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Even Ben-Gurion Thought ‘Most Jews Are Thieves’ –Ha’aretz

[email protected] October 5, 2020 Arab, ben gurion, ethnic cleansing, history, Israel, Nakba, Palestine

The authorities turned a blind eye and thus encouraged the looting, despite all the denunciations, the pretense and a few ridiculous trials. The looting served a national purpose: to quickly complete the ethnic cleansing of most of the country of its Arabs, and to see to it that 700,000 refugees would never even imagine returning to their homes… A first-ever comprehensive study reveals the extent to which Jews looted Palestinian property during the War of Independence…

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Is the United Nations anti-Israel? – a survey of UN resolutions

[email protected] September 16, 2020 1967 war, annexation, apartheid, icj, intifada, Jerusalem, Nakba, nonproliferation treaty, nuclear weapon, occupation, refugee, resolution 194, resolution 242, separation wall, settlement, south africa

The United Nations has passed an inordinate number of resolutions critical of Israel (at least seven hundred), but very few critical of Palestine. Is there a good reason for this high number, or is this a case of anti-Israel bias? – or worse yet, anti-Semitism? This analysis breaks it down.

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Remembering Palestine on Nakba Day: Use the Hashtag COVID1948

[email protected] May 15, 2020 analysis, coronavirus, Covid19, ethnic cleansing, history, Nakba, Palestine

The hashtag #COVID1948 seeks to equate the current devastation resulting from the coronavirus with the catastrophe that occurred to the Palestinian people in 1948 at the hands of the Israelis. It is reportedly trending on social media and is in one sense an eloquent reminder of the wrongs committed against an entire people, to include a deliberate policy of ethnic cleansing that bore fruit in 1948-9.

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Israel: democracy or apartheid state?

[email protected] September 18, 2019 analysis, apartheid, basic laws, desmond tutu, discrimination, Nakba, nation-state law, racism, syrian refugees

Racism was part of the birth of the state of Israel; apartheid is part of its fabric. Nelson Mandela agreed. Palestinians struggle for equality, as do people of color (both Jewish and non-Jewish).

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How Israel Systematically Hides Evidence of 1948 Expulsion of Arabs

[email protected] July 15, 2019 Censorship, history, Nakba

Ha’aretz reports that Israeli officials have scoured local archives and removed troves of historic documents to conceal proof of the ethnic cleansing that established Israel, including documents reporting rapes, looting, the demolition of villages, and killing of civilians…. General Peled: “My platoon blew up 20 homes with everything that was there.” Lev Tov: “While people were sleeping there?” Peled: “I suppose so….”

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Media ignore, disparage, or misrepresent Palestinian Right of Return

[email protected] March 21, 2019 analysis, Gaza, Great March of Return, Nakba, new york times, refugees, right of return, un resolution 3236, Wall Street Journal, washington post

A FAIR study finds that major US news outlets rarely mention the Right of Return, although it is a primary part of the Israel/Palestine issue. In the last ten years, only 0.01 percent of coverage of Palestinians or Palestine in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Washington Post informs its audience about the right of return or even mentions it at all. When they do mention it, they generally imply that it is not a legitimate, UN-conferred right; or they describe the exercise of that right as an act of aggression/national “suicide” for Israel.

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Alison Weir: advocating for Palestine 18 years and counting

[email protected] March 16, 2019 against our better judgment, AIPAC, Alison Weir, eyewitness, Gaza, history, intifada, Nakba

Eighteen years ago this month, Alison Weir returned from her eye-opening, independent trip to Palestine. Many people feel that she may be the Palestinians’ most enduring and relentless advocate.

Her tireless work includes meticulous media analysis, writing, speaking, and educating Americans (and justice-lovers around the world) about the little-known facts of the Nakba (“Catastrophe”), the oppression that Israel has been perpetrating on Palestinians for over seventy years, and how the United States, pressured by the Israel lobby, is complicit.

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VIDEO: History suppressed: Censorship in Israel’s archives

[email protected] November 23, 2018 1948 war, Censorship, haganah, history, Israel archive, Nakba, occupation, zionism

Troves of looted Palestinian books, documents, photographs and films from as early as the 1930s are sealed in Israel’s archives and libraries. Palestinians see the censorship as part of a wider trend of physical and cultural erasure continues to this day. Concealing the archival record denies Palestinians the tools to communicate their own history.

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My grandfather Nelson Mandela fought apartheid. I see the parallels with Israel

[email protected] October 11, 2018 apartheid, BDS, children, discrimination, Nakba, occupation, prisoners, segregation wall, solidarity, south africa, zionism

While my country has long been free from racist minority rule, the world is not yet free of the crime of apartheid. I see the eerie similarities between Israel’s racial laws and policies towards Palestinians, and the architecture of apartheid in South Africa. We South Africans know apartheid when we see it. In fact, many recognise that, in some respects, Israel’s regime of oppression is even worse.

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Let’s talk about the text of Israel’s new Nation-State Law

[email protected] July 21, 2018 apartheid, arabic, basic law, Jerusalem, Nakba, nakba law, nation-state law, Netanyahu, self-determination, settlement, zionism

Israel’s new Nation-State Law gives Jews exclusive right to self-determination; names Jerusalem as united capital; prioritizes ingathering of exiles and Jewish-only communities.

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