British mandate officer searching Jewish rabbi for hidden arms in Jerusalem, April 1920. Via the Library of Congress.

British mandate officer searching Jewish rabbi for hidden arms in Jerusalem, April 1920. Via the Library of Congress.
Since the creation of the Israeli state, many extremist groups of Jewish people have desecrated Muslim holy sites. For example, there is proof that Jewish settlers destroyed the centuries-old mosque in Jerusalem by arson and vandalism in 1967. A letter to the United...
Many argue that Palestinians represent a grave threat to Israelis. This is a myth. Palestinian civilians experience systemic oppression by living under Israel’s military occupation. Warfare between the two parties is asymmetrical. When a Palestinian civilian throws a...
Many Palestinian refugees who were forced to leave their homes in 1948 and 1967 still hold their keys. The key has become an important symbol of the Nakba and the never-ending hope to return home. Feature photo: Palestinian man who fled his home in 1948 holding his...
In the early 1900s, Palestine experienced waves of Jewish migration and colony-building, including the founding of Tel Aviv in 1909 and the creation of the Haganah (the Jewish paramilitary organization) in 1920. On August 15, 1929, Zionist groups organized a great...
This photograph is a stereoscope image from 1900 of carpenters in Nazareth, Palestine. Many believe Jesus Christ was a carpenter from Nazareth. Another carpenter from Nazareth, Azmi S. Audeh, wrote about “the simple life of [his] Palestinian family” prior to the Nakba...
Since Israel’s founding, Palestinians have fought for their legal right to return to their homes and for the freedom to live without the oppression of Israel’s military occupation. This pits Israel and its $22 billion-per-year military against Palestinian civilians,...
During and following the Six-Day War of 1967, another wave of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were forced to leave their homes behind and become refugees. These photos show Palestinian refugees carrying their belongings on their backs while leaving their...
These photos show Palestinian families forced to leave their homes and become refugees during the Nakba, or the creation of the Israeli state. Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin revealed to the New York Times in 1979 his first-hand account of the expulsion of 50,000...
Young American activist Rachel Corrie was standing between the home of a Palestinian family and a bulldozer in a nonviolent direct action to demand the end to Israel’s illegal policy home demolitions when an Israeli bulldozer crushed her to death in 2003. Her family...
Israel was founded on the idea that 20th century Jewish settlers arrived in the Holy Land and, through hard work, transformed its empty swamps into fertile gardens. Early Zionist thinker Israel Zangwill wrote in 1901: “Palestine is a country without a people; the Jews...
In this French news report, the story of a Muslim Imam who saved Jews from the Holocaust in Nazi-Occupied France is revealed. Learn more about this story at the Promised Land Museum.Video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uk4a-0aO7ks&ab_channel=ShalamFrVideo...
In this video shown by Dutch TV, Zochrot covers Innaba, a village that has been destroyed since 1948. Zochrot is a Jewish, Israeli non-governmental organization that calls for the recognition and responsibility of Israel’s violence in 1948 and beyond offers a wealth...
The movie, 1948: Creation and Catastrophe, describes the events underlying the establishment of Israel through the personal recollections of both Palestinians and Israelis. This documentary was the last chance for many Israelis and Palestinians to narrate their...
The Palestine Police Force was a British colonial institution established during the Mandate. Jewish terrorist groups were among their targets. Featured photo: “Palestine Police Force wanted poster of Irgun and Lehi members. Menachem Begin appears at the top left.”...