Perry Anderson in the New Left Review

This is a very interesting article by Perry Anderson in the New Left Review about the revolutions in the Arab world. However, I do not agree with all that Anderson says particularly when he writes (check his article on the Oslo accords linked on the left) that there are two nationalisms in Palestine, that of Jews and that of Arabs. Judaism is not a nationalism it is a religion and Zionism's narrative changes it into a nationalism, also Palestinian nationalism did not exist as we know it but as a means to claim political rights since the British mandate. When many western writers deal with nationalism in so-called Third World countries they treat nationalism as a 'Europe's gift' to the latter (check The Nations and its Fragments by Chatterjee, also read more on this in Khalidi's work on Palestinian nationalism). Saying that, I am deeply against all nationalisms, but Palestine is exceptional.