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Opinion: Attempts to redefine Zionism should be firmly rejected

Mira Sucharov offered a very selective version of history in her recent Globe op-ed arguing antisemitism and anti-Zionism shouldn't be conflated

Carleton University Prof. Mira Sucharov’s recent Globe and Mail op-ed — Anti-Zionism And Antisemitism Should Not Be Conflated — suggests that what is most urgently needed is not another debate over the definition of Zionism, but a history lesson. Yet it is Sucharov herself who appears most in need of one.

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She approaches the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through a highly selective account of its history, where Palestinian suffering is presented as the inevitable consequence of the creation of a Jewish state in parts of the Jewish people’s ancient homeland.

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Arab rejection of Jewish self-determination, wars against Israel and repeated efforts to eliminate it are all omitted in the history told by Sucharov. She fails to mention that in 1947, when the United Nations proposed the creation of a Jewish and Arab state in Mandatory Palestine, Jewish leaders accepted the proposal while Arab leaders rejected it.

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