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,...
Israelis Against Apartheid is a group of more than 1,500 Jewish Israeli citizens who seek to end Israel’s apartheid system. They have released several open letters since October 2023 calling for the immediate end of Israel’s assault on Gaza, including the October 18,...
A national park in the occupied West Bank has become an epicenter of conflict due to its complicated history. Canada Park was built upon the remains of several depopulated Palestinian villages on the outskirts of Jerusalem. In 1948, more than 400 villages and 11...
Al-Haq is an independent Palestinian non-governmental organization (NGO) based in Ramallah, West Bank in occupied Palestine. Established in 1979, the NGO promotes human rights by documenting violations against the “individual and collective rights of Palestinian”...
Addameer Association is a prisoner support group and human rights organization founded in 1991. In this video, several Palestinian men and women share their stories of administrative detention, arrest, and imprisonment in the occupied territories of Palestine. Family...
Al-Haq is an independent Palestinian non-governmental organization based in Ramallah, West Bank in occupied Palestine. Established in 1979, the NGO (non-governmental agency) promotes human rights by documenting violations against the “individual and collective rights...
The Union of Agricultural Work Committees (UAWC) is a Palestinian NGO that works on agricultural land development, water interventions, and legal awareness in the farming community of Gaza and the West Bank. In this video, the UAWC describes their Local Seed Bank...
Howard Lisnoff wrote about “The Long View of Palestine, Israel and War” in a piece for Counter Punch. In the article, he reflects on the history of Zionism in Israel and the dehumanization of Palestinians. He aptly points out that critiquing Zionism and occupation...
Since October 7, 2023, the world has watched the government of Israel drop more than 6,000 bombs and launch more than 7,000 missiles into the territory of Gaza, causing damage the equivalent of 2 nuclear bombs. The military operation is in retaliation to a Hamas-led...
Documentary Chronicles Destruction of Palestinian Community The 2024 Documentary, No Other Land, won the United States’s highest film award for a documentary feature, netting an Oscar at the 97th Academy Awards for Best Documentary Feature. The film’s path from...
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...
Jews Step Forward is a confessional documentary featuring 24 Jewish activists who “deconstruct Zionism” against a backdrop of searing, on-the-ground images and footage of atrocities perpetrated by Jewish citizens and military against Palestinian men and women....
In May 1916, British diplomat Mark Sykes and French diplomat François Georges-Picot concluded a secret agreement partitioning much of the Arab lands of the Ottoman Empire into British and French spheres of influence pending an allied victory in World War I. When the...
The British Government issued the Balfour Declaration in 1917 — a public statement expressing support for a "national home for the Jewish people" in Palestine. This marked a watershed moment in the history of Zionism, British politics, and Arab independence,...