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Jerold S. Auerbach

Jerold S. Auerbach is the author of 12 books, including Print to Fit: The New York Times, Zionism and Israel (1896-2016) and Israel 1896-2016, selected for Mosaic by Ruth Wisse and Martin Kramer as a “Best Book for 2019.”

In 19th-century guidebooks, Christian holy sites received considerably more attention—and devotion—than the sacred places of Jews and Muslims. And revealingly, none of the authors referred to Arabs as “Palestinians.”
Whether Zionism retains any connection to the ancient sources and sites of Jewish history is entwined with the future of the Hebron Jewish community.
Before 1948, “Palestine” had been the preferred term of Jewish identification.
In the beginning of the 20th century and continuing throughout British Mandatory rule, there was little discernible evidence of Palestinian national consciousness.
PLO military commander Zuhair Mishin acknowledged: “There are no differences between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. We are all part of one nation.”
The mantle of Israel-bashing links academics and historians like David Shulman, who believes that the Jewish state is worthy of loathing.