PA’s fake history: The “Zionist narrative” invented “the Jewish people” and colonists linked Jews to Palestine”
Excerpt of an op-ed by General Supervisor of the Official PA Media and General Supervisor of Fatah-run Awdah TV Ahmad Assaf
Headline: “Where the danger of the Jewish [Nation-] State Law lies”
“The wording of the [Jewish Nation-State Law (see note below -Ed.)] with all its clauses, words, and letters – is a most dangerous thing, but the main danger lies… in how it relies on the false Zionist narrative and a project that was formulated by the Anglo-American colonialism at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century. This project began by inventing ‘the Jewish people,’ as many historians have explained, among them Israeli Jews such as Shlomo Sand (i.e., a Tel Aviv University professor whose claims that Jews are an invented people have been thoroughly debunked). Later on, and for the sake of colonialist goals, this people was connected to Palestine through the 1917 Balfour Declaration (see note below -Ed.), in which Britain promised the Zionist movement to establish a national home for the world’s Jews in Palestine…
Let us examine the first clause of this law, and we will see that it says that ‘T he Land of Israel is the historical homeland of the Jewish people, and there it established its state.’ We discern that this project has not made do with falsifying history, but rather has left itself complete flexibility to expand, as it has not determined the borders of the Land of Israel.”