Author: Wouter Capitain

On June 12, 1967, immediately following the Six-Day War that resulted in the ongoing occupation of the Palestinian territories, Edward Said sent a long letter to the editor of The New York Times to condemn their biased coverage of the events. He specifically responded to the newspaper’s editorial statement that, “no matter how the present war turns out, there will be the explosive material of war unless or until the fundamental fact of history is accepted that there is an Israeli nation and that it has a right to exist in peace” (NY Times, June 6, 1967). The claimed...