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For the first half of the 20th century, Massad explained, European anti-Semitism had focused on Jews and colonial Orientalism on Arabs and Muslims. Since the 1967 and 1973 wars and Arab oil embargo, anti-Semitic caricatures have been of Arabs as the Semites responsible for the disruption of Western and Jewish progress. [...] Massad concluded, while according to the Orientalist historian Bernard Lewis the term "anti-Semitic" is always and only about Jews, the figure of the Semite with its negative connotation is preserved, but applied solely to Arabs-and especially to Palestinians.
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Columbia University Honors Edward Said with Conference On Orientalism
ON NOV. 7 and 8, in remembrance of its late professor Edward Said, Columbia University hosted a conference on "Orientalism from the Standpoint of its Victims." In her welcoming remarks, Mariam Said recalled her husband saying toward the end of his life that the most important thing he had done was co-found with Israeli-born pianist and conductor Daniel Barenboim the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, with the vision ...
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