Hanan Ashrawi - Criticism

Criticism

In the September 2, 2012 issues of the Huffington Post and Jerusalem Post, columnist David Harris in his article Hanan Ashrawi Is to Truth What Smoking Is to Health quipped that Ashrawi "has just earned a gold medal in historical revisionism" for asserting "there were no Jewish refugees from Arab countries. Instead, according to her, there were only 'emigrants' who left their ancestral homes voluntarily. Jews were not singled out for persecution, and if they were, it was, in reality, a plot by 'Zionists'."

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