In June 1948, Israeli forces opened fire and sank the boat in waters off Tel Aviv on the orders of David Ben Gurion, Israel's first prime minister.
South Africa’s application to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) instituting proceedings against Israel for violating the UN Genocide Convention sent U.S. officials into a frenzy. More than 200 ...
An extensive new Palestinian Feminist Collective report traces Israeli sexual violence against Palestinians from the 1948 Nakba to Gaza today, showing it isn’t incidental abuse but a deliberate tool ...
The discovery this week of the sunken arms ship the Altalena, which almost sparked an Israeli civil war just one month after the fledgling state was created in 1948, has become a political battle ...
Ghalia Abu Moteir, whose family fled what is now Israel during the 1948 war that surrounded its creation, shelters from the current war in a tent in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, after being displaced from ...
Bergin and Garvey, 2002. 216 pp. $81.95. How do Israelis learn about the Arab-Israeli conflict? Israeli television and newspapers discuss the here-and-now, but most Israelis learn about the conflict’s ...
Still from Rami Younis and Sarah Ema Friedland's Lyd (2023), which was prohibited from being screened at the al-Saraya Theater in Jaffa (courtesy the artists) Hours before a scheduled screening of a ...
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — Blink and you might miss the few stone walls that are all that’s left of the village that Yusuf Abu Hamam’s family was forced to flee when he was an infant in 1948. The ...
KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip — As a 4-year-old, Ghalia Abu Moteir was driven to live in a tent in Khan Younis after her family fled their home in what’s now Israel, escaping advancing Israeli forces.