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Israel & the Intellectuals: A Failure of Nerve?

- Abstract

If Israel rather than the Arabs is to be declared the violator of the rights of others and the villainous perpetrator of the region’s refugee problem, what needs to be done is to erase all geographic and historical
perspective. And this is indeed where t



About the Author

Ruth R. Wisse is the Martin Peretz professor of Yiddish and professor of comparative literature at Harvard. She is the author most recently of Jews and Power (Nextbook/Schocken).