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Edward Wadie Said [a] (1 November 1935 – 24 September 2003) was a Palestinian-American academic, literary critic, and political activist. [1] As a professor of literature at Columbia University, he was among the founders of post-colonial studies. [2]
Demands for Israel to not enter into Gaza and defeat Hamas during Operation Pillar of Defense are characterized by David Schwartz as a "delegitimization of Israel's right to defend itself." [46] Tzipi Livni said that "the threat of delegitimization intensifies other threats facing Israel, and limits our ability to protect ourselves." [47]
In one sense she was right. There was no Palestine in the Western sense of a nation-state and no Palestinian people in the Western sense of a national group taking explicit possession of and improving its national territory. By Western definition, Palestinians, like many other native peoples around the world, did not exist. [3]
People applying for naturalization in Germany will now be required to affirm Israel’s right to exist, under changes to the country’s citizenship law.. The legislation, which came into effect ...
To them, Israel has no legitimate claim to the land of Israel/Palestine. This flies in the face of facts. For nearly 3,000 years, Jews have lived in Israel/Palestine and throughout the Middle East ...
Less than a century after the incineration of 6 million Jews, their right to exist as a people, religion, and state is once again in question.After the pogrom of Oct. 7, the survival of the Jews ...
In this essay, Said aims to address a distinct lack of discussion on Zionism (i.e., Jewish nationalism, the official ideology of Israel) from the perspective of the Palestinian Arabs. [1] Though it was compiled decades ago, it has remained relevant in academic discourse due to the ongoing failure of the Israeli–Palestinian peace process . [ 3 ]
Palestinianism is a term occasionally used to denote either the national political movement or Identity of the Palestinian people. [1] [2] It gained currency by its use in the works of Edward Said to describe a certain vein of theology opposed to Christian Zionism and that challenges Zionism and the right of Israel to exist.