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...
Remembering the 1948 Nakba in Palestine is essential to honoring the history of Israel’s formation. Pal48’s website is dedicated to documenting the violence of the Nakba through statistics, articles, and a catalog of massacres against Palestinians as well as media,...
Communities across the globe have collected this expansive archive of more than 200 hundred photographs spanning decades, now displayed on the Palestine Remembered website. The collection includes dozens of mini-albums featuring Qaqun’s natural landscape in both the...
The Palestine Remembered archive includes an extensive collection of historical records, images, and videos about Palestinian villages and history. In their collection about the village of Qaqun in the West Bank, several land documents trace the Palestinian people’s...
Qaqun, a Palestinian village once located in the West Bank, was invaded, depopulated, and demolished by Jewish settlers in 1945. This land deed, posted to the Palestine Remembered archival website, provides concrete evidence that Palestinians owned land and resided in...
The title page of a book published in 1936 was uploaded from Qaqun.org to the Palestine Remembered website in 2010. Described as a book about “the desecration of the Qaqun Mosque by British soldiers,” the archival description also explains the “burning of the Holy...
“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...