RE: Joan Peters and From Time Immemorial, who I have quoted also until it became painfully clear that her research was flawed and the information was obviously promoting the Israeli right-wing anti-Palestinian position. Jews may have once been victims in Nazi Germany, but they are no longer victims and there is no excuse for former victims to victimize anyone else.
Hank Roth ************************************* Among those praising the book upon its publication were Barbara Tuchman (who called the notion of the Palestinian people �a fairy tale�), Theodore H. White, and Martin Peretz, among many others. Positive reviews were published in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the New Republic, and Commentary, among many other newspapers, magazines, and journals, and Peters received the National Jewish Book Award for her work. However, not long after being showered with congratulations, Peters, who is not a historian and who had not previously written anything more substantive than articles for general interest magazines, watched as critics and historians meticulously documented her distortions, exaggerations, selective omissions, falsehoods, and general mendacity. Critical and highly detailed analyses of From Time Immemorial were soon published in The Nation, In These Times, the New York Review of Books, the London Review of Books, and London�s Observer. The issuance of the book in paperback in 1986 had the same effect, albeit with an interesting twist. By 1986, the criticism was merciless and broad-based. In one of the most widely discussed �second-look� reviews, Yehoshua Porath, the Israeli historian, writing in the New York Review of Books, attacked the book with unusual ferocity. His conclusion warrants repeating at length: http://www.adelaideinstitute.org/Beauty/lies.htm THE REHABILITATION OF JOAN PETERS Discredited Author Finds a New Audience http://rittenhouse.blogspot.com/2002_06_16_rittenhouse_archive.html ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Make a clean sweep of pop-up ads. Yahoo! Companion Toolbar. Now with Pop-Up Blocker. Get it for free! http://us.click.yahoo.com/L5YrjA/eSIIAA/yQLSAA/XgSolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> ----- / o o \ ===OO=====OO============================================= (4)Portals (2)News Wikis (2)Conferences - No BuSHIT! Start here: http://pnews.org/ (On Internet since 1982) http://pnews.org/PhpWiki/ (West Coast News Wiki) http://g0lem.net/PhpWiki/ (East Coast News Wiki) ========================================================= FIGHT THE RIGHT! ================== Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rhetoric-list/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
