AICE Update: Are Palestinians descendants of the Canaanites?
American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise Weekly Update
Myths & Facts
Are Palestinians descendants of the Canaanites?
Palestinian claims to be related to the Canaanites are a recent phenomenon and contrary to historical evidence. The Canaanites disappeared three millennia ago and, over the last two thousand years, there have been massive invasions (e.g., the Crusades, migrations, the plague, and other manmade or natural disasters that killed off most of the local people. The entire local population has been replaced many times over. During the British Mandate alone, more than 100,000 emigrated from neighboring countries and are today considered Palestinians.
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Mitchell Bard in The Times of Israel
The More Things Change... Textbook Bias
CAMERA recently published a monograph on biased textbooks in high schools in Newton, MA, and an article on the textbook issue quoted Dr. Sandra Alfonsi, founder of Hadassah's "Curriculum Watch," asserting that "there is no doubt the lack of sympathy for Israel on college campuses today is at least partly the result of several generations of teenagers being educated with textbooks that are slanted against Israel." This discussion of textbooks brought back memories of the past and how we are still fighting the same battles we did decades ago.
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Podcast
Proto-Mizrahim: Oriental Jews and Arabs in pre-state Israel
Dr. Abigail Jacobson, a Middle East historian and Academic Director of the Mediterranean Neighbors unit at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, and Dr. Moshe Naor of the department of Israel Studies at the University of Haifa, discuss their co-authored book Oriental Neighbors: Middle Eastern Jews and Arabs in Mandatory Palestine, which explores the interactions - at times cooperative and at others confrontational - between Arabs and Jews of Middle Eastern descent in British-ruled Palestine.
Video
The Gazan boy that Israel gave the ability to hear