Most Americans know little or nothing about the people of Gaza – or Palestinians in general. Here is a small step toward closing that knowledge gap.
What Americans Need to Know about Gaza and Israel Right Now
Category: History
For more information on the history of the Israel/Palestine conflict, please see IfAmericansKnew.org
Forest Against the Trees: Zionist monocrops erase Palestinian history
One diaspora Palestinian describes her journey to find her family’s destroyed village of Ibdis – and offers a fascinating lesson in Israel’s history of covering up its crimes to help us understand what she found.
Zionist role in 1950s attacks on Iraqi Jews confirmed by operative & police report
British-Israeli historian Avi Shlaim cites ‘incontrovertible evidence’ from former Jewish agent showing Zionists bombed sites to encourage migration to Israel…
Palestinians Still Pay a Heavy Price for Israel’s Independence
For 75 years, Israel has denied its dispossession and expulsion of the Palestinians. Now, belatedly, the international community must recognize the Nakba
Sacred Christian site Emmaus destroyed by Israel
In 1967 Israel ordered the razing of Emmaus (the site where the Bible says the resurrected Jesus broke bread with two of his disciples). Israeli soldiers forced the inhabitants to trek for days to refuge – 22 people & an infant died. Israel then built its famous Canada Park on the location. This was part of a long pattern of Israeli attacks on Christian sites… (see video)
Bezalel Smotrich calls a lie “the biblical truth”
Parroting the Israel “history” fantasy that Netanyahu has been peddling, extremist Israeli lawmaker Bezalel Smotrich told an audience, “Palestinian people are an invention…This is the biblical truth.”
Netanyahu purveyed a fictional history of Israel to Jordan Peterson
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is peddling a fanciful narrative of Israel’s history that bears no resemblance to the truth. We provide the real facts here, comprehensively annotated and easily verifiable.
Israel’s little-known concentration and labor camps (1948-1955)
It is shocking that this happened in Palestine just a few years after the Nazi regime was defeated and its concentration camp prisoners (many of them Jews) were freed.
Author Martin Sandler says Mossad may have assassinated JFK
Martin Sandler, award winning author of books and textbooks on U.S. history, suggests Israel’s Mossad may have assassinated JFK. He was speaking at John F. Kennedy Museum in Hyannis, Massachusetts on November 6, 2013.
A Christmas Tree Brings Life to a Destroyed Palestinian Village
For former residents of Iqrit, where Israeli forces leveled everything but the church in 1951, religious rituals bind them to a place from which they were expelled.