Lester Golden
1 min readMay 18, 2024

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In From Time Immemorial Joan Peters wrote the real demographic history of Palestine using the archives of the Public Record Office in London. The only British official to raise the issue of illegal Arab immigration in the 1930s was assassinated and the case never investigated.

Einat Wilf's and Ari Schwarz's The War of Return is real history.

The real history of Arafat walking away from Palestinian statehood and choosing to renew the endless War of Return, is here: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2003/03/24/the-prince-3

My real history of the Muslim world, especially Muslim Spain, is based on: Bernard Lewis, Philip K. Hitti, Amerigo Castro, Yitzhak Baer, S.D. Goitein, Ibn Khaldun, Maimonides, Eliyahu Ashtor, Max Rodenbeck (Cairo, The City Victorious) and many more over a half century of studying the region.

And courses such as The Jews Under Islam and the relations between Jews, Christians and Islamin medieval Spanish history at UCLA with Robert Burns SJ. https://www.historians.org/research-and-publications/perspectives-on-history/may-2009/in-memoriam-robert-i-burns-sj

To paraphrase Sam Giancana in the movie The Good Shepherd: Whaddayougot? (besides restoring Jews to medieval dhimmitude's persecution, pogroms and Jizya extortion).

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Lester Golden

From Latvia & Porto I write to share learning from an academic&business life in 8 languages in 5 countries & seeing fascism die in Portugal&Spain in1974 & 1976.