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Article: Why the new historians really are anti-Zionists
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- Jerusalem Post
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- January 6, 1995
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DAVID BAR-ILLAN
Jerusalem Post
01-06-1995
READER Dan Leon of Jerusalem writes:
"David Bar-Illan's 'Eye on the Media' column seeks out alleged inaccuracies in the way the media covers Israel and Zionism.
"I suggest that he re-reads what he himself wrote on December 9: 'Israel's "new historians" - a euphemism for what used to be known as plain, ordinary anti-Zionists.'
"This misleading generalization is surely either a slip of the pen or a slip of judgment: Benny Morris, for example, one of the best known new historians, is a self-proclaimed Zionist who criticizes many aspects of the realization of Zionism. If that makes him an anti-Zionist, the question is - according to what criteria?
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