An intellectual powerhouse of the Palestinian cause fabricated his past to promote himself as a symbol of dispossession and exile, according to the September issue of Commentary magazine. Edward Said, professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University, did not live in Jerusalem, did not go to school there and was not a refugee, according to the article, written by Israeli scholar Justus Reid Weiner.
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