Erased from Space and Consciousness: How Palestinian People Became Refugees
Research Reveals How Palestinian People Became Refugees How was it that Palestinian families became refugees? Noga Kadman’s book, Erased from Space and Consciousness: Israel and the Depopulated Palestinian Villages of 1948 (2015), answers this question with striking...
Arab-Israeli War of 1948: Hidden Documents Revealed
According to the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, the Israeli cabinet received testimonies of massacres perpetrated by Israel Defense Force (IDF) soldiers against Arabs during the Arab-Israeli War of 1948. These attacks targeted unarmed men as well as elderly people and...
Why War? The Formation of Israel in Palestine
Since October 7, 2023, the world has watched the government of Israel drop more than 6,000 bombs and launch more than 7,000 missiles into the territory of Gaza, causing damage the equivalent of 2 nuclear bombs. The military operation is in retaliation to a Hamas-led...
New Gallup Poll: Increased American Sympathy for Palestinians
On March 16, 2023, Gallup published the results of a poll that measured American sympathy for Palestinians, Israelis, Israel, and the Palestinian Authority. For the first time, more Democrats (49% versus 38%) sympathize with Palestinians than with Israelis....
Israel Deadly Racism?: Killing Unarmed Black and Palestinian Civilians
Israeli Journalist Etan Nechin: A double standard for recognizing racism? Anti-Black and Anti-Palestinian Racism in the U.S. and Israel In a 2020 op-ed for Forward, Israeli journalist Etan Nechin asked the question “Why do Jews recognize the racism of George Floyd’s...- Why We Record: Defying Fragmentation and Erasure in Palestine
“One day, when it’s safe, when there’s no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it’s too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will… Read more: Why We Record: Defying Fragmentation and Erasure in Palestine - Pardo: Ashamed to Be Jewish
“What I saw today made me feel ashamed to be Jewish” – Don Pardo, former Director of Mossad Tamir Pardo, the former Director of Mossad from 2011–2016,… Read more: Pardo: Ashamed to Be Jewish - IDF Intelligence Report Contradicts Israeli Narrative
The Akevot Institute for Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Research published a previously suppressed IDF intelligence report dating from 1948. This report contradicts the Israeli narrative about the major factor… Read more: IDF Intelligence Report Contradicts Israeli Narrative - David Sheen: Investigative Journalist
David Sheen is a Toronto-born, Haifa-based investigative journalist, who has worked for dozens of local, regional, and international news outlets, from Haaretz to Electronic Intifada, since 2010.… Read more: David Sheen: Investigative Journalist - Israeli Politics Decoded: a talk by David SheenIn the Knesset, who is left-wing? Who is right-wing? Are these terms even useful? Investigative journalist, David Sheen, gave a series of lectures for an international audience;… Read more: Israeli Politics Decoded: a talk by David Sheen
- No Other Land Wins Oscar for Best Documentary Feature
Documentary Chronicles Destruction of Palestinian Community The 2024 Documentary, No Other Land, won the United States’s highest film award for a documentary feature, netting an Oscar at… Read more: No Other Land Wins Oscar for Best Documentary Feature - Burying the Nakba
Burying the Nakba features an investigative report by Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz that uncovered a vast conspiracy by the Israeli government to conceal evidence of the Nakba –… Read more: Burying the Nakba - Jews Step Forward: A Documentary
Jews Step Forward is a confessional documentary featuring 24 Jewish activists who “deconstruct Zionism” against a backdrop of searing, on-the-ground images and footage of atrocities perpetrated by Jewish… Read more: Jews Step Forward: A Documentary - Sykes-Picot Proposal
In May 1916, British diplomat Mark Sykes and French diplomat François Georges-Picot concluded a secret agreement partitioning much of the Arab lands of the Ottoman Empire into… Read more: Sykes-Picot Proposal - Balfour Declaration
The British Government issued the Balfour Declaration in 1917 — a public statement expressing support for a “national home for the Jewish people” in Palestine. This marked… Read more: Balfour Declaration