Anne-Marie Edde, Eugenie Rebillard and Rene Elter during BAFF's conference on Gaza. (Credit: Wadih Khairallah)
On March 19, 2023, in Paris, Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said on Radio France Inter: “The Palestinian people are a less than one hundred year old invention. Do they have a history, a culture? No, they do not. There are no Palestinians, there are only Arabs,” historian Anne-Marie Edde recounts. She spoke during a panel discussion with Rene Elter, an archaeologist specializing in Palestinian heritage. The event, moderated by historian Eugenie Rebillard, a researcher at IFPO, was organized by the Beirut Art Film Festival (BAFF) at the Beryte Theater at Saint Joseph University. Catch up on the event Humanity is BAFF 2025’s raw material Edde also cited a June 15, 1969, comment to the Sunday Times by former Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir: “There was no such thing as Palestinians. (…) They did not exist.” The remarks...
On March 19, 2023, in Paris, Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said on Radio France Inter: “The Palestinian people are a less than one hundred year old invention. Do they have a history, a culture? No, they do not. There are no Palestinians, there are only Arabs,” historian Anne-Marie Edde recounts. She spoke during a panel discussion with Rene Elter, an archaeologist specializing in Palestinian heritage. The event, moderated by historian Eugenie Rebillard, a researcher at IFPO, was organized by the Beirut Art Film Festival (BAFF) at the Beryte Theater at Saint Joseph University. Catch up on the event Humanity is BAFF 2025’s raw material Edde also cited a June 15, 1969, comment to the Sunday Times by former Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir: “There was no such thing as Palestinians. (…) They did not exist.” The...
