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created a standard to separate legitimate criticism of Israeli policies from antisemitism, and this framework was adopted by the US Department of State in 2010. It is called the 3D test: Delegitimize, Demonize, Double Standard.

After the Balfour Declaration, Ben-Gurion switched his allegiance from the Turks to the British. He joined the British Army’s Jewish Legion and fought with the British against the Turks in the Palestine Campaign. Though he continued working with Poalei Zion, he also launched his own political party, Achdut Ha’avoda (“Unity of Labor”), composed most

Said’s book became canonical in many Middle East Studies departments, pressuring students and professors to prove they were not Orientalists. Israel’s history was subjected to withering revisionism.

Dr. Schanzer describes a head-spinning web of financial and personal connections between BDS and supporters of terrorism.

THE MIZRACHI “REVOLUTION,” JUST beginning in the 1970s, would affect much more than the music industry. Israeli political life, too, was about to undergo a seismic shift. The Mizrachim had long lived under the thumb of Arab majorities. They came to Israel when their host countries pressured or forced them to leave. Often expelled without most of th

David Gruen, who later changed his name to David Ben-Gurion, had been born in 1886 in the small town Plonsk (now in Poland but then part of the Russian Empire). Like many early Zionist leaders, he had been raised in a religious family committed to both secular studies and to Zionism. As a young child, he witnessed his father’s hosting Hovevei Zion