This historic map, detailing the buildings and structures of the once-vibrant village of Qaqun, has been preserved for decades and now resides in Palestine Remembered archive. Located in the West Bank, Qaqun people settled the area as early as the 8th century BCE and...
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...
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)...
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...
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...
“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...