Maxime Rodinson, a specialist on the Arab world and an anti-Zionist thinker, died at 89 in Marseille. The author of numerous works on the history of Islam, Rodinson, who was Jewish, also published major anti-Zionist polemics, including “Israel and the Arab Refusal,” “Israel: A Colonial Settler State” and “Jewish People or Jewish Problem.”
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