Palestinian Food Can Be Dangerous For Your Health

Largest Palestinain Tabouleh dish makes it into Guinness Book of Records
from Sabbah Blog

"There is no Palestinian cookery in Israel because Palestinian cookery is a security threat. If a Jew eats kubbeh niyeh, mansaf or frikkeh, molecules whipped up in an Israeli Arab kitchen will race around in his body, and he could wake up one morning to find that he has turned into an Arab."

I don't believe the fear of turning into an Arab is the reason for the suppression of Palestinian cuisine in Israel. It's the fear that by acknowledging the food exists, the Israeli Jew acknowedges that the Palestinian Arab exists--as a culture, nationality, roots. The mere thought of that is known to cause major cases of political, intellectual and moral indigestion.

The problem they have is not with the food pe se: they've been Israelizing Palestinian food for decades and many Israeli Jews are Arabs to begin with. Their problem is with the makers of the food who either don't exist (Zionism) or only exist as a "plague" (right wing Zionism), or only exist to be tolerated to prove the Jewish state is a democracy (left wing Zionism).

Which reminds me: I'm making some freekeh today (also called "freek" when you don't like your guests). Goes well with the snow outside.