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These days, we hear numerous specious complaints of "cultural appropriation", often connected to a celebrity perceived to be in the wrong.
But when there's real cultural appropriation, such as the Palestinian Authority's recent bid to erase Jewish history in Jericho, those who are usually so vocal fall silent.
In fact, the Palestinian Authority's latest attempt to claim that Jericho is actually called Tell es-Sultan and is in 'Palestine' is worse than cultural appropriation: it's outright falsification of history and ethnic erasure of the Jews.
As Robert Williams explains in the above article, Jericho was built long before any Arab and/or Muslim ever arrived in the land. In fact, Jericho is older than the Jews too. To give an Arabic name that has no historical connection with the site is clearly a political decision, and UNESCO has fine form with putting politics ahead of historical facts.
In the past, UNESCO has falsely attributed Jewish holy sites to the Palestinians and to Islam. Consequently, the United States withdrew from UNESCO under the Trump administration. Biden has returned to it to counter Chinese influence, a statement that only reveals just how compromised UNESCO has become.
As I have said many times before, the reason for Palestinian falsification and erasure of Jewish history is simple: countless pieces of archaeological evidence prove that the Jews had a national homeland in Israel, which was only relinquished temporarily due to foreign invasion. The historical record shows consistent resettlements of Jews throughout the land ever since the last great expulsion of 70 CE.
This is why the Jews are the sole people with a national entitlement in Israel, a fact that was affirmed at the San Remo conference in 1920 and later by the League of Nations. This right never prevented Arabs from living in Mandatory Palestine (or even from having a state in some parts of it), but it did confer on the British Empire a responsibility to settle the Jews.
Despite the lies of Mahmoud Abbas at the United Nations this year, the British Empire actually reneged on that obligation in favour of the Arabs. Most of Mandatory Palestine became Jordan, and Jews were restricted from purchasing housing in most of the tiny remainder. (Hence the increasing militancy of Zionist groups in the 1940s, fighting against the White Paper.)
The 1947 Partition Resolution would have granted Arabs sovereignty in the majority of the western part of the Mandate, effectively creating two states for them. But the Arabs rejected this, with the Arab Secretary General at the time threatening a monumental massacre of the Jews in response.
All of this historical background is crucial, as it demonstrates the malevolent deceit of the Palestinian Authority today. Without acknowledging the multiple opportunities it has had for a Palestinian State, the dictatorship pursues an inherently racial annihilationist goal of erasing all Jewish history from the land by seeking international validation for anti-historical lies.
And the feckless political merchants at UNESCO continue to accept this strategy, a strategy that is applied to no other ethnic and national group.
I hope that anyone with a conscience at UNESCO will reject this latest attempt at anti-Jewish ethnic erasure by the Palestinian Authority, but after their previous, hallucinatory decisions, I am not holding my breath.
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New archaeological evidence has allowed scientists to refine the timeline for the Viking presence in North America.
Pieces of wood scarred with cut marks have been precisely dated to the year 1021 CE – exactly 1,000 years ago – and the metal tools that made those marks were not produced by the indigenous population, according to a team of archaeologists led by the University of Groningen in the Netherlands.
Vikings, however, did make and use metal tools, and were known to have settled at the archaeological site of L'Anse aux Meadows, where the wood was found.
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