“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...
Burying the Nakba features an investigative report by Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz that uncovered a vast conspiracy by the Israeli government to conceal evidence of the Nakba – the 1948 expulsion of Palestinian people from their homes. This report included a 1948...
Originally based in Jerusalem (now in Tel Aviv), the Israeli newspaper, Ha’aretz (meaning "the land" or "the country”), is the oldest and longest-running daily newspaper in the country of Israel. Founded before Israel was a sovereign nation, it is the 3rd largest...
The Ongoing Nakba is a publication commemorating the 70th anniversary of the Nakba, the 1948 Palestinian exodus during the Arab-Israeli War. New York-based peace group, Jews Say No, serves as the sponsor and publisher. The publication aims to provide a “moral...
From Local Activism to a Global Rallying Cry In the shadow of Operation Cast Lead, the three-week war in Gaza in late 2008–2009, a group of Jewish peace activists came together to say to the Israeli Government “No. Not in our name.” Specifically, they have called for...
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 was a Palestinian village once located near the city of Tulkarm in the West Bank. It is surrounded by natural wonders like Mount Nablus and the Sharon Plain and had once been inhabited by mostly Palestinian families. The village of Qaqun, along with hundreds of...
Eitan Bronstein Aparicio is the Founder of Zochrot, a Tel Aviv-based organization dedicated to “disseminating historical information about the Palestinian Nakba.” He served as Director from its founding in 2002 until 2011. Aparicio is the author of numerous articles,...
“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...