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...
Palestinians subjected to war crimes by the United Kingdom have presented a 300-page dossier of evidence, asking for a formal acknowledgement of and apology for the abuses committed by British forces during their rule from 1917 to 1948. The BBC has reviewed the...
This play is adapted from the testimonies of Israeli soldiers from Israeli veterans’ organization Breaking the Silence, whose vivid memories of the realities of occupation continue to haunt them. See more about Breaking the Silence here:...
For the first time, six former heads of the Shin Bet agency, Israel’s secret service in charge of overseeing Israel’s war on terror, publicly share their reflections on their actions. Year: 2013 Time: 101 minutes Watch the film’s trailer:...
In the January 2009 offensive on Gaza, over 1,300 Palestinians were killed. More than 300 of them were children. This award-winning documentary follows the lives of four Gazan children over the course of a year and gives unique insight into the impacts of war. Year:...
Friends since childhood, young Palestinians Khaled and Said are recruited to carry out a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv. After a last night with their families without being allowed to say goodbye, they are taken to the border with bombs strapped to their bodies....
Breaking the Silence is an organization of Israeli military veterans who share their stories to the Israeli public about their experiences as soldiers facing civilians in the Occupied Territories. The organization collects video testimonials from these soldiers for...
American Rachel Corrie was an advocate for poor and underserved populations from an early age. In this video, we see Rachel as a fifth grader imploring for equal treatment for those around us as well as those in third-world countries. We also see images from the...
Remembering Muslims Who Risked Their Lives to Save Jews During the Holocaust Mohammad Mesli barely knew his father--he died in 1961 when Mohammad was only a young boy. But a few years ago, he found a suitcase filled with documentation of his father’s secret life as an...
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) website describes its official doctrine of ethics, “The Spirit of the IDF,” as the army’s moral compass, which includes their three core values: The defense of the state, its citizens, and residents; Patriotism and loyalty to the state;...
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?...
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...
Dr. Joshua Shanes, Associate Professor of Jewish Studies and Director of the Arnold Center for Israel Studies at the College of Charleston in South Carolina wrote an article for Haaretz titled “Liberal Zionists, Face the Facts: There’s Already Only One State From the...
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...
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...
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.”
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
“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...