A Better Syria Strategy Can Help Achieve the U.S. Goal of Countering Iran
Economic measures might not be enough.
May 21, 2019
No, Israelis are not “European colonizers.”
A common theme of today’s anti-Israel rhetoric in the U.S. is the notion that Israelis are European (i.e., “white”) colonizers oppressing the non-European (i.e., “brown”) indigenous Palestinian Arabs. Such a framing of the conflict reduces it to racial terms familiar to most American, with clear moral valences. But, as Hen Mazzig notes, it has little connection to reality:
Economic measures might not be enough.
No, Israelis are not “European colonizers.”
Disillusionment with Communism went hand in hand with an embrace of Jewishness.
A respected journal questions orthodoxies, and professors rush to censor it.
Running for Congress doesn’t invite scrutiny.
A common theme of today’s anti-Israel rhetoric in the U.S. is the notion that Israelis are European (i.e., “white”) colonizers oppressing the non-European (i.e., “brown”) indigenous Palestinian Arabs. Such a framing of the conflict reduces it to racial terms familiar to most American, with clear moral valences. But, as Hen Mazzig notes, it has little connection to reality:
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