CHE Fires Writer for Non-PC Thought

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I know of Middle East departments where faux history required students accept that the current-day Palestinians are the descendants of the Philistines.

It doesn't get any stupider than that.

The name Palestine is likely from the name Philistine but there was over 1,000 year gap from the last Philistine to the first Arab.

There is a large school of thought, myself included, that places the development of a Palestinian people to post 1967. Prior to 1918 there was a large population of Arabs from the Arabian Peninsula to Suez to the Mediterranean to Turkey to Persia who considered themselves one people. National labels were meaningless. Probably still are.

Everybody either laughs or has a heart attack when considering Nazis and their preposterous mythologies proposing fantasy genealogies back from the time of Atlantis. Yet so many do the same in various ways and it is considered nothing less than charming. The Arab who can trace his family line back to Amenophis I of Egypt; the Jew who can trace his family line back to Noah or Abraham.
When push came to shove, even Himmler could only reasonably require proof of ancestry from SS postulants going back to the late XVIII century...that was a whopping near 3000 years after biblical times...5000 after early Egypt times...and he was the racist pro...