In a widely syndicated column Jonathan Cook wrote that the book as famous antecedents, in 1969, Golda Meir declared to the world: “There were no such thing as Palestinians" and that in 1984 the book From Time Immemorial claimed Palestinian were recent economically motivated immigrants. Furthermore, Cook wrote "Israelis have been only too happy to make the Palestinians vanish.", however this does not per Cook help Israel's cause among young American Jews that face a choice: "Will they conspire, if only through their silence, in the erasure of the Palestinians carried out by Israel in their name? Or will they stand and fight, in the occupied territories, on campus, in their communities and, soon enough, in the corridors of power in Washington?".[1]