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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.
Technically Israelis are descendants of Jacob so Abraham and Isaac don’t count as Israelis but they could be counted as inhabitants of Canaan.
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.
Samson, Jephthah, Boaz, King David, King Solomon.
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.
As I sat at my desk in 1969 while on watch as a Naval Aviator, I thumbed through a couple of DIA factbooks. One book was about the Middle East. And there, in my 25th year, I was introduced to women being beheaded in public and others stoned to death while buried up to their necks. From that night forward, I abhorred Islam. A theocracy, not a religion. Certainly not given to man by God.
Arafat should not be counted as a ‘Palestinian’ anyway. He was an Egyptian whose family owned land in ‘Palestine’ that was worked by half starved felaheen.
How about Goliath of Gath? He was famous. You will protest that he was a Philistine. But in Arabic, Falistiin is the word for Palestine and Falistiineen is Arabic for Palestinian. So Goliath is definitely a Palestinian
You do realize that Philistines and Palestinian Arabs are completely different people, right?
In ISRAEL itself there are 2 million (20% of the population) that are Israeli citizens.
They descend from the 150,000 Palestinians who did not flee what is now Israel during the 1947-1949 first civil war,then war.
According to the Penn State University survey done in MARCH 2025 among only Jews in Israel there is an evil attitude against the Palestinians of Israel by the Jews.
But first one has to admit the discoveries of EDWARD BERNAYS,nephew of Sigmund Freud.
He is the father of the art of political and business propaganda.
Propaganda is convincing somebody using omission of facts,half-truths or lies or a mixture of the three.
Bernays wrote his masterpeice ,entitled ”Propaganda”( 1928).
GOEBELLS,Hitler’s Minister of Propaganda ( official title ), read Bernays and applied his techniques. He himself said he read the book and used its ideas.
Bernays knew what to do.He was paid by the banana company United Fruit that controled banana plantations in Central America, to convince the US government and public through LIES to overthrow the government of Guatemalan reformer and president ARBENZ. The CIA did it.
Bernays convinced them all Arbenz was a COMMUNIST and he was not.
Bernays discovered and stated that most people,even those in an OPEN SOCIETY and DEMOCRACY are
1. Intellectually lazy
2. Lack curiosity
and thus can easily be MANIPULATED and INDOCTRINATED.
Another who wrote about the subject is NOAM CHOMSKY in his book ””Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media” (1988).
Chomsky shows how the MEDIA can indoctrinate and manipulate the majority via propaganda.
One case of how much propaganda leads to brainwashing and indoctrination is that of MARY TRUMP. She is the NIECE of Donald Trump.
She has her youtube channel and it is interesting.
Leftists Max Blumenthal,Aaron Maté, Jimmy Dore and also centrist Jeffrey Sachs have condemned RUSSIAGATE
as being a hoax.Why? Based on the evidence,it is a lie that PUTIN had helped Trump win the 2016 election. And those people are AGAINST Trump on many issues.But they are intellectually honest.
They also,like Mary Trump, accurately say Trump’s tariff war is destroying the US economy.
What does MARY Trump say about Russiagate?
She says it is TRUE. Hard to believe since it goes against the evidence and she is a PSYCHOLOGIST. She should know how your MIND can be manipulated,indoctrinated. Yet she is partly-brainwashed.
She wrote a book against Donald Trump in 2020 ”Too much and never enough”
So Herr Lagrungy, you finally came clean. You are a very verbose Jew hater. Why am I not surprised. It’s so in vogue these days.
I never know what your long tomes are about and your writing style is practically unintelligible drivel. Maybe complete sentences might help, or an ESL class, Mr. Linguinistics
Cumpsky is a true Leftist (yes, at 96 he still crawls around the planet), an unemployable college campus loser who appears to have inhabited the world of linguistics about 4 decades too long…..(the CIA did it!)
You are wrong. And proof of brainwashing,manipulation and indoctrination
are the results of the March Penn State survey. It was done ONLY with JEWISH Israelis in Israel.
They are 80% of the population,Palestinians are 20%.The 20% or 2 million who have Israeli citizenship since 1949.
2 million who are not into terrorist groups,of which 300,000 are Christians,and are peaceful.
Of the Jewish population 80% are secular,non-religious the rest are Orthodox Jews.
The survey shows 56%,the MAJORITY of Israeli Jews are for the EXPULSION,ethnic cleansing of the 2 million Israeli Arabs.
That is indoctrination,brainwashing. Proof BERNAYS was correct.
60% of the Orthodox Jews,supposedly the most moral, conscientious group,who pray to GOD every day is for ethnic cleansing,a crime against humanity.
And 38% of the secular Jews,supposedly the most rational,enlightened group. Together the result is 56% of Jews.
Get a life. Again I have no idea what you are talking about. Just a bunch of unsourced anti-semitic drivel. TLDR.
It is NOT “ethnic cleansing to remove the enemy within your population who wants to eliminate you!!!
HAARETZ,which is a Liberal Zionist journal, had published the poll,done for Penn State University among Israeli Jews ,an online poll
in the first week of March by Israeli polling firm Geocartography for Penn State University.
A Jew could chose to identify among 4 categories:
1.Ultra-Orthodox
2.Religious
3.Traditionalist
4.Secular.
91% of Ultra-Orthodox Jews are for EXPULSION of the 2 million Israeli Arabs
68% of the religious in favor
65% of the traditionalists in favor
38% of secular Jews in favor
The average gives 56% in favor.
Blah bitty Blah bitty. Blah Blah.
Gotta love that simpering grin on the Grand Moofti’s face. I’d bet a few dollars that he was thinking “Yeah this Adolf guy is a nut case but he is actually killing those dastardly Jews using “high tech” Zyklon B…….
Now why didn’t Allah give me the secret first? They have Heydrich and we don’t.
There is an important question, which is “Are there really an ethnic or race of people who may be , rightly called the “ Palestinians” or is that just a hijacked term that the Arabs of the area in the Middle East now exclusively only to themselves without valid genuine proof that such a term is actually fitting for them.
Many reliable scholars and historians on Israel and the entire Middle East have ,rightly, answered that question. Two of them had together have compiled a book on this subject and had revealed, “The Palestinian leadership has repeatedly sought to legitimize their right to the land, by claiming it belongs to them and not the Jews. One of their BIG lies is that the land was always referred to as Palestine. Historically, this is inaccurate ! There has never been a Palestinian state in the history of the world.”
The authors further explain that “The Roman Emperor Hadrian , following the second Jewish revolt led by Simon Kochba , changed the name of Israel to Syria Palestina which he took from the Hebrew word Pelesheth, which we know as Philistia . Why ? Because the Jews hated the Philistines and this was a slap in the face to them.”
Those writers also added that “”What difference does this make ? …. “ They then explained, because it gives the false impression that there was a land of Palestine in ancient times and perpetuates the lie that the Jews took away the Palestinian land.”
In conclusion, “Palestine’ is a man- made fiction therefore, there is no ethnic group or race of people who are real“ Palestinians.” Likewise, the “Palestinian flag is a fake” flag.”
By great contrast, Israel is an historic and Biblical reality, Psalm 135;4.
The book source is entitled Miracle of Israel by Gary Frazier and Jim Fletcher , pages 177,178 179.
Didn’t the Balfour declaration refer to something called Palestine but when the territory currently comprising Israel was controlled by Egypt Jordan Syria & Lebanon there was no talk of a Palestinian state or Palestinian people. Palestine is what the left likes to call a wedge issue.
Palestine-ism and the lies of “stolen land” and genocide are the latest iteration of blood libel against Jews. Israelis are just Jews in Israel. Jews have lived continuously in an unbroken line since 1300 BCE when Joshua conquered the land. All archeology and history is being denied by the liars of antiJewish pro Hamas Palestine movement. Palestine is in fact a Jewish identity prior to 1948 and was stolen and turned into a propaganda tool by Arafat and his KGB handlers in 1964. Everything “Palestine” prior to 1948 was Jewish. Israel has time and again attempted to allow autonomy for the Arabs in Gaza and Judea/Samaria since 1967 through Oslo Accords. The Arabs do NOT want land. They are driven by Jihadi desire to kill Jews because of the Koran. With autonomy since 2007, the Gazans elected and support Hamas. They have started 5 terrors wars vs Israel since then. Knowing they cannot conquer israel , the terror campaigns are to rev up Propaganda In the West vs Israel. This was Arafat long haul strategy. Hamas succeeded in ginning up antiIsrael sentiment in the US which the mindless lemming ivy leagues students are now the front lines for Hamas and will be the Palestine fighters long after Israel destroys Hamas. History is stubborn teacher: Jews will always prevail but not after a catastrophe that tries to destroy them but instead engulfs the world. We are in the tidal wave now of radical Palestine-ism driven by the lies of Taqiyya drenched propaganda that the Jews kill babies, rape and starve their enemies. As much as the Gazan Arabs deserve their current destruction at the hands of Israel it is because Hamas provoked Israel for this very response and sacrifices their children like Molech followers. Ancient first cult with a modern political twist. Genocidal Oct 7 deserve nothing less than the complete eradication of the ideology that launched Oct 7. Complete capitulation is what Israel needs from the enemy. Hiroshima, Nagasaki and Dresden killed hundreds of thousands of civilians to break the will of the enemy to end the war. The will of Hamas and it’s sycophantic supporters will only be broken if Israel crushes them relentlessly Man Woman and child. Till the last one. It is a war of survival for the Jews and Israel is the tip of the spear. Now, to answer Robert Spencer, question, as of 1921 the most famous Palestinians were Ben Gurion, Chaim Weitzman, Menachem Begin, Yitzchak Rabin and Shimon Peres, all Palestinians in British Mandate Palestine.