For a few days there, I was concerned for Shlomo Sand. The new study about Jewish genetic links refutes – as have previous studies which Sand ignored or dismissed – a key thesis in his...
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Should Shlomo Sand offer a refund on his book now that another study has refuted it?
Shlomo Sand has been discussed on these pages before. However, his book still garnered immense attention, at least one very prestigious prize, a place on some bestseller lists, translation into...
East Jerusalem Shabbat
The Hurva Synagogue has been rebuilt in the Old City of Jerusalem. The Old City is part of what is meant by “east Jerusalem” when people claim it belongs to the Palestinians. The Old City...
Shlomo Sand is Angry at His Critics
Ooooh, the man is really angry. Shlomo Sand (also known as Shlomo Zand) is angry that historians like Simon Schama have critiqued his work unfavorably. Does he bother to refute their claims? No, he...
Shlomo Sand Excoriated for Shoddy History Once Again
This is getting to be such a bad habit. This time it’s the Guardian – no particular friend of Israel, this publication – which has a London Rabbi, Jonathan Wittenberg, review the...
An Archaeological Hannukah
Leave it to the colonialist Israel Antiquities Authority (the vaunted IAA) to continue to play a role in the formation and enactment of Israel’s colonial-national historical imagination by...
Shlomo Sand Ridiculed by Historian Simon Schama
Some of you may recall our celebration of French journalistic standards which permitted “The Invention of the Jewish People,” a sad, ideologically bent book by Shlomo Sand to win the...
The French Love a Good Anti-Zionist, Socialist Book
They especially love it when it’s written by an anti-Zionist, Socialist Israeli professor. Ha’aretz reports that Shlomo Sand, a Tel Aviv University history professor has won the...