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Israel/Palestine

2014-10-15T14:38:29+00:00

Tel Aviv University, which was recently ranked Israels best, also has the doubtful distinction of employing a professor of history who is regarded as a first-rate authority on Jews by lots of first-rate Jew-haters. Shlomo Sand earned the admiration of antisemites everywhere with his Invention of the Jewish People, a book that was hugely successful as it appealed to both old-fashioned Jew-haters and supposedly progressive anti-Zionists. In a comprehensive review that takes Sands ramblings perhaps too seriously, his truly accomplished Tel Aviv University colleague Anita Shapira has politely noted that Sand bases his arguments on the most esoteric and controversial interpretations, while seeking to undermine the credibility of important scholars by dismissing their conclusions without bringing any evidence to bear. Needless to say, Sand enjoyed his new-found celebrity and eventually delighted his fans with yet another fanciful screed, this time on the Invention of the Land of Israel. Since he apparently promised to come up with a trilogy, he has now published another volume where he announces his resignation from being a presumably invented Jew. In response to this publication, my very erudite Facebook friend David Sigeti wrote a comment that echoes Shapiras point quoted above and highlights the important question how Sands specious scholarship could be so shamelessly promoted by many academics and intellectuals: I think that the best short phrase to describe Sand is serial crackpot. [According to Sand] All the genetic evidence is fabricated and the Ashkenazim are really from Central Asia, Yiddish is a Slavic language in spite of being mutually comprehensible with various dialects of German, the ancient Romans were incapable of transporting large numbers of slaves across the Mediterranean in spite of having fed Italy from Egypt for centuries etc., etc., etc. He is almost certainly the only author in the modern, democratic world to write a book that relies on so many crackpot hypotheses in fields as diverse as genetics, linguistics, and history and to get it taken seriously by other academics and intellectuals. That this nonsense gets taken seriously may be the most telling example of the confluence between anti-Zionism and classical antisemitism. It is almost impossible to imagine anything like Sands ideas being taken seriously on any subject other than the Jews. The willingness of supposedly respectable academics and intellectuals to give Sand a respectful hearing is eerily reminiscent of the willingness of otherwise apparently rational academics and intellectuals to believe the most insane ideas about the Jews back before open, self-declared antisemitism became a social faux pas. Below just a small sample of screenshots illustrating the company Sands admirers in intellectual and academic circles keep: Sands work is of course quite popular on Stormfront (here e.g. https://www.stormfront.org/forum/t660227/ and https://www.stormfront.org/forum/t660836/ ); Amazon UK customers who buy David Dukes insights on Jewish Supremacism also tend to buy Sands first book as well as Gilad Atzmons vile screed The Wandering Who (and apparently, the official website promoting Sands first book linked to an enthusiastic review by Atzmon); Iranian Press TV invited Sand to promote his book on the Invention of the Land of Israel; and Sands defense against criticism of his most recent book in Haaretz was reposted at the viciously antisemitic blog The Ugly Truth. more... http://warped-mirror.com/2014/10/12/shlomo-sand-resigns-from-being-an-invented-jew-or-something-like-it/

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Second thread on Shlomo Sand shira .... Israeli Oct 2014 #1

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1. Second thread on Shlomo Sand shira ....

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Wed Oct 15, 2014, 11:54 AM

Oct 2014

...within 5 days to .....has he done something to upset you ?

I guess you dont like us Israeli Left wing post zionist atheists ?

To bad .

Just for you .....