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From Time Immemorial The Origins of the Arab-Jewish Conflict over Palestine

Joan Peters

Dispells the myth that Arabs and Jews lived together peacefully in former days in the Arab countries and examines Jewish and Arab immigration patterns

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Candace

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Candace

This was a big national bestseller the speaker proved was a hoax while he was a graduate student, despite endorsements from intellectuals like Barbara Tuchman and Saul Bellow.

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And then in 1984, there was a kind of big national bestseller called From Time Immemorial, which claimed to reveal new aspects of the Israel-Palestine conflict that proved Israel was in the right and...

— Episode: Candace Owens x Norman Finkelstein

Episode: Candace Owens x Norman Finkelstein

This was a big national bestseller the speaker proved was a hoax while he was a graduate student, despite endorsements from intellectuals like Barbara Tuchman and Saul Bellow.

"

And then in 1984, there was a kind of big national bestseller called From Time Immemorial, which claimed to reveal new aspects of the Israel-Palestine conflict that proved Israel was in the right and the Palestinians were in the wrong.

And I proved, demonstrated that this book, which had the endorsement of the who's who of the Jewish intellectual community back then, people like Barbara Tuchman, who you wouldn't know, Saul Bellow, the novelist, they all endorsed the book.

Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar

It was once considered a national bestseller but was later described as a hoax by Norman Finkelstein after careful examination of the book's content and internal logic.

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And then as I was doing the research for the doctoral dissertation, I stumbled upon this national bestseller. It had just come out. It was called From Time Immemorial.

— Episode: 11/25/23: Norm Finkelstein GOES OFF: Isr...

Episode: 11/25/23: Norm Finkelstein GOES OFF: Israel, Hilla...

It was once considered a national bestseller but was later described as a hoax by Norman Finkelstein after careful examination of the book's content and internal logic.

"

And then as I was doing the research for the doctoral dissertation, I stumbled upon this national bestseller. It had just come out. It was called From Time Immemorial.

And it was heaped with praise. And this was the book, it was said, that was going to change our understanding of the whole conflict.

I was able to demonstrate that this national bestseller, which the whole Jewish intelligentsia class had heaped praise on, the book was a hoax.

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