Asa Winstanley is an idiot (and an antisemitic piece of trash), part 4/conclusion

Continuing the series showing what an absolute tool Asa Winstanley is based solely on a truly fatuous article he wrote for Middle East Monitor.Winstanley wrote:Prior to the rise of Christianity as the established religion of the Roman Empire, Judaism was very much a proselytising faith. As such, it spread widely all over the Mediterranean basin, into Egypt and further afield....

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Asa Winstanley is an idiot, part 3

Continuing this series of showing what an idiot Asa Winstanley is, based on a single article he published - appropriately enough - on April Fool's Day.As Israeli historian Shlomo Sand describes in his book The Invention of the Land of Israel, before the Zionist movement, Palestine was never viewed by Jewish communities around the world as their homeland.Wow!What does he think...

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Asa Winstanley is an idiot, part 2

Continuing our dissection of the absolutely moronic article published Thursday in Middle East Monitor, written by the Asa Winstanley.He writes:With the rise of Zionism – a European settler-colonial movement founded at the end of the nineteenth century – a new term was invented to describe Palestine: the "Land of Israel". Before then, the word "Israel" had generally been used...

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Asa Winstanley is an idiot, part 1

I saw an astonishingly stupid article at Middle East Memo by Asa Winstanley on Thursday, so I decided to make a series of posts showing how thoroughly ignorant he is.The title of the article is stupid enough: "It is necessary to be an anti-Zionist in order to reject anti-Semitism."But let's go through only some of his specific "factual" claims, skipping his propaganda (like...

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