*Editor’s Note: This is the first installment in a new series of articles from Jewish Press Online contributor, Alex Grobman, PhD
In an attempt to delegitimize the modern state of Israel, Israel’s enemies seek to deny that Jews have any historical or religious connection to the land of Israel, accuse them of being a colonial state, and that they are not even a people or a religious community, because they do not have a common language, history or ancestry. This is an effort to deny them the right to self-determination, a strategy that involves usurping Jewish traditions, beliefs and historical accounts to invent the past existence of a Palestinian Arab nation and state.