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Memories of a promised land


Photo of Mike MarquseeMike Marqusee


describes himself as a "deracinated New York Marxist Jew"

For many years Zionists claimed that the Palestinians had left voluntarily, at the behest of Arab leaders

That myth has been repeatedly disproved: there’s no evidence of so much as a single broadcast or leaflet telling people to abandon their homes

Zionists used the war to alter the demographic facts
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the notion that the State of Israel could be both “Jewish” and “democratic” was unsustainable

anti-Zionism was a Jewish ideology long before it was anything else

The roots of that crisis lay in the refusal of the US, Britain and other countries to admit large numbers of displaced persons

The right of refuge is a universal right

Western powers

demanding that a people who bore no responsibility for the Holocaust make way for its victims

The Jewish state remains incompatible with Palestinian rights

Zionism will not tolerate any meaningful form of Palestinian independence

expansionist claims

are commonplace