“My Beautiful Old House” and other Fabrications by Edward Said

Commentary - Justus Reid Weiner - September 1999

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For those who are unfamiliar, Edward Said is the intellectual father of Orientalism, and (during his time as a professor in... Columbia University) was perhaps the main figure in embedding the Palestinian Cause into American Universities and The Left. In his many books, articles, interviews, and documentaries (including a famous one by... The BBC) he lamented about his past, supposedly a victim of the Nakba, and used this moral authority to push his agenda.

As this article clearly demonstrates, this is all a lie.

"Yet, in contrast to the vigor with which Edward Said has spoken about his putative claims against Israel, he has been strangely silent concerning his family’s very real and weighty losses of property in Egypt. One can readily imagine why. Not only would dwelling on those losses highlight the fact of his family’s long-term residence in Cairo rather than Jerusalem, it might retroactively compromise Edward Said’s own self-acknowledged enthusiasms as a onetime “Nasserite.” Or perhaps he just knows that, unlike in Israel, where the rule of law holds sway, the prospects of recovering anything at all in Egypt are negligible to nil."