The storming of propaganda about Israel and Zionism with their undercurrent of Jew-hatred falls into several areas. There is Arab-Islamist rejectionism of recognizing any Jewish national identity. This has expanded to the erasing of Jewish history as regards the relationship of Jews to their national homeland over the past 3,000 years.
The continuum of the presence of the Jews in this land, even under foreign domination, repression, and, as during a period of Ottoman rule an outright ban on immigrating to the country, is generally almost unknown. Somehow, the meme that Zionism began in the 19th century among European Jews has reached a level of an undeniable catechism.
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