At Camp David in 2000, Yasser Arafat told Dennis Ross, President Bill Clinton’s chief Middle East negotiator, that no Jewish Temple had ever stood in the Land of Israel. Ross, taken aback, warned Arafat not to say frivolous things to the president of the United States. At the time, claims like this—that Jews might be colonists in their own ancestral homeland—lived only on the wildest fringes of Western discourse and were regularly dismissed as absurd. But just two decades later, in the aftermath of Hamas’s October 7 attack, these once-fringe assertions have moved into the mainstream, shaping campus protests, driving media narratives, and animating our public discourse with divisive falsehoods.
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