How the Idea of Palestine Escaped the Middle East and Took Over the International Left
What young American Jews are failing to understand.
July 2, 2024
What young American Jews are failing to understand.
In an essay published last fall, Hussein Aboubakr explained how the story of the Nakba has been adopted by one generation after another of Arab revolutionaries as a tool to advance their respective visions of the Middle East. Now, he argues, the meaning of the Palestinian cause has mutated again, leaving the bounds of the Middle East completely. The evidence can be seen on American college campuses:
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Down and out in London and Paris.
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