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: soon as I heard that the book was going to come out in England, I immediately sent copies of Finkelstein's work to a number of British scholars and journalists who are interested in the Middle East — and they were ready.

As soon as the book Time Immemorial appeared, it was just demolished, it was blown out of the water.

Every major journal, the Times Literary Supplement, the London Review, the Observer, everybody had a review saying, this doesn't even reach the level of nonsense, of idiocy.

A lot of the criticism used Finkelstein's work without any acknowledgment, I should say — but about the kindest word anybody said about the book was " ludicrous ," or " preposterous.