1948 Nakba War of Independence

1948 Nakba War of Independence

Testimonies and classified documents about Israel’s atrocities from the 1948 Nakba/War of Independence, including previously obscured massacres, are beginning to be revealed despite attempts to conceal them. While Israel’s Malmab unit (Hebrew acronym which stands for...

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Israeli Civil Administration

Israeli Civil Administration

Haaretz obtained an Israeli Civil Administration internal document which includes a map and Excel sheet titled “Operations Room C.” The document lists 1,168 tip-offs submitted via the online form “Report on Suspected Violations of Planning and Construction Laws”...

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My Name Is Rachel Corrie

My Name Is Rachel Corrie

Israel Social TV interviews the director and actors of the play “My Name is Rachel Corrie.” The play is based on American activist Rachel Corrie’s diary and takes place among the resistance movement to Israel’s home demolitions of 2003. The video is in Hebrew with...

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Wanted Poster of Irgun and Lehi Members

Wanted Poster of Irgun and Lehi Members

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.”...

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British Capture and Occupation of Palestine

British Capture and Occupation of Palestine

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...

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Israeli Checkpoint at Separation Wall

Israeli Checkpoint at Separation Wall

Israel decided to construct the Separation Barrier in 2002 following a series of Palestinian attacks. The barrier prevents West Bank Palestinians without permits from entering Israel. It also supports the illegal annexation of Palestinian land in the West Bank and has...

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British Soldiers Arrest Palestinians

British Soldiers Arrest Palestinians

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...

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Israel’s Military Occupation

Israel’s Military Occupation

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,...

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Six-Day War of 1967, Palestinian Refugees

Six-Day War of 1967, Palestinian Refugees

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...

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Where Is the Palestinian Mandela?

Where Is the Palestinian Mandela?

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?...

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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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Wallace Shawn

Wallace Shawn

Playwright and actor Wallace Shawn, best known for his role as Vizzini in The Princess Bride, translated an Anti-Defamation League (ADL) ad that blamed Palestinians for Israel’s mass slaughter of Gazan children. The ad featured and endorsed a statement from the former...

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Rafael Silver

Rafael Silver

Rafael Silver is a Jewish Israeli and a combat veteran of the Israeli army. In a 2022 Mondoweiss op-ed, Silver shared why he left Israel and moved to Canada: “I felt that I could no longer be a part of a system that practices apartheid against the Palestinian...

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Miriam Margolyes

Miriam Margolyes

British-Australian actress and writer Miriam Margolyes, best known for her award-winning role in The Age of Innocence, shared in an interview about her life as a Jewish anti-Zionist. She said: “We have to be able to criticize Israel.”

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Tantura Women, Children, Elderly

Tantura Women, Children, Elderly

The expulsion of Tantura women, children, and elderly from Furaydis to Jordan as the Red Cross supervises June 1948 Courtesy of Israel State Archives from Ben Rothenberg Collection Via Forward.com

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Tantura

Tantura

“Tantura” is a documentary by Israeli director Alon Schwarz which examines why it is taboo to discuss the Nakba in Israel. Tantura is the name of a Palestinian village in which, one week after the creation of the state of Israel in 1948, Jewish forces massacred more...

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