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Joseph Andoni Massad (born 1963) is an American Associate Professor of Modern Arab Politics and Intellectual History at Columbia University, whose academic work has focused on Palestinian, Jordanian, and Israeli nationalism as well as representations of sexual desire in the Arab world.
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Let us imagine a world where the majority of Israeli and diaspora Jews and their gentile supporters are no longer committed to Jewish supremacy.
Israel insisted on freezing the moment at which the holocaust survivors became such.
Since its emergence on the international scene, the PLO has always distinguished between Zionists and Jews.
The Gay International and its activities are largely responsible for the intensity of this repressive campaign.
Deutscher, it would seem, never stopped to consider that European Jews could have still fled as refugees without becoming colonists.
The only thing threatening Jews is its [Israel's] commitment to Apartheid and its racist people.
Moreover, the lie that the film propagates claiming that I would equate Israel with Nazi Germany is abhorrent. I have never made such a reprehensible equation.
All those in the Arab world who deny the Jewish holocaust are in my opinion Zionists.
Such a Zionist scenario misses the fact that the majority of American Jews are so assimilated into "whiteness" that they are no longer Jews, religiously or culturally, except by name.
The PLO has accepted this burden of vigilance. It has always made a point of demonstrating its sympathy with the Jewish victims of the holocaust and in condemning the Nazi regime.
Anti-Semitism is alive and well today worldwide and its major victims are Arabs and Muslims and no longer Jews.
Israeli Jewish society in Israel, as well as the Israeli leadership, continues to uphold Jewish supremacy as sacrosanct and non-negotiable.
Moreover, although Israel’s Jewish character was never part of the negotiations, it has always been made explicit that transforming Israel into a non-Jewish (read non-racist) state is not pragmatic.
The Jews are not a nation... The Jewish state is a racist state that does not have a right to exist.
What is it about the nature of Zionism, its racism, and its colonial policies that continues to escape the understanding of many European intellectuals on the left?
No matter how much Zionism continues to resurrect it and claim it as the excuse for its racist violence against the Palestinians, the holocaust does not justify Israel's racist nature.
What is at stake for the authors of these proposals, and of many others, is Israel’s maintenance of its Jewish supremacist character (dubbed its 'Jewish character').
While Wiesel assailed the silence of the world about the Jewish holocaust throughout his career, he required that Jew and gentile alike remain silent about Israeli oppression of the Palestinians.
[I]t is the very discourse of the Gay International which produces homosexuals, as well as gays and lesbians, where they do not exist.
Norman Finkelstein's The Holocaust Industry is a short but important and necessary addendum that advances important critiques of Novick and makes its own contribution to the debate by discussing aspects that Novick did not include.