Sand Is Throwing Sand In Our Eyes

Some people, including antisemities who visit this blog, are in love with forms of the Khazarian Principle, i.e., the Jews of today are not be identified with the Jews, if they were Jews, who populated Biblical Land of Israel. Besides comfort for racisits, this conveniently permits them to claim that antisemitism isn't hatred of Jews; the Arabs are Semites; the Arabs own the Land of Israel. Or something like that.

I received this from Shalem:

Anita Shapira, head of the Weizmann Institute for the Study of Zionism at Tel Aviv University, has sharply criticized fellow TAU historian Shlomo Sand’s (History) bestselling book, When and How Was the Jewish People Invented?

“Sand bases his arguments on the most esoteric and controversial interpretations” she writes, “while seeking to undermine the credibility of important scholars by dismissing their conclusions without bringing any evidence to bear…Sand would like to promote a new Israeli agenda, striving for harmony between Jews and Arabs, to be based on the remodeling of Jewish identity…but reconciliation between peoples makes necessary a mutual recognition of truth, not an artificial analysis that presents a fabricated front…What Sand is offering is this kind of artificial analysis.”

Read her words here.