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October 28, 2015

Palestinian Popular Culture, UNESCO, and the Prospects for Peace

Stabbings aren’t a protest against settlements.

Among Palestinians, popular songs with titles like “Stab, Stab” or “Run Over, Run Over the Settler” are hits, and social media are inundated with anti-Semitic images and lionizations of terrorism. Meanwhile, UNESCO has passed a resolution condemning imagined Israeli aggression while denying any Jewish connection to Jewish holy sites. Jonathan Tobin writes:

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