Book · 1985 · History
From Time Immemorial
The Origins of the Arab-Jewish Conflict Over Palestine
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And while writing the doctoral dissertation, there was a book that came out way before your time. It was called From Time Immemorial, and the major thesis of the book was that Palestine was empty.
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I remember when I was a young man and I read the book from time immemorial which claimed that Palestine hadn't been that Palestine was empty on the eve of Jewish colonization and then all these Arabs from neighboring countries sneaked into Palestine and claimed to be indigenous to the land and the book was a national bestseller and everybody.
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From Time Immemorial by Joan Peters is a controversial 1984 book that argued Palestine was largely empty before Jewish colonization and that Arab populations arrived later. On The Tucker Carlson Show, Norman Finkelstein discussed the text, explaining its central thesis that Palestine lacked an indigenous population before outlining how he later exposed the work as a hoax. A similar sentiment was echoed on Breaking Points, where the host recalled reading the book as a young man and eventually realizing that its claims regarding Palestinian demographics were completely fabricated. Finkelstein also appeared on Candace, where he characterized the publication as a big national bestseller that purported to prove Israel was in the right and Palestinians in the wrong, before reiterating that he later proved the book was fraudulent. Across these programs, speakers utilized the historical controversy surrounding the text to examine propaganda, historical narratives, and the broader politics of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in public discourse over several decades.
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Norman Finkelstein Then in 1984, there was a kind of big national bestseller quote from Time in Memorial which claimed to reve… 2
“And while writing the doctoral dissertation, there was a book that came out way before your time. It was called From Time Immemorial, and the major thesis of the book was that Palestine was empty.”
“Then in 1984, there was a kind of big national bestseller quote from Time in Memorial which claimed to reveal new aspects of the Israel Palestine conflict that proved Israel was in the right and the Palestinians were in the wrong.”
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“I remember when I was a young man and I read the book from time immemorial which claimed that Palestine hadn't been that Palestine was empty on the eve of Jewish colonization and then all these Arabs from neighboring countries sneaked into Palestine and claimed to be indigenous to the land and the book was a national bestseller and everybody”
