The Press Turns a Blind Eye to Bernie Sanders’s Jeremy Corbyn Problem
The Jewish candidate doesn’t seem to mind being surrounded by anti-Semites.
December 16, 2019
Accusing the victims of becoming the executioners in order to play on European sympathies.
Used by Palestinians to denote the creation of the Jewish state, the term nakba—meaning “catastrophe”—has come to be part of the vocabulary of anti-Israel activists. Shmuel Trigano investigates the historical narrative summed up by this word, which involves a deft inversion of good and evil and has evolved in such a way as to appeal to Western, especially European sympathies:
The Jewish candidate doesn’t seem to mind being surrounded by anti-Semites.
Accusing the victims of becoming the executioners in order to play on European sympathies.
A tax-exempt financial pipeline to Hamas.
“Utterly different from anything published in the Jewish world until then.”
Ernst Jünger and the Jews.
Used by Palestinians to denote the creation of the Jewish state, the term nakba—meaning “catastrophe”—has come to be part of the vocabulary of anti-Israel activists. Shmuel Trigano investigates the historical narrative summed up by this word, which involves a deft inversion of good and evil and has evolved in such a way as to appeal to Western, especially European sympathies:
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