A good article by Ussama M aqdisi, the author of Age of Coexistence: The Ecumenical Frame and the Making of the Modern Arab World “Philo-Zionism relies on two pillars. These include a generalised western view that Israel’s creation is a just and moral recompense for the history of European antisemitism that culminated with the Holocaust; and the consistent racist demonisation of Israel’s opponents as non-western barbarians of a peculiar antisemitic type. The entire ethical edifice of an inward-looking, Eurocentric, post-war western humanism - its museums of remembrance, its discourse of tolerance and reflection, and its obsessive grappling with its own antisemitic past - is ultimately built on the backs of native Palestinians, who were chased out of their homes and also out of history . Palestinian resistance - including “terrorism” - has consistently been decontextualised, and depicted as irrational and immoral by western powers and mainstream m...