The link is colonialism, which has always had a racist cynicism at its core—a belief that the world is not just savage, but that the most dangerous savages tend to live beyond the borders of the West. Zionism—which from the outset sought to position itself as “an outpost of civilization against barbarism”—has never rejected these precepts. The Israeli historian Benny Morris has been celebrated for his willingness to see Zionism’s history with clarity and candor. Would that he could bring that same clarity to Zionism’s victims. In a 2004 interview with Haaretz, Morris described Palestinians as
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