Paul Craig Cobb, a modern day Ben Gurion

Today the NY Times published an article documenting a white supremacist buying up property in North Dakota to create a colony where white supremacy would be practiced and promoted free of interference; a safe haven for racism to thrive. Current residents are understandably worried.

Yet, this idea of creating a colony for one group to reign supreme by buying up land has worked wonderfully well in another place and it has moved on from buying land to simply taking it away from others. The United States backs the project with billions yearly and full protection by veto in the United Nation. This supremacist project is called the State of Israel.

Rashid Khalidi on Ben Gurion's 1937 letter

What is called the Israeli narrative on the history of Palestine would have us believe that Arabs fled from the area when Zionist Jews came; that the indigenous people were scared and left voluntarily. The Zionists did not want to expel those who lived in the area they wished to make a Jewish state but, once the Arabs were gone took advantage of the situation.

This is fiction. What has decisively laid it to rest among knowledgeable people has been the work of those who are called the "new historians" of Israel. Benny Morris and Ilan Pappé are two. It is a comment on the favoritism toward the work of Jewish scholars on Palestinian issues that the truth was not accepted from the people who were subject to the mass expulsion, nor from Arab scholars.

In this video from the Palestinian Studies TV, Professor Khalidi of Columbia University addresses the issue of what David Ben Gurion (considered the father of Israel) himself said about the expulsion of Arabs in a letter he wrote to his son in 1937 which contradicts claims that expulsion was not on the agenda. Khalidi also touches on other subjects related to the American discourse on Palestine. This video was prompted by the pro-Israel organization CAMERA claiming that Ilan Pappé had misrepresented the Ben Gurion letter.