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...
Diana Neslen is a practicing Jewish woman who was investigated for antisemitism by UK Labour after she tweeted “the existence of the state of Israel is a racist endeavour and I am an antiracist Jew.” Labour dropped the case after Neslen threatened to sue. She said: “I...
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...
British playwright Caryl Churchill was awarded the European Drama Prize in April 2022 only for the award to be rescinded in October in retaliation for Churchill’s continued support of the Palestinian Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement. More than 170 actors,...
Palestine Open Maps (POM) is a platform that uses mapping technologies in collaboration with researchers to showcase visual stories of the geographical transformation of historic Palestine over the last 70+ years. The project combines 1940s British Mandate of...
British mandate officer searching Jewish rabbi for hidden arms in Jerusalem, April 1920. Via the Library of Congress.
In 1917, British troops captured Jerusalem after the fall of the Ottoman Empire. General Sir Edmund Allenby, by orders of British Prime Minister David Lloyd George, read a Proclamation of Martial Law to the Palestinians. Featured photo: “Capture and occupation of...
Recently declassified M16 documents show how Zionist groups fighting for the creation of the Israeli state were emboldened to commit acts of terrorism against the British, both in Palestine and in Britain. According to Haaretz, in July 1946, one of these groups named...
“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...