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 a watershed moment in the history of Zionism, British politics, and Arab independence,...
From 1920-1948, the British Government administered present-day Israel and Palestine as Mandatory Palestine. Facing sectarian violence from both Jewish settlers and Palestinian Arab peoples, the British Government issued the White Paper of 1939. By the time the White...
The Britain Palestine Project: Origins, Advocacy, and the Contested Legacy of the Balfour Declaration What Is the Britain Palestine Project? The Britain Palestine Project (BPP) — known as the Balfour Project from its founding in 2017 until 2025 — is a Scottish...
In this episode of The Big Picture Podcast, host Mohamed Hassan speaks with Richard Boyd Barett, an Irish lawmaker and anti-war activist. Barett has been an advocate for an end to apartheid in both South Africa and Palestine, often leading rallies and marches across...
Formed in 1924, The Palestine Jewish Colonization Association began as a reorganization of the Jewish Colonization Association, originally established in 1891. The group’s self-described goals stated the colonization of Palestinian land, facilitating the emigration of...
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...
Actress Emma Watson, best known for her role as Hermione in the Harry Potter series, shared a photo on her Instagram account from a pro-Palestine rally with the phrase “Solidarity is a Verb.” Israel’s former ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon accused Watson...
George Galloway is a British politician, broadcaster, and writer who is the leader of the Workers Party of Britain. In this segment of The Jimmy Dore Show, Galloway talks about fighting apartheid in South Africa alongside Jewish South Africans. He also discusses the...
This 1979 United Nations video shared by C-SPAN provides a brief history of Palestine and the creation of the Israeli state. The film discusses the impacts of the British Mandate of Palestine, the Balfour Declaration, the UN partition and the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. It...
“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 have always been against this.” —Omar El Akkad, Journalist Why We Record: Defying Fragmentation and Erasure in...
“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, recently toured the West Bank, after which he delivered a sobering assessment of the mistreatment of Palestinian...
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 in the displacement of Israel’s Arab residents during the...
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. He has focused extensively on the Israeli far-right, including the...
In 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; he threw out the traditional breakdown of Israeli politics in favor of a new alignment...