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By Karin Friedemann
Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayad has made a formal complaint to the Canadian government regarding the intention of Toronto's Royal Ontario Museum to collaborate with the [...]
By Nicholas Lyssson
1. ROLE OF JEWS IN UKRAINIAN FAMINE
One might think the worst holocaust deniers—at least the only ones who command serious attention—are those who insist the Nazi holocaust, as it involved the Jews only, was without parallel.
Guenter Lewy argues for example in The Nazi Persecution of the Gypsies (Oxford University Press, 2000) that while the [...]
Also tagged Anti-Semitism, Hitler, Holocaust, Holodomor, Israel, Jews, Nazi, russia, Ukraine, ZionismEarlier this year an extensive advertorial was published in The New York Times by author Jürgen Todenhöfer, based on his book Why Do You Kill Zaid?
The author has also made sections of the book freely available online (http://www.whydoyoukillzaid.com/en/mainmenu/home.html — in German, English, Arabic and Persian) and is donating all of the royalties to finance medical [...]
Today in history is another black day in the Palestinian history.
1. On October 29, 1948, when Israeli brigades captured the village of Safsaf. The known details of the massacre come to us via several contemporary second-hand Zionist reports and via Arab oral history. Yosef Nachmani, a senior officer in the Haganah (and later the director [...]
Also tagged Dawayima, Israel, Kraf-Qasem, Kufr Qasim, Massacre, occupation, Palestine, palestinian, Safsaf, terror, Terrorism, Terrorist, War Crimes, War-Crime, ZionismIsraeli Bestseller Breaks National Taboo
by Jonathan Cook
No one is more surprised than Shlomo Sand that his latest academic work has spent 19 weeks on Israel's bestseller list – and that success has come to the history professor despite his book challenging Israel's biggest taboo.
Dr. Sand argues that the idea of a [...]
YouTube - All I Got's Gone
Ernest Stoneman's recording "All I Got's Gone" (1928). Film footage from 1937 film: Telephone Operator. Music and video are in the public domain.
Israel and Complete 911 Timeline
1987: Hamas Forms with the Support of Israeli Intelligence. Sheikh Ahmed Yassin forms Hamas as the military arm of his Islamic Association, which had [...]
Above: A map showing the area of Silwan threatened with demolition and settlement expansion, including an indicator of the area in which settlements already exist. As highlighted on the map, Silwan as well as the adjacent villages of Tur and Ras Al Amud will be on the western side of the Wall, as Jerusalem is [...]
Also tagged Palestine, Silwan14 Years of Lessons after Al-Ibrahimi Mosque Massacre - A Memorial History for the 30 Palestinian Martyrs
The story:
The dawn of Friday 15 Ramadan 1414 a.h. / 25 February 1994 marked the first of three massacres perpetrated by Israeli settlers accompanied by the Israeli Army. There were more than 30 martyrs and 270 injured. The main [...]
A while ago, I was doing my -almost- daily check to see requests of new bloggers to be added to Palestine Blogs. One of the requests was from an Israeli student, Shahaf Ifhar, who just returned to Israel after 3-year programme in London called Olive Tree, which beings Palestinian and Israeli students together to live [...]
Also tagged Declaration, Independence, Israel, lieToday in history is another black day in the Palestinian history.
Following post was published a year ago in the same occasion:
Oct. 29th massacres in Palestine history and Ben Gurion wonders: "How can an order be given to shoot children?"
Starting from the oldest:
1. On October 29, 1948, when Israeli brigades captured the village of Safsaf. The [...]
Spare half an hour of your weekend time to watch this doc. video about some of the destroyed Palestinian villages and the Israeli settlements which occupied their places:
[Hat tip: Robin]
Also tagged Israel, occupation, Palestine, Settlements, Videos, War CrimesAs most of you know, Dr. Haidar Abdel Shafi died. Abdel-Shafi was the chief Palestinian negotiator at Madrid Peace Conference - 1991. At the time, Abdel-Shafi and the other Palestinian delegates had to participate as members of the Jordanian delegation, because Israel was then refusing to recognize that Palestinians exist and/or talk to the PLO [...]
Also tagged Haidar-Abdel-Shafi, PalestineEven my 9 years old boy liked this documentary movies about Palestinian history (in Arabic) and learned something new from it:
http://tinyurl.com/2s73ty
French philosopher Alain Badiou gave this interview to Le Monde last week. The original title was about the crisis of the intellectual Left. While the first two questions focused on the crisis of the French Left, most of the interview was about the particularisms lying at the foundations of Israel as a Jewish only [...]
Also tagged Guest Blogger, Israel, Judaism, Middle East, Palestine, ZionismToday marks the 40th sad anniversary of 'Naksa' (setback), as Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser described the defeat in his resignation announcement on the fifth day if the 'Six Day War'.
On June 5th 1967, the Israel occupation forces launched 'Operation Focus', which toke by surprise three Arab armies; the Egyptian, Jordanian and Syrian and ended [...]
