Thread by @Spinozasrose

@marclamonthill is not "attacked" and noone doubt his scholarly credentials, as a Prof. of Media, Urban Studies, African-American Studies. Being disputed is his claim to have published a scholarly book on Israel, a subject on which can't be regarded as an "expert." /1

https://twitter.com/RashidaTlaib/status/1359343908870848513

@marclamonthill claimed that he has a degree in Mid-East Studies. But will not reveal for some reason where he got it or who his proffs were. He believes that his word shd be enough to remove any scepticism.

Like you, @RashidaTlaib I had a grandmother of great wisdom. /2

She kept a vegetable garden and learned that even if you see a rosette of leaves, upon pulling it from the ground, there won't be necessarily a carrot root attached to it. Any numbe rof reasons can account for it. /3

If @marclamonthill is a bona fide scholar on Israeli issues, he might want to produce the carrot that proves his relevant scholarship. So far all there is a polemical book written by a rabid activist. Marc's opinions, as interesting as they may be, are not scholarship.

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A bona fide scholar who boasts he boycotts Israeli" water -staying thirsty for 17 hours- cannot later claim he wrote a scholarly book about Israel or complain that his work is based on academically sound research. /5

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A bona fide scholar who returns from an "empirical research" in Israel but calls it "Palestine" cannot later claim he wrote a scholarly book about Israel and "human rights for all" or that his work is based on academically sound research.

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Experts like @marclamonthill are known in the history of Jews. For example, Hannah Arendt tells us in her book on Eichmann that after the early pogroms and atrocities in 1934, with Jews still “blissfully unaware of the growing power of the black-shirted S.S /7

… they even offered to cooperate in "the solution of the Jewish question” [], Eichmann entered upon his apprenticeship in Jewish affairs, on which, four years later, he was to be the recognized "An Expert on the Jewish Question”. /8

Eichmann, preparing for his future mission, learned some Hebrew, read Herzl’s book on The Jewish State and even visited Mandatory Palestine.

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Eichmann's visit to Palestine is not, as far as I recall, mentioned in the book. This is the source:
Years before Eichmann was brought to Israel to stand trial, the notorious mass-murderer visited Mandatory Palestine in 1937 disguised as a journalist. /10
blog.nli.org.il/en/eichmann_se…

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