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This week in Jewish history | Émile Zola accuses French government of covering up mistaken conviction of Dreyfus  13 Jan 2021 share this on On 13 January 1898, novelist Émile Zola wrote an article accusing the French army of covering up its mistaken conviction of French army captain Alfred Dreyfus for allegedly selling military secrets to the Germans. Dreyfus’ trial and the subsequent events related to it are often referred to as the “Dreyfus Affair,” and noted as a turning point in European Jewish and Zionist history.   Dreyfus, the son of a wealthy J...

history, but history cannot change and cannot be falsified. The facts bear witness to it. We have been here for the last 5,000 years, and have not left this land. We have not left this land. Our forefathers are the monotheist Canaanites and Jebusites. They are the ones who built Jerusalem, before Abraham was even here. [emphasis added] Advertisement What drives the Palestinian Arabs in general — and Abbas in particular — to such obvious fabrications? indigenous Jewish connection to Israel. But there is another element. There is the attempt to establish a basis for Palestinian nationalism...