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“Historic Palestine” is an erroneously used term when discussing the Arab-Israeli conflict, supposedly referring to a nation that existed in the past.

Just yesterday, my brother from another mother Thanitweeted He has a point. And as if on cue, a reader tip alerted me to the Wikipedia definition of “Zionism” Zionism (Hebrew: צִיּוֹנוּת‎ Tsiyyonut [tsijoˈnut] after Zion) is both an ideology and nationalist movement among the Jewish people that espouses the re-establishment of and support for a Jewish state centered in the area roughly corresponding to Canaan, the Holy Land, or the region of Palestine, but whose borders as the...

Creative Commons Professor Moshe Brawer, Israel Prize laureate, founder of the Department of Geography and former Dean of the Faculty of Humanities at Tel Aviv University, and considered by many to be the father of modern Israeli geography, passed away on Monday at the age of 101. Brawer’s life work was writing and editing the atlases used by generations of Israeli students and which were often called the Brawer Atlas. Brawer was born in Vienna in 1919 and immigrated with his family to Jerus...