Emet News Service

The Genealogy of Ideas is the history of the evolution of thought around any particular subject.  It is part of the larger subfields of Cultural and Intellectual History. However, it touches upon every aspect of the field, such as Social History, Military History, Economic History, etc.. What   read more ...

Two weeks ago, a local New York City Councilman named Kalman Yeger noted on Twitter that "Palestine does not exist." That statement, controversial as it is, is grounded in fact — in the sense that the United Nations Security Council, the only UN body capable of establishing international law   read more ...

Summary ... Why does the Israeli government continue to give credence to the lie that there really is a "Palestinian" people and that "Palestine" was once an actual country? It certainly does not serve the needs of the nation of Israel, except to give weak-kneed politicians a reason for not   read more ...

Summary ... Chief 'Palestinian' negotiator Saeb Erekat, who this past week claimed Palestinian lineage to the Canaanites, is not the first Palestinian to reinvent history. A study of history shows that the roots of present-day Palestinians lie far from here. The noted scholar of nationalist   read more ...

Summary ... The nation of Israel is the only sovereign nation-state that ever existed in the territory known by the geographical designation of "Palestine". Peoples of many origins came into the land at one time, and left it at other times, while nomads wandered in and out. The Jews did not take   read more ...

Summary ... There is a myth hanging over all discussion of the Palestinian problem: the myth that this was Arab land taken from its native inhabitants by invading Jews. As a strictly legal matter, the Jews didn't take Palestine [sic] from the Arabs; they took it from the British, who exercised   read more ...

There is no such thing as a Palestinian Arab nation . . . Palestine is a name the Romans gave to Eretz Yisrael with the express purpose of infuriating the Jews .... Why should we use the spiteful name meant to humiliate us? The British chose to call the land they mandated Palestine, and the Arabs   read more ...