Safed is a city of the Upper Galilee and one of the oldest cities of historic Palestine. Safed is an ancient town mentioned in writings by Titus Flavius Josephus, a first-century Romano-Jewish historian and military leader. Palestine Open Maps shows how Safed has been...
Yaffa (or Jaffa, or Yafo in Hebrew) is an ancient port city that, prior to the Nakba, was the largest city in Palestine. These photos from the early 1900s show Yaffa as a growing commercial city with train tracks, ships, and automobiles. The few thousand Palestinians...
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...
The Ministerial Committee on the Matter of Permission to Examine Classified Archival Material works within the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office to censor documents at the government’s recommendation. The full list of censored documents have been revealed for the first...
What happened in 1948? It's the question that haunts the Israel/Palestine dynamic and defines so much of the conflict. This documentary strips back the layers of myth, from denial to stories of mass genocide, telling the real story through the hidden remains of the...
Christianity was born in Palestine two thousand years ago. From there it spread throughout the Middle East and to the rest of the world. Yet many are unaware Christians still live in the land. For more than 60 years, the Palestinians, Christians, and Muslims have...
Promised Land Museum Curator Dr. Steven Feldman recently spoke with Peter Larson of Canada Talks Israel Palestine (CTIP) about rethinking the Israeli-Palestinian relationship. “American Jews have been on the front lines of anti-discrimination efforts inside the USA”,...
On November 23, 2020, OFIP hosted a webinar with Dr. Rashid Khalidi discussing his book "The Hundred Years' War on Palestine." Dr. Khalidi is the Edward Said Chair of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University in New York. He has a PhD from Oxford University and is...
In this Ottawa Forum on Israel/Palestine (OFIP) webinar, Zochrot activists Rachel Beitarie and Umar Al-Ghubari discuss their struggle to get Israelis to recognize the Nakba and engage in a practical discussion about the Palestinian right to return. Zochrot...
In 1922, the League of Nations held a census of Palestine. In its introductory report, the census takers describe dividing up well-defined quarters to reflect the different religions that cohabitated in the same villages. The data shows 78% of Palestine’s inhabitants...
Ayelet is a 16-year-old trans teen and activist in the Mesarvot network, an Israeli organization that supports war resisters and political objectors. She wrote a letter to the Refuser Solidarity Network to share her accounts of Israel’s pinkwashing (displaying...
Judy Haiven is a Jewish writer and activist living in Nova Scotia. She was formerly a professor of business and management at Saint Mary’s University. Haiven is a founder of Equity Watch, a human rights organization dedicated to fighting bullying and discrimination in...
Sari Bashi is a Jewish Israeli lawyer and Program Director at Human Rights Watch. In her book Maqluba – Upside Down Love (in Hebrew), she describes how she met and fell in love with her Palestinian husband. They are currently raising their children in the West Bank....
Etan Nechin is an Israeli journalist whose writing has appeared in The New York Times, Haaretz, Vice, Jacobin, Jewish Currents, and more. He is the online editor of The Bare Life Review: a Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Literature. In a 2020 op-ed for Forward,...
Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield are the Jewish American founders of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream. The duo came under fire in 2021 when they announced they would halt ice cream sales in the illegally occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem. Cohen responded: “If I care...