Israel accused of trickery to snatch refugee lands
Palestinian leaders in Israel have warned that they suspect the Israeli government is behind recent efforts to trick the families of refugees from the 1948 war into signing away the rights to their...
View ArticleDecades on, Israel tries to bury its darkest times
Details of the biggest massacre committed by Israeli soldiers during the 1948 war have finally surfaced, decades after the documentation was locked away. Israel is still trying to silence its army's...
View ArticleNakba survivors share their stories of loss and hope
"I am sure one day I will return to Saffuriya," Ameen Muhammad Ali says of a Palestinian village only two kilometres outside Nazareth that Israel destroyed during the Nakba in 1948. He pauses, then...
View ArticleWhy Israel is blocking access to its archives
Israel is locking away millions of official documents to prevent the darkest episodes in its history from coming to light, civil rights activists and academics have warned as the country's state...
View ArticleShimon Peres obituary: Peacemaker or war criminal?
The death of Shimon Peres, aged 93, marks the departure of the last major figure in Israel's founding generation. Peres spent his long political career in the public spotlight, but his greatest...
View ArticleHow Israel seeks to erase the region’s history
The chauvinism implicit in a new Israeli foreign ministry video portraying Jacob and Rachel as the only normal folk, stoicly enduring barbarians butchering each other in their living room, is ugly...
View ArticleEx-ambassador: Israel used my father to cover up ethnic cleansing
A former Dutch ambassador planted 1,100 olive trees in the West Bank on Sunday to make amends, he said, for the fact that Israel had exploited his family’s name to “cover up an act of ethnic...
View ArticleThe fantasy at the centre of Israel’s ‘muezzin bill’
The forest fires that ravaged Israel over the weekend inadvertently drew attention to the deeper goal of Netanyahu's "muezzin bill". For many Israelis, the call to prayer threatens the contrived...
View ArticleAn unlikely dramatic hero, poet Taha Muhammad Ali, takes center stage
The one-man show “Taha” receives its English-language premiere this week in the United States. It offers not only a rare chance to learn about Taha Muhammad Ali, one of Palestine’s finest poets, but...
View ArticleIsraeli police block Palestinian ‘March of Return’
The annual "March of Return" by Palestinians in Israel, commemorating the Nakba - the expulsion of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from their homes in 1948 - has been blocked by the Israeli...
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