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Jerold S. Auerbach

Jerold S. Auerbach is the author of 12 books, most recently, “Print to Fit: The New York Times, Zionism and Israel (1896-2016).”

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Jerold S. AuerbachMarch 4, 2020
Rashid Khalidi’s war on Israel
For the Columbia University professor, Palestinians are the Native Americans of the Middle East. He imagines “parallels” between “the resistance of Native Americans to their dispossession and that of the Palestinians.” But his futile search for parallels exposes the spurious nature of his claim.
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Jerold S. AuerbachFebruary 26, 2020
Sanders as a ‘Jewish’ president?
For assimilated Jews of a liberal persuasion who are as critical of Israel as Sanders, his election doubtlessly would be cause for celebration.
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Jerold S. AuerbachFebruary 7, 2020
‘The woman’ … and her one-sided view of two peoples
In Hebron, the kindness and cordiality that she effusively displayed towards West Bank Palestinians quickly vanishes as she focuses on the Jewish Quarter.
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Jerold S. AuerbachJanuary 28, 2020
Palestine, peace and the president
If implemented, U.S. President Donald Trump’s Mideast peace plan will reaffirm the right of Jews to continue to inhabit a substantial portion of their biblical homeland, which is what Zionism is all about.
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Jerold S. AuerbachDecember 23, 2019
Discovering Palestine
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.”
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Jerold S. AuerbachAugust 23, 2019
Palestinian ‘Canaanites’
Before 1948, “Palestine” had been the preferred term of Jewish identification.
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Jerold S. AuerbachJune 17, 2019
The invention of Palestinians
In the beginning of the 20th century and continuing throughout British Mandatory rule, there was little discernible evidence of Palestinian national consciousness.
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Jerold S. AuerbachApril 25, 2019
Why the Trump administration should take into account the meaning behind ‘Palestine’
PLO military commander Zuhair Mishin acknowledged: “There are no differences between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. We are all part of one nation.”
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Jerold S. AuerbachMarch 5, 2019
Lament from the South Hebron hills
The mantle of Israel-bashing links academics and historians like David Shulman, who believes that the Jewish state is worthy of loathing.
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