In taking this stance, he has won the approval of the besiegers and assured himself visiting professorships and invitations to lecture on campuses beyond the threatened shores of Israel.
Eagerness to jettison an identity under attack and to reap the concomitant benefits is a powerful impetus to a perversion of values such as Pappe’s. It would behoove the observer of his assertions and those of similar extreme Israeli or Jewish detractors of Israel to check the facts and consider the motives.
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