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Editors’ note: We are excited to announce a riveting contest that Robert Spencer has launched on his account on X. Read it carefully below and follow the instructions. You can be the winner of a very exciting prize!
Robert Spencer’s contest announcement on X:
Okay, contest time! Name five famous “Palestinians” of history. Rules: They have to have called themselves “Palestinians” or been referred to as “Palestinians” by people during their lifetime. They also have to have died before Yasir Arafat was born. Provide the necessary quotes and other documentation! Winner will receive free copies of all 29 of my currently published books!
Instructions: Click on Robert’s post on X below and write your answers in the comment section underneath. Good luck!
Okay, contest time! Name five famous “Palestinians” of history. Rules: They have to have called themselves “Palestinians” or been referred to as “Palestinians” by people during their lifetime. They also have to have died before Yasir Arafat was born. Provide the necessary quotes…
— Robert Spencer (@jihadwatchRS) May 29, 2025
Some might claim, of course, that this contest is rigged, and that there are no possible right answers. These people have a point, and that, indeed, is the point of the whole contest. As Spencer has explained in The Palestinian Delusion, throughout all of history, the “Palestinians” were never a distinct ethnicity or nationality. They were invented in the 1960s by the KGB, in collaboration with Yasir Arafat, for propaganda purposes.
Today, the case can be made that the “Palestinians” are the most successful propaganda effort in world history. It is long past time for the foreign policy establishment in Washington to acknowledge that this people never existed throughout history, and to come to grips with the implications of that fact for their claim to be the “indigenous people” of the region that today comprises the state of Israel and its environs.
There were famous Palestinians such as Theodore Levy, Shlomoh Meranz, Walter Frankl, and Dov Rabinovich who were track stars. To just make five, add Yosef Porat, a chess player. However, they were performing after Arafat was born in 1929. The point of naming these famous Palestinians is that they were all Jews, not Arabs.
Name 5 famous Israelis who died before Yasser Arafat was born.
King David, King Solomon, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Saul, Jesus and his apostles. That’s 19.
Do the kings of ancient Israel count? How about the famous teachers of less ancient Judea? There are any number we could name for pre-Israel, like Eliezer Ben Yehudah, who led the Hebrew revival. Golda Meir was both a “Palestinian” under the Mandate and an Israeli, but lived into the Arafat era.
Well for one thing there are no Palestinians. They are just Arab Muslims calling themselves that for political reasons. There never was a Palestinian nation or people, they are a fiction invented for political purposes, first by the Roman emperor Hadrian after he crushed the Bar Khokba revolt and renamed the region Syria Palestina, after the Philistines who had vanished from the world centuries before to erase all Jewish connection to the land. In modern times Arab Muslims use the name for the same purpose.
Take it from one of their own:
The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct ‘Palestinian people’ to oppose Zionism.” — Zuheir Mohsen, PLO official, Trouw, March 31, 1977.
The most famous, or rather infamous, person generally acknowledged to be Palestinian before the state of Israel was declared in 1948 was Haj al Amin Al Husseini, the grand mufti of Jerusalem. Few people know that he was appointed mufti byHerbert Samuel, a British Jew, the official in the colonial office.most responsible for Palestine, a job that naturally was assigned to a Jew. In reality there has never been a state of Palestine or Palestinian people outside of the minds of those who would do harm to the Jews using the dregs of the former Ottoman Empire—the so-called Palestinians—to do their filthy work.