![]() ![]() Here was this book which proved that there were really no Palestinians! Of course, the implicit message was, if Israel kicks them all out there’s no moral issue, because they’re just recent immigrants who came in because the Jews had built up the country. And it was very popular-it got literally hundreds of rave reviews, and no negative reviews: the Washington Post, the New York Times, everybody was just raving about it. It was a big scholarly-looking book with lots of footnotes, which purported to show that the Palestinians were all recent immigrants. ![]() How many of you know about Joan Peters, the book by Joan Peters? There was this best-seller a few years ago, it went through about ten printings, by a woman named Joan Peters-or at least, signed by Joan Peters-called From Time Immemorial. I’ll tell you another, last case-and there are many others like this. ![]() The Fate of an Honest Intellectual Noam Chomsky Excerpted from Understanding Power, The New Press, 2002, pp. ![]()
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