This essay, on the history of ostracism of Jewish supporters of the Palestinian people, was published in the Observer on 11 February 2024 under the headline “Denouncing critics of Israel as ‘un-Jews’ or antisemites is a perversion of history”. William Zuckerman was born in 1885 in the Pale of Settlement, that part of the Russian empire to which Jews were largely confined, a place of poverty and pogroms. His family managed to escape, emigrating to America in 1900. During the First World […]

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