Perceptions of the Palestinian Death Toll
Israel has killed more than 45,000 Palestinian men, women, and children in Gaza since October 7, 2023, according to the United Nations. An estimated 10,000 more Palestinian men, women, and children remain buried under rubble. A study by The Lancet estimated four...
Palestinian Widows in the Gaza War
Palestinian widows are surviving against terrible odds: their homes and towns are the battlegrounds of war, while they lose family members, neighbors, and friends to Israeli bombings. Many Palestinian women are enduring the additional burden of losing their husbands,...
Jerusalem Christian Church Leaders Speak Up
In 2000, the heads of Jerusalem churches wrote a letter to the leaders at Camp David as they decided the status of Jerusalem. In 2017, these patriarchs once again wrote a letter, but this time it was directed to U.S. President Donald Trump. Jerusalem Christian church...
Israel Officially Begins Annexing the West Bank
In February 2023, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government transferred civil authorities over the West Bank from the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) to a new minister within the Ministry of Defense. According to Foreign Affairs, “[t]his administrative change...
Israeli and Palestinian Women: Witnessing a Paradigm Shift
Shiri Ourian, Executive Director of American Friends of the Parents Circle Families Forum and friend of the Promised Land Museum, shared with us her powerful experience of witnessing Israeli and Palestinian women practice a role reversal activity with the Parents...- 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