For more information on the history of the Israel/Palestine conflict, please see IfAmericansKnew.org
Israel had already been limiting the movement of goods and people between Gaza and the West Bank at least since the early 1990s. In 2006, after Hamas won 74 out of 132 seats in the Palestinian legislative elections, Israel escalated its blockade.
Is Israel singled out for rebuke on the world stage? Quite the opposite: it has enjoyed a free ride until the current war with Gaza.
Starvation, unsanitary conditions, and bodies beneath the rubble have almost certainly contributed to a death toll much higher than what we have heard.
In “Our Palestine Question,” Geoffrey Levin, assistant professor of Middle Eastern and Jewish studies at Emory University, recovers the voices of those Jews who first called for an honest reckoning of the plight of Israel’s Palestinian population.
76 years later, Palestinian return to the homes and lands we were expelled from in 1948 is feasible and, of course, legal. To Palestinians, it is also sacred and inevitable.
This highly respected scholar was subjected to hostile questioning by US intelligence officers – including “do you support Hamas?” and “do you think what’s happening in Gaza is genocide?” Also find here Pappe’s comments on the West’s “sinister” denial of the unfolding events in Palestine
Jacques de Reynier, Red Cross representative in Jerusalem in 1948, is considered the most prominent eyewitness to the Deir Yassin massacre, part of the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians to make way for Israel. Here is his account, translated from the French.
A look at the history of Israel’s Film and Theater Review Board reveals its major role in shaping the cultural image of the young state – and our worldview too
Israel and its partisans frequently emphasize Hamas’s 1988 charter, while failing to mention that Hamas issued a new document in 2017…
Israeli soldiers have raped & sexually assaulted Palestinian women & girls from Israel’s 1948 founding war through the present – see multiple reports, including video testimony by Israeli historian Ilan Pappé