An Australian bookstore employee has filmed herself bragging about mocking some customers from Israel:
Assuming this cackling witch is telling the truth, this is deplorable. No establishment should ever mock its customers on the basis of their nationality, and I hope she can be identified and dealt with. If she is an employee, she should be fired, and if she is the bookstore owner, the store should be boycotted.
But there’s actually more I want to highlight here. You see, in addition to being a vile creature, she is also as thick as bricks.
The book she showed – Biblical Researches in Palestine and the Adjacent Regions by Dr Edward Robinson – very much acknowledged the Jewish historical connection to the land. Robinson, an American biblical scholar, traveled extensively through Palestine in 1838 and again in 1852. His aim was to use geography, topography, and linguistics to identify sites mentioned in the Jewish Bible.
Robinson compared Arabic place names with biblical Hebrew and ancient sources, effectively creating the foundation of modern “biblical archaeology.” Robinson explicitly ties ancient sites to their biblical (and thus Jewish) roots. For example:
- He identified Hebron with its biblical significance as the city of Abraham and the burial place of the patriarchs.
- He confirmed the location of Bethlehem, Jericho, Shiloh, and Shechem, and noted their biblical Jewish heritage.
- He documented ruins, synagogues, and inscriptions that attested to a Jewish presence in antiquity.
His work was among the first systematic efforts to show that the geography of the land aligns closely with the Hebrew Bible narrative. In fact, Robinson was called the “Father of Biblical Geography” precisely because he validated the Jewish historical and scriptural record through fieldwork. His findings were cited throughout the 19th century as evidence that Jewish history in the land was not just religious tradition but geographically and historically grounded.
In short: Robinson did not just acknowledge Jewish history in the land – his entire project was built around confirming the biblical (and thus Jewish) roots of places in Palestine. His research is one of the 19th-century pillars that counter later claims attempting to erase Jewish historical ties to the region.
So while this smug bigot thought she was being clever by waving around Robinson’s work, all she really did was expose her own ignorance. The very book she flaunted completely undercuts the anti-Israel narrative she was trying to push.
In other words, she didn’t just mock Israeli customers – she mocked herself and her fellow Israel-haters.
