Just like Zionism, Palestinian and other Arab national identities were modern and contingent, a product of late nineteenth- and twentieth-century circumstances, not eternal and immutable. The denial of an authentic, independent Palestinian identity is of a piece with Herzl’s colonialist views on the alleged benefits of Zionism to the indigenous

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From a historical perspective the Gaza War will be pivotal not because of its intensity, but because the global response to the war revived the extremist claim that all of Israel is “illegitimate” and “occupied.” Once a position only held by terrorists and disheveled ideologues, protestors and influencers now rant... See more