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How is Palestine and Arab Jews are presented in Israeli School Books (A MUST VIEW)

by Haitham Sabbah December 4, 2011

Prof. Nurit Peled-Elhanan analyzes the presentation of images, maps, layouts and use of language in History, Geography and Civic Studies textbooks, and reveals how the books marginalize Palestinians, legitimize Israeli military massacres against Palestinians and reinforce Jewish-Israeli territorial identity.

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Israel Classifies its Past as Top Secret – by Lawrence Davidson

by Lawrence Davidson August 2, 2010

By Lawrence Davidson* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz Israel is a land built on myths. It is, of course, not unique in this. Indeed in this way Israel is very much like its patron, the United States. In order to build and maintain a mythical status a nation must create a picture of itself from [...]

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Richard Forer – Cutting Through the Confusion About Israel/Palestine (Must Read)

by SR Editor June 25, 2010

By Richard Forer* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz In the spring of 2009, I was a member of a group that put up a billboard criticizing Israel’s lethal use of force during Operation Cast Lead in Gaza. A year later, the group received a letter from a college student – referred to as “J” below [...]

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America Held Hostage: Year 62

by SR Editor May 15, 2010

By Sina Alavi | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz “Educate and inform the whole mass of the people… They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.” -Thomas Jefferson We are approaching another ominous anniversary in American History without anyone acknowledging it- not even a peep from the mainstream media. When Iranian students [...]

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In The Name Of Greater Israel

by Anait Brutian March 23, 2010

By Anait Brutian* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz On February 2, 2010, the Israeli Knesset held the inaugural meeting of The Lobby for Greater Israel. According to Knesset members Arye Eldad (National Union), “This kind of lobby should have been unnecessary … We could have expected that after disengagement [from Gaza and parts of northern [...]

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At NYU, devilish Shlomo Sand predicts the Jewish past and pastes the Zionists

by SR Editor October 19, 2009

by Philip Weiss Of all the events I’ve covered surrounding Jewish identity and Israel in the last year, none has given me so much pleasure as the lecture last night by Shlomo Sand at NYU on the Invention of the Jewish People. Most events I go to are grinding, awful, heartrending, often with lamentations and [...]

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October in Palestine

by Mazin Qumsiyeh October 9, 2009

By Mazin Qumsiyeh It happened in October in Palestine (*) October 1920: The Zionist ruler of Palestine and British official Herbert Samuel issues decrees that facilitate transfer of lands from natives to immigrants setting the stage for the beginning of the ethnic cleansing policies that continue to this day. 27 October 1933: Musa Kadhem AlHusaini [...]

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Israel Steals Palestinian Heritage, History

by SR Editor May 26, 2009

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 Israel Antiquities Authority to host “Dead Sea Scrolls: Words that Changed the World” from June 27 to January 3, 2010. Palestinian Archaeological Department Director-General Hamdan [...]

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Holocaust and Holodomor (Origins of Anti Semitism)

by SR Editor May 24, 2009

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 [...]

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Clash of civilisations? Jürgen Todenhöfer’s corrective

by Ann El Khoury November 16, 2008

Earlier 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 [...]

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Kfar Kassem massacre – How can an order be given to shoot children?

by Haitham Sabbah October 29, 2008

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 [...]

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Jewish Scholar – ‘Jewish People’ Were Invented

by Haitham Sabbah October 10, 2008

Israeli 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 Jewish [...]

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Links: Daily Roundup

by Haitham Sabbah October 1, 2008

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 [...]

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If Silwan’s Stones Could Speak

by Haitham Sabbah June 12, 2008

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 [...]

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Today in History: Hebron Massacre – 1994

by Haitham Sabbah February 25, 2008

14 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. [...]

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