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.
Category: History
For more information on the history of the Israel/Palestine conflict, please see IfAmericansKnew.org
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.
Ilan Pappé on Israel’s Relentless War against Palestinian Children
Palestinian children are dying at a startling rate – and it’s totally preventable. Israel must simply stop killing them.
Israeli forces poisoned Palestinian wells during Israel’s founding war… and after
‘”Place the Material in the Wells..” Documents from Israeli archives reveal the Israeli army’s 1948 biological warfare… Some oral testimonies have previously reported this – now two Israeli historians have found the ‘smoking gun’..plus recent reports of Israelis poisoning Palestinian wells…
Israel’s history of biological warfare & poisoning – violations of int’l law
In 1948 Israel waged a clandestine operation to poison Palestinian wells & spread typhoid. In recent years its secret agents have poisoned people…
Palestinian hunger strikes: growing resistance against growing Israeli crimes
Over 1 million Palestinians have been held in Israeli prisons over the years. Thousands have been held in “administrative detention,” which means imprisonment without a trial or even charges. More & more, Palestinian prisoners are protesting this barely-legal practice through hunger strikes. Frail, emaciated Palestinians make Israel very nervous.
Queen Elizabeth boycotted Israel, Charles hoped for “freedom, justice & equality to all Palestinians”
Queen Elizabeth was horrified by Israel’s occupation of Palestine, & refused invitations to visit Israel. In 2020 Prince Charles, on a trip to the West Bank, expressed his heartbreak over witnessing the ‘suffering’ and ‘hardship’ endured by the Palestinian population under Israeli occupation… He said his “dearest wish” was that the future would bring “freedom, justice and equality to all Palestinians…”
Over 120 Countries, but Never Israel: Queen Elizabeth’s Unofficial Boycott
In her 70-year reign, Queen Elizabeth crisscrossed the globe, but purposely skipped Israel. In 1984, during a visit to Jordan, she found the settlements ‘depressing’ and IDF planes over the West Bank frightening… For decades, the British royal family had boycotted Israel. It wasn’t an official boycott, but it was often unofficially acknowledged by officials…