P F Tinmore
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"...I assert that there is not a Jewish nation. The members of my family, for instance, who have been in this country for generations, have no sort or kind of community of view or of desire with any Jewish family in any other country beyond the fact that they profess to a greater or less degree the same religion. It is no more true to say that a Jewish Englishman and a Jewish Moor are of the same nation than it is to say that a Christian Englishman and a Christian Frenchman are of the same nation..."
This reflected the majority view amongst Jewish people in 1917.
Even if this is true (and I do not believe in any way that it is) -- so what? How does this apply to solving the conflict today? Except to try to deny or erase the Jewish people?
Should we take the majority view of the Arabs and say that there were no such thing as Palestinians in 1917, therefore Palestinians don't exist and have no rights?
Except to try to deny or erase the Jewish people?
Nobody in the BDS movement is saying anything about "erasing" the Jews. The whole movement is for equal rights for all.