Editors’ note: We are excited to announce a riveting contest that Robert Spencer has launched on his account on X. Read it carefully below and follow the instructions. You can be the winner of a very exciting prize!
Robert Spencer’s contest announcement on X:
Okay, contest time! Name five famous “Palestinians” of history. Rules: They have to have called themselves “Palestinians” or been referred to as “Palestinians” by people during their lifetime. They also have to have died before Yasir Arafat was born. Provide the necessary quotes and other documentation! Winner will receive free copies of all 29 of my currently published books!
Instructions: Click on Robert’s post on X below and write your answers in the comment section underneath. Good luck!
Okay, contest time! Name five famous “Palestinians” of history. Rules: They have to have called themselves “Palestinians” or been referred to as “Palestinians” by people during their lifetime. They also have to have died before Yasir Arafat was born. Provide the necessary quotes…
— Robert Spencer (@jihadwatchRS) May 29, 2025
Some might claim, of course, that this contest is rigged, and that there are no possible right answers. These people have a point, and that, indeed, is the point of the whole contest. As Spencer has explained in The Palestinian Delusion, throughout all of history, the “Palestinians” were never a distinct ethnicity or nationality. They were invented in the 1960s by the KGB, in collaboration with Yasir Arafat, for propaganda purposes.
Today, the case can be made that the “Palestinians” are the most successful propaganda effort in world history. It is long past time for the foreign policy establishment in Washington to acknowledge that this people never existed throughout history, and to come to grips with the implications of that fact for their claim to be the “indigenous people” of the region that today comprises the state of Israel and its environs.
