Fred Maroun: Trump Challenged A 69-Year-Old Lie

Although US President Donald Trump’s behavior has often been unconventional (to put it mildly), receiving well-deserved criticism, his declaration on Jerusalem was a model of diplomacy. He did everything by the book, he called Arab leaders to inform them in advance of what was coming, and he exceeded any expectations that one might have had […]

Is Zionism Under Threat of Redefinition by Non-Jews? (Part 2 of 2)

Maroun complied with Susskind-Sack’s insistence that non-Jews are pro-Zionists and can never be considered Zionists (see Part 1 of this two-part series). According to his latest Times of Israel blog post, he apparently accepted her application of replacement theory to this situation and the contention that non-Jews who call themselves Zionists are out to oust […]

Promoting the “Palestinian” Fallacy

When Arab writers and pro-Israeli activists I respect (or respected in the past), such as Fred Maroun, cry out that the Palestinians exist and we cannot say they do not, they are falling into the trap of promoting the lie. I deny the existence of a nation called Palestine, something that never existed in human […]