The eloquent lies of Edward Said

The late Edward Said was probably one of the best-known advocates of the Palestinian cause in the West. As this article by Cameron Brown shows, this is unfortunate because, "In addition to his unending bias, Said's work is filled with constant historical distortion, a decetifully poor choice of historical texts, and, worst of all, the author butchers quotations and clearly ignores others - all in order to fit his political ideology." It's a lengthy article (30-odd pages) but worth taking the time to read; unsurprisingly, Said's flawed work is nevertheless quoted approvingly in much Christian anti-Zionist "scholarship".

Ethnic cleansing in Palestine? - challenging revisionism

In recent years Israel has been accused of "ethnically cleansing" Palestinian Arabs during Israel's 1948 war of independence. Among her accusers, bizarrely and sadly, are the so-called Israeli "New Historians" such as Ilan Pappe. I was therefore pleased to hit upon this brief commentary on Pappe's work on the Engage site, which (like Efraim Karsh's important articles here and here and the statements of Arab spokesmen) sets the record straight.

Great video

I just stumbled across this excellent 10-minute clip which gives essential background to the Arab-Israeli conflict. It is necessarily brief, for those who want to explore further there is an excellent compilation of resources here. The video makes brief mention that the Palestinian wartime leader, Haj Amin-Al Husseini, collaborated with Hitler in perpetrating the Holocaust. This important detail, which is dealt with exhaustively here is slowly being edited out of history, not least by various Christian anti-Zionist writers who claim that the Palestinians have unjustly been made to pay for Hitler's crimes, or that Israel has exploited the Holocaust.