…Take, for example, an awards ceremony at Tel-Aviv U. on Sunday, the presentation of the Dan David Prizes, 3 million dollars divided between eight people. Only, one of the winners boycotted the ceremony and turned down the gift of $300,000 dollars. One Catherine Hall, whom Wikipedia calls a British feminist historian of Modern British Social and Cultural History at University College London. One of her books was entitled Gendered Nations: Nationalisms And Gender Order In The Long Nineteenth Century.  She turned down the award because, as she wrote on Facebook, she had made an “independent political choice, undertaken after many discussions with those who are deeply involved with the politics of Israel-Palestine, but with different views as to how best to act.”

And there you have it: “Israel-Palestine” is a relatively recent addition to the lexicon of antiJew buzz words and catch phrases. It is evidence of the title of my book: a nationality never heard of in history. In Eretz Yisrael, possibly the land with the oldest continuous written history in countless languages in the world, suddenly experiences the emergence an ancient Palestinian people resident in Palestine since the beginning of time, and contemporary antiJews post-Holocaust have their new, legitimate way of hating Jews…