Joan Peters (born 1938) is a former CBS news producer of documentaries, and the author best known for a number of theses on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, put forward in her controversial book From Time Immemorial, published in 1984, in which she claims that the Palestinians are largely not indigenous to the area and therefore do not have claims to territory.
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Finkelstein's doctoral dissertation was to disassemble a book by Joan Peters, From Time Immemorial (1984), which claimed that Palestine had been largely empty in the early 20th century, and that both ethnicities were immigrants.
This section of the book contains two essays, one by Said and one by Finklestein concerning Joan Peters and her book, From Time Immemorial.
While From Time Immemorial was a commercial success and had been praised as a serious contribution to the study of the Arab-Israeli conflict by a number of writers and critics, such as Barbara W. Tuchman, Elie Wiesel, and Robert St. John, it has been also discredited by other historians.