![]() Not so fast, says Weiner: Said’s childhood was not “the parable of Palestinian identity” marked by dispossession from a beloved homeland and the subsequent pain of exile. The article, by American-born Israeli legal scholar Justus Reid Weiner, contends that Said, who was born in Jerusalem to a Christian Arab family in 1935, has over the years deliberately obscured some facts about his early life, and amplified others, in order to create the impression that he was, of all things, Palestinian. ![]() Said, the subject of a fiercely debated article in the September issue of Commentary. ![]() To this list now add Columbia literature professor Edward W. ![]()
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