Historical film by Europeans visiting the Holy Land showing people and environments between 1903 and 1918. This video shows historical film footage of the Holy Land between 1903 and 1918 by Bengt von zur Mühlen. It features observations of daily life, including Jews...
Yohanan Ben Zakai’s Sephardic Synagogue in Jerusalem, 1893. Via +972Mag. The Yochanan ben Zakai Sephardic Synagogue is located in the Jewish Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem. The building was constructed by 1610, and it became the largest synagogue of the...
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...
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...
The University of California at Berkeley, home of the Free Speech Movement, recently saw the nation's first extended, public debates over the merits of a resolution advocating that the UC system divest from companies militarily supporting Israel's occupation of the...
In 1948, the western part of the Jerusalem fell under Israeli control, and in 1967, the eastern part fell under Israeli occupation. Since then, Israel has pursued a policy of Judaizing the city, aiming to achieve "Jewish demographic superiority." Part of this policy...
Many interested in Israel-Palestine have asked the question: “Where is the Palestinian Mandela?” But Nelson Mandela’s grandson Nkosi Zwelivelile Mandela has argued that this question emerges from a distortion of his grandfather’s legacy. Who Was Nelson Mandela?...
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...
Dr. Joshua Shanes, Associate Professor of Jewish Studies and Director of the Arnold Center for Israel Studies at the College of Charleston in South Carolina wrote an article for Haaretz titled “Liberal Zionists, Face the Facts: There’s Already Only One State From the...
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....
Gideon Levy is one of the most famous and controversial journalists in Israel. The Independent has described him as both “the most hated man in Israel” and the “most heroic.” Levy, in turn, describes Israelis as living in a “bubble”—unaware of their government’s...
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...
Rachel Tetrault is a community organizer and campaigner who wrote a letter to Straight.com about Vancouver’s choice to adopt a contentious antisemitism definition. In the letter, Tetrault shares about her Jewish upbringing and facing Israel’s racism against...
Anna Baltzer is a Jewish American award-winning speaker and organizer. She described her observations visiting the West Bank in a book Witness in Palestine: a Jewish Woman in the Occupied Territories and has toured the world presenting her experiences to more than 500...