People lapped it up by the millions and refused to accept that it was anything but absolute truth, with Biblical authority to boot.īut it was – as everyone now knows – a lie.
It was the romantic happy ending Europe needed following the genocide of its own Jewish citizenry. It narrated a true event (a ship carrying Jewish refugees sailing to Palestine) as the seed of an elaborate myth – a land without a people for a people without a land – which functioned to obscure the indigenous stewards of the land. The result was Exodus, a bestseller turned blockbuster film. In the mid-1950s, powerful Hollywood executives financed the writing of a novel by Leon Uris to sell a pro-Israel agenda to Western popular imagination. Hollywood director Steven Spielberg recently bought the film rights to a novel about “Israel Palestine” before it was published, something that may take us to a cultural moment of unfortunate deja vu.
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