Palestinian Christian History: An Invented Past?
AlKhoury applies settler colonial theory to the history of Palestinian Christians, which assigns guilt to Israel and casts Palestinians as hapless victims. However, AlKoury fails to meet the most basic standards of academic rigour and historical accuracy.
How Palestinian Academics Inflame and Distort the history of 1948 and the Present
Mansour’s presentation, “Structure of Erasure – Past and Present: Settler Colonialism in Palestine” predictably consisted of a carefully curated one-sided tale of Palestinian victimhood buttressed by cherry picked quotes and devoid of historical or geo-political context.
Palestinian Christian Antizionism: A Series
Two Palestinian academics, Dr Lamma Mansour and Dr Yousef Kamal AlKhoury are currently touring New Zealand for a series of talks, held mostly in Anglican churches, but also in at least one university. They have been presenting one-sided, heavily truncated accounts of the complex Israel-Palestinian conflict. While we acknowledge their right to tell their story, we believe the lack of context and historical depth presents a false, distorted and harmful picture. This is the first in a series of articles that will address these concerns.