AMHERST — Calling for an end to the nation of Israel is how anti-Zionist author and historian Thomas Suarez began a new book tour this week at UMass Amherst.

“The only way there’s ever going to be peace in the Middle East and in the larger world is that the state of Israel ceases to exist and is replaced by a secular state of all the people,” Suarez said.

He spoke in an interview with The Republican before his talk in front of 75 people at the University of Massachusetts Amherst on Wednesday.

From London, Suarez is visiting American towns and cities to promote his latest book, “Palestine Mapped: From the River to the Sea in Early Geographic Thought with Thomas Suarez.”

Interlink Publishing, a Palestinian-owned, independent book publisher in Northampton, is producing and distributing th

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