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While the celebrations of Columbus' "discovery" have provoked lively opposition, the Eurocentric framing of the "other 1492" has been little questioned.

— Ella Shohat Rethinking Jews and Muslims: Quincentennial Reflections (1992)

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Zionism, to my mind, can be described as an effort to whiten the Jew philosophically and even literally.

with jadaliyya (2013)

For Middle Easterners, the operating distinction had always been “Muslim,” “Jew” and “Christian,” not Arab versus Jew. The assumption was that “Arabness” referred to a common shared culture and language, albeit with religious differences.

Reflections of an Arab Jew (1991)

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