The current situation in Gaza and Israel is not what mainstream media reports portray. Here is the factual context and chronology, including videos…
What is behind the latest Israel-Gaza violence?
Tags: Nakba
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
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.
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.
No, the UN did not create Israel – its war of ethnic cleansing did it
The common representation of Israel’s birth is that the UN created Israel, that the world was in favor of this move, and that the US governmental establishment supported it. All these assumptions are demonstrably incorrect…
Israeli lawmaker regrets that ethnic cleansing of Palestinians was not completed
Plenty of Israel partisans deny or explain away the Nakba – the ethnic cleansing of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians c.1948 – but Israeli political leader Bezalel Smotrich openly admits it, and wishes it had gone further.
UK Labour Party votes Yes to motion calling Israel an apartheid state
The UK Labor Conference also condemned the ongoing Nakba in Palestine, as well as Israel’s attacks on the Al Aqsa mosque, forced displacements from Sheikh Jarrah, and the deadly assault on Gaza.
Dear Star Parker, please take this crash course on the facts about Israel
A respected journalist, apparently misinformed about history and current events in Israel, has unfortunately shared with her readers several inaccuracies about Israel and the people of Palestine. Her misunderstandings are not uncommon. If Americans Knew offers corrections.
Palestinian Refugees Deserve the Right to Return Home. Jews Should Understand.
Prominent commentator Peter Beinart writes in NY Times: Jewish people cling to their right of return, but deny Palestinians the right to do the same. The longer justice is delayed, the longer the Palestinian Nakba – and the Jewish moral exile – will continue.