Mythologies Without End.
His comment reverses the infamous claim made in 1973 by Israeli diplomat Abba Eban that “the Arabs never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.”
Slater is a retired professor at the State University of New York in Buffalo and a contributor to
Mondoweiss. In assessing blame for what he characterizes as a “conflict” between Israel and its regional neighbors and the Palestinian people, Slater targets numerous mythologies underlying the dominant mainstream narrative.
The purpose of the book, he says, is to demythologize that narrative.
In doing so, Slater concedes that he has done no original research. Instead, he has undertaken a review or synthesis of the existing literature.
Ryan Rodrick Beiler
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Israel lobby groups are pushing to codify into law worldwide a controversial definition of anti-Semitism with the intent of suppressing criticism of Israel.
The definition has been rightly criticized for conflating criticism of a state and its political ideology with anti-Jewish bigotry. What has received less scrutiny is how it would also brand as anti-Semitic critiques of Zionism and Israeli policy expressed by Jews, including Israelis, for decades.
This definition of anti-Semitism, adopted by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA), provides what it says are 11 examples of anti-Semitism.
One of the examples – “drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis” – implicitly condemns as anti-Semitic the statements of Jewish critics, especially Jewish Israelis, who have made precisely that comparison.