Part of the problem is that lots of people will read just the headline and the first couple paragraphs. If you read the last graf, not only is Zand wrong, so are the other two professors. Segev trying to have his cake and eat it, like lots of sneaks.
As the article mentions, there was a Jewish people at the time of the Babylonian exile, and it was exiled. Seven hundred years before Romans burned the Second Temple. Rome may rarely have exiled whole peoples, but Babylon and other ME empires certainly did.
Rome sent hundreds of thousands of Jews as slaves to the markets of Rome, Marseilles, and elsewhere. Arch of Titus depicts some of them. Not a formal, legal exile, but a de facto one. And Hadrian made it a capital crime for a Jew to travel to Israel after the Bar-Kochba revolt, and for a gentile to bring a Jew there on ship. Hadrian also made it illegal for Jews to live in Jerusalem.
Any reading of the history of that era shows the various tactics, from capital punishment... |
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