I am not sure how authoritative Peter's book is.....I think there's been a lot of taking apart of inaccuracies in it. Nonetheless, overall your summary is accurate. Zionists didn't conquer "Palestine" after the Exodus and expel the ancestors of todays self identified "Palestinians" Zionists didn't Kill or believe they'd killed the "Prophet Isa" the "first Palestinian martyr." The Arabian Muslim invasion settled large areas. They lived off taxes imposed on Jews and Christians living in this newly acquired land for Islam. So they actually needed them around. So it's very possible that many people now Muslim Arabs were in past centuries...NOT ARABS or Muslim...but Jews and Christians. I've seen a much longer list of origins of "Palestinian" family names showing places other than "Palestine." Ottoman Empire settled Bosnians and Circassians. Moroccans settled the now demolished Mughrabi quarter abutting the Western Wall with a small dingy alley for Jewish prayer. Jews have always returned in such numbers that could survive. Bokharans, Yemini, Kurdish Jews as well as the Ashkenazim. Well before the Zionist movement gave muscle to Jewish rights and aspirations. Martin Gilbert has provide a map with other atrocities against Jews before the 19th century in the Muslim world. The list here provides new info for me. Bernard Lewis famously wrote, things were never as bad for Jews in Muslim countries as in Christendom and also NEVER as GOOD. Jews were emancipated by French and British rule. NO wonder they were loyal to the colonial administrations. And adopted French in many cases. There is a lot of mythologizing and ahistoricity in current Mid East instruction. ONE ...that no Jewish "people" exist. So they can scream "go back to Poland" to us! And now it will only get worse with such as Boston introducing "Palestine" studies for HS? IS? PRE school? Not American studies....and certainly not Jewish studies. Any one who peruses a current HS history text will see large units on the African Kingdoms and how advanced they were. How advanced were the Mezo American civilizations. A large unit on Islamic civilization and its many advancements. Barely a word about the Jewish civilization. And Jews as foreign Europeans descending upon little "Palestine." (A literature text for college students but used in an advanced NYC HS has very political nationalist anti Zionist poems to represent "Palestine" For Israel the offering is ONE very apolitical poem. ) I wasn't required to teach these nor did I.
Probably more about Australian Aborigine culture than anything about Jewish contributions to world culture and contributors to Islamic and European Christians civilizations. No, I don't see much hope in anything being done to correct how universities or secondary schools teach Zionism ....professors locked armed to prevent police from entering the pro hamas student encampments and denounced such as Shafik of Columbia after she belatedly HAD to let in Police after Hamiliton hall was violently taken over. And the police on UCLA...denounced. They teach and create these pro Palestine , virulently anti Zionist and antisemitic curriculums. That some are Jews doesn't help our cause. So we live in Orwellian times.
Very useful resource! Look forward to the longer piece...
I am not sure how authoritative Peter's book is.....I think there's been a lot of taking apart of inaccuracies in it. Nonetheless, overall your summary is accurate. Zionists didn't conquer "Palestine" after the Exodus and expel the ancestors of todays self identified "Palestinians" Zionists didn't Kill or believe they'd killed the "Prophet Isa" the "first Palestinian martyr." The Arabian Muslim invasion settled large areas. They lived off taxes imposed on Jews and Christians living in this newly acquired land for Islam. So they actually needed them around. So it's very possible that many people now Muslim Arabs were in past centuries...NOT ARABS or Muslim...but Jews and Christians. I've seen a much longer list of origins of "Palestinian" family names showing places other than "Palestine." Ottoman Empire settled Bosnians and Circassians. Moroccans settled the now demolished Mughrabi quarter abutting the Western Wall with a small dingy alley for Jewish prayer. Jews have always returned in such numbers that could survive. Bokharans, Yemini, Kurdish Jews as well as the Ashkenazim. Well before the Zionist movement gave muscle to Jewish rights and aspirations. Martin Gilbert has provide a map with other atrocities against Jews before the 19th century in the Muslim world. The list here provides new info for me. Bernard Lewis famously wrote, things were never as bad for Jews in Muslim countries as in Christendom and also NEVER as GOOD. Jews were emancipated by French and British rule. NO wonder they were loyal to the colonial administrations. And adopted French in many cases. There is a lot of mythologizing and ahistoricity in current Mid East instruction. ONE ...that no Jewish "people" exist. So they can scream "go back to Poland" to us! And now it will only get worse with such as Boston introducing "Palestine" studies for HS? IS? PRE school? Not American studies....and certainly not Jewish studies. Any one who peruses a current HS history text will see large units on the African Kingdoms and how advanced they were. How advanced were the Mezo American civilizations. A large unit on Islamic civilization and its many advancements. Barely a word about the Jewish civilization. And Jews as foreign Europeans descending upon little "Palestine." (A literature text for college students but used in an advanced NYC HS has very political nationalist anti Zionist poems to represent "Palestine" For Israel the offering is ONE very apolitical poem. ) I wasn't required to teach these nor did I.
Probably more about Australian Aborigine culture than anything about Jewish contributions to world culture and contributors to Islamic and European Christians civilizations. No, I don't see much hope in anything being done to correct how universities or secondary schools teach Zionism ....professors locked armed to prevent police from entering the pro hamas student encampments and denounced such as Shafik of Columbia after she belatedly HAD to let in Police after Hamiliton hall was violently taken over. And the police on UCLA...denounced. They teach and create these pro Palestine , virulently anti Zionist and antisemitic curriculums. That some are Jews doesn't help our cause. So we live in Orwellian times.