We Hate Israel.” It was a conference dominated by virulent, unrelenting anti-Semitism—not to be confused with anti-Zionism??replete with sales of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion taking place just outside the meeting halls. Ubiquitous flyers enthusiastically wondered, “What if Hitler Had Won?” The Arab Lawyers’ Union distributed books of cartoons featuring hook-nosed Jews...

Author: By Nathan Burstein, | Title: The Shame of Mary Robinson | 10/1/2002 | See Source »

...some Palestinians were displaced from their homes, he seems oblivious to the historical context of their displacement. He claims that Israel was created “as a safe haven after the atrocities of World War II.” While this may be true, the entire concept of Zionism??dating back long before the Second World War—is based on the concept that the Jewish people have a right to live in their historic homeland. When Europeans came to America, they were exercising no such right, and held none of the historical, religious or cultural...

Author: By D. CODY Dydek, | Title: Faulty Analogies Abound | 10/18/2001 | See Source »

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