BETWEEN THE LINES: Will Israel Remain A Jewish State? On eve of Independence Day, a backlash to the post-Zionist effort to de-Judaize the country.

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BETWEEN THE LINES: Will Israel Remain A Jewish State? On eve of Independence Day, a backlash to the post-Zionist effort to de-Judaize the country.

GARY ROSENBLATT

EDITOR AND PUBLISHER

With increasing attention being paid to the anti-Israel nastiness of Palestinian textbooks, and amid demands that the curriculum be overhauled, consider the following comments about Israel from a prominent academic: "the garbage heap of Europe," a "site of experiments ... in ethnic cleansing," and "a regime that produces and distributes evil systematically."

What's surprising is that the academic in question is ...

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