Palestine Open Maps

Palestine Open Maps

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...

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Anti-Mapping Exhibit

Anti-Mapping Exhibit

These two images were captured by Miki Kratsman and Shabtai Pinchevsky for their “Anti-Mapping” exhibit at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art. Haaretz reports that the exhibit exposes places not shown on government maps because they’ve either (a) had their names erased; (b)...

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Palestine Open Maps

Palestine Open Maps

Palestine Open Maps 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 Palestine...

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The Geography of Palestine

The Geography of Palestine

La Geographie de la Palestine is a 1938 book, written in French, that describes the geography of Palestine, including hundreds of its cities and villages. The book also includes pull-out maps of the Holy Land. In these maps, towns are identified all over the Holy...

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A Burglary Motivated by Racism

A Burglary Motivated by Racism

Haaaretz journalists Gideon Levy and Alex Levac reported on a West Bank burglary case in 2020 in which a small Palestinian business was repeatedly burglarized by Jewish settlers. Was this burglary motivated by racism? Mohammed Mahmadi, 29, left his restaurant job in...

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Curt’s Hebron

Curt’s Hebron

Curtis Bell, President of Unitarian Universalists for Justice in the Middle East, spoke to the First Unitarian Church’s Department of Social Justice about his two months in Hebron and what he learned about the Palestinian experience under Israeli occupation. Video...

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Virginia Tech GPSS

Virginia Tech GPSS

The Graduate and Professional Student Senate (GPSS) at Virginia Tech passed a resolution in October 2021 demanding that the University’s administration enact an academic boycott of Israel and institutions “complicit in maintaining the Israeli occupation.” The...

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