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Title: Insidious
Review: What a shame. I was really looking forward to reading this book after reading what the blurb and introduction claimed it was -- a balanced academic history that presents for the first time an unbiased account of Jerusalem's history.Unfortunately, it is anything but that. All of the "scholars" come from one perspective and many of the "facts" presented are at best misrepresentations of facts. What makes this book so insidious, however, is its very claims to balance and even-handedness. But simply claiming that you are unbiased and balanced does NOT make you such. And just because your scholars come from different countries does not mean that their views are diverse or more universal.If a KKK member wrote a book describing in academic-sounding terms how blacks were inferior, and then wrote a description of the book that described it as well-researched, balanced and even-handed, it would not cease to be a racist book.
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