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Unpopular opinion: Focusing your journalistic/academic writing about Israel/Palestine & not knowing Hebrew and/or Arabic is really quite absurd (cough, @PeterBeinart
). And no, speaking with a tiny bubble of Palestinian-American academics is not a substitute for 1st hand insight.
). And no, speaking with a tiny bubble of Palestinian-American academics is not a substitute for 1st hand insight.
https://haaretz.com/us-news/.premium-peter-beinart-s-one-state-solution-sounds-so-perfect-it-s-practically-utopian-1.8983601 Also see
@AnshelPfeffer
's elegant analysis of the "Yavne" that never was:
@AnshelPfeffer
's elegant analysis of the "Yavne" that never was:
Also: https://www.camera.org/article/in-anti-zionist-manifesto-beinart-dismisses-mainstream-jews-and-facts/ @GileadIni
Also: https://www.algemeiner.com/2020/07/09/the-increasing-radicalism-of-peter-beinart-must-be-confronted/ by @WarpedMirrorPMB
Also also: https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/end-the-jewish-state-lets-try-some-honesty-first/ by @DanielGordis
Now, Peter is a narcissist. Not uncommon in his fields of the chattering class. All the fine writers above have systematically shown all his factual errors, misleadings and airbrushing of history, while erasing the actual lived experience of the natives of I/P. I only add -
That not mastering the language of the region you presume to cover, thus not to being able to access primary sources is an academic's shame in a level that Peter should really be quite embarrassed about, had he had some self-awareness.
