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Santorum Joins Gingrich in Not Seeing Palestinians

Gal Beckerman

Gal Beckerman January 3, 2012

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“All the people who live in the West Bank are Israelis. They are not Palestinians. There are no Palestinians.”

— Rick Santorum

Gal Beckerman was a staff writer and then the Forward’s opinion editor until 2014. He was previously an assistant editor at the Columbia Journalism Review where he wrote essays and media criticism. His book reviews have appeared in The New York Times Book Review and Bookforum. His first book, “When They Come for Us, We’ll Be Gone: The Epic Struggle to Save Soviet Jewry,” won the 2010 National Jewish Book Award and the 2012 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature, as well as being named a best book of the year by The New Yorker and The Washington Post. Follow Gal on Twitter at @galbeckerman

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