The Passover story should remind us of the risk of allowing collective punishment to become normalized – for the people of Palestine, of Iran, Lebanon, or any marginalized group.
Passover: Liberation and collective punishment
Category: History
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Iran’s Alleged 47-Year War on America: Debunking the 1,050 American Deaths Canard
The myth that Iranians or their proxies killed Americans because they hated our freedoms is untrue—It was invented by Israeli/neocon propagandists to fuel that Big Lie that Iran has been “attacking” America for nearly five decades.
Land Day and the Palestinian struggle after 30 months of genocide
Land Day is the annual acknowledgement of the crime scene. Why should a people being erased also have to edit their own testimony into a tone acceptable to those who looked away?
Don’t Be Fooled. Zionist Leaders Have Always Wanted to Control Southern Lebanon
In a timeline from 1918 to now, historian Zachary Foster shows Zionists and Israeli leaders have wanted to occupy, annex, and dominate Lebanon since long before the existence of Hezbollah.
War on Iran: These are the heritage sites devastated by US and Israeli attacks
From Isfahan to Tehran to Khorramabad, Israeli and American strikes have damaged landmarks, including some inscribed by UNESCO.
Pentagon insider says high U.S official Douglas Feith reported to Netanyahu
Pentagon insider, senior enlisted leader of nearly three decades standing, Command Chief Master Sergeant, Retired, Dennis Fritz describes what he saw in the Pentagon leading up to the Iraq War: Each cabinet official had an individual who they would talk to in Israel to keep them posted on what we were doing…
In fond memory of Walid Khalidi, the historian of Palestine
Walid Khalidi may be remembered as the diplomatic gentleman-scholar who became one of Palestine’s greatest historians. But he was also a teacher, a leader, and a pioneer whose life was entirely devoted to and consumed by the question of Palestine.
‘Dirty Work’ :The truth about how Israel was founded
In their first years of statehood, Israelis were well aware of the ethnic cleansing they had perpetrated, They had watched bulldozers destroy ancient villages, and planted trees that covered up the crime…
When Presbyterians Fought Christian Zionism
In 2002, 131 theologians posted “An Open Letter” that was a scathing critique of Christian Zionism. They had the courage to do something that theologians don’t seem to have the courage to do these days: proclaim the theology they believe in. What has changed? The reality is that what gets taught in protestant churches is primarily determined by what does not offend wealthy donors – and almost all these donors are Zionists.
‘Terror Was Needed to Make Arabs Leave’: What the Israeli Army Did in 1948, Revealed
Thousands of newly discovered documents now make it possible to tell the true story of Israel’s expulsion of Palestinians in 1948 – and to begin to grasp its bitter implications, post-October 7