The Invention of the Land of Israel - Book launch with Professor Shlomo Sand. Zionism Was a British Creation

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The Invention of the Land of Israel - Book launch with Professor Shlomo Sand. Zionism Was a British Creation

Frontline Club Talks 2-19-2013
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[PDF] [EPUB] The Invention of the Land of Israel: From Holy Land to Homeland Direct Download at bottom of page:
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https://oceanofpdf.com/authors/shlomo-sand/pdf-epub-the-invention-of-the-land-of-israel-from-holy-land-to-homeland-download/
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(It starts getting more interesting at the 20 minute mark)
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Professor Shlomo Sand: "The idea of Zionism did not begin in Judaism. It was a British INVENTION."
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Zionism was a Creation of Lord Shaftesbury. A land without a people, a people without a land was Not Jewish, it was BRITISH...
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See the 29 minute mark:
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HISTORICAL PROOF OF THESE CLAIMS
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In 1991 Adam Garfinkle attributed the phrase to Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury in 1853. [ Garfinkle, Adam M., “On the Origin, Meaning, Use and Abuse of a Phrase.” Middle Eastern Studies, London, Oct. 1991, vol. 27 ] 
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https://en-academic.com/dic.nsf/enwiki/8150269
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Historical context
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In 1831 the Ottomans were driven from Greater Syria (including Palestine) by an expansionist Egypt, in the First Turko-Egyptian War. Colonial Britain (worried by the prospect of a rising military power sitting atop Suez and the route to India, and by the prospect of a weakened Ottoman Empire allowing Russia access to the Dardanelles) sent the Navy, which bombarded Beirut and in 1841 anchored in Alexandria harbor, forcing Egypt to withdraw from the Levant. At the time Keith coined this phrase, there was no effective government in the Levant. Keith wrote his book to urge the British government to “give Judea to the Jews. [Alexander Keith, The Land of Israel According to the Covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob (Edinburgh: William Whyte and Co., 1843), p. 43.]
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The lead-up to the Crimean War (1854), like the military expansionism of Muhammad Ali two decades earlier, signaled an opening for political rearrangements in the Near East. In July 1853, Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury wrote to Prime Minister Aberdeen that Greater Syria was “a country without a nation” in need of “a nation without a country… Is there such a thing? To be sure there is, the ancient and rightful lords of the soil, the Jews!” In his diary that year he wrote “these vast and fertile regions will soon be without a ruler, without a known and acknowledged power to claim dominion. The territory must be assigned to some one or other… There is a country without a nation; and God now in his wisdom and mercy, directs us to a nation without a country.” [Shaftsbury as cited in Hyamson, Albert, “British Projects for the Restoration of Jews to Palestine,” American Jewish Historical Society, Publications 26, 1918 p. 140] Garfinkle, Adam M., “On the Origin, Meaning, Use and Abuse of a Phrase.” Middle Eastern Studies, London, Oct. 1991, vol. 27]
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FAIR USE FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES
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If Jews, after 2000 years have the Right to Claim the Land of Palestine, why don't the Native Americans have the Right to Claim America? Or the Mongolians to Reclaim the Empire of Genghis Khan? The entire concept is Preposterous...
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Professor Shlomo Sand dispels the Myth of Zionism and the Idea of a Jewish Palestinian Homeland. The Modern Day Belief in a State of Israel is a Modern Day Construct and did not exist until the Zionist Political Movement began.
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The Jewish Scriptures even FORBIDS the formation of a Jewish State or Reclaiming Jerusalem UNTIL THE JEWISH MESSIAH COMES.
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Just like in his First book: "The Invention of the Jewish People*" Professor Sand Destroys Any Argument for the Historical Basis for the Modern Claim that Jews as a Single Race, or the Idea of Israel as the Rightful Jewish Homeland...
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Professor Shlomo Sand - Professor Donald Sassoon - Sir Geoffrey Bindman -
Frontline Club
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This event is organised by Verso Books and Independent Jewish Voices, and is dedicated to Eric Hobsbawm.
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What is a homeland and when does it become a national territory? Why have so many people been willing to die for such places throughout the twentieth century? What is the essence of the Promised Land?
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Join Shlomo Sand and a panel with historian Donald Sassoon and human rights lawyer Geoffrey Bindman to discuss the mysterious sacred land that has become the site of the longest-running national struggle of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
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Following the acclaimed and controversial The Invention of the Jewish People, Sand's pioneering new work The Invention of the Land of Israel deconstructs the age-old legends surrounding the Holy Land and the prejudices that continue to suffocate it.
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The Invention of the Land of Israel dissects the concept of "historical right" and tracks the creation of the modern concept of the "Land of Israel" by nineteenth-century Evangelical Protestants and Jewish Zionists. This invention, he argues, not only facilitated the colonization of the Middle East and the establishment of the State of Israel; it is also threatening the existence of the Jewish state today.
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The Panel: Professor Shlomo Sand studied history at the University of Tel Aviv and at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales, in Paris. He currently teaches contemporary history at the University of Tel Aviv. His books include The Invention of the Jewish People, On the Nation and the Jewish People.
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Professor Donald Sassoon is Professor of Comparative European History at Queen Mary College, University of London. He received his PhD, supervised by Eric Hobsbawm, from Birkbeck College.
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His books include One Hundred Years of Socialism and The Culture of the Europeans: 1800 to the present.
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Sir Geoffrey Bindman QC (Hon) founded Bindmans in 1974 and throughout his long and distinguished legal career, has specialised in civil liberty and human rights issues. He is a Visiting Professor of Law at University College London and at London South Bank University, an Honorary Fellow in Civil Legal Process at the University of Kent, and a Fellow of the Society of Advanced Legal Studies

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