A Palestinian intellectual denied that he had misrepresented his past. Edward Said, responding to charges made by an Israeli researcher in the September issue of Commentary magazine, told The New York Times, “I have never said I am a refugee.” But Said failed to address charges that he had lied when he said that he had lived in Jerusalem for several years.
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