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It is hardly surprising that Drew Forrest (Israel’s ‘settler logic of elimination’, Mail & Guardian, 24 October 2024) chooses Ilan Pappe and Shlomo Sand to delegitimise — or at least attempt to delegitimise — the Jewish state. One polemicist recognises others. Forrest also signals his intentions by excavating the work of Ze’ev Herzog, a revisionist Israeli archaeologist who has challenged the historicity of the Bible. Nothing new in this. In fact…
