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May 13, 2020

A Recent Academic Study of the Israel-Palestinian Conflict Ignores History to Blame the Jewish State

“Holocaustia” and the “Israel lobby” are the problems.

A professor of political science at the University of Pennsylvania, Ian Lustick is recently the author of Paradigm Lost: From Two-State Solution to One-State Reality, a book that bemoans Israel’s supposed failure to create a Palestinian state in the territory now under its control. To Lustick, this failure can be attributed to an Israeli inclination toward “distrust and territorial maximalism rather than inclinations to compromise,” compounded by a culture of “Holocaustia” that “tells Israeli Jews what it means to be a Jew,” and facilitated by the power of the “Israel lobby.” Yisrael Medad writes in his review:

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