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There's a Mass Palestinian Grave at a Popular Israeli Beach, Veterans Confess

State Archive Error Shows Israeli Censorship Guided by Concerns Over National Image

Opinion Opinion |

Jews Were Massacred in '48 Too, So Why Dwell Only on the Nakba? Jews Were Massacred in 1948 Too, So Why Dwell Only on the Nakba?

Ironically, It's the Israeli Right That's Acknowledging the Palestinian Nakba

The Ghosts Haunting Israel's Wars, Past and Present

Palestinian refugees evacuated under U.N. supervision headed, with all their belongings, to Gaza in 1949.

Israel's 'Most Moral Army in the World' Can't Keep Running Away From Its Past

Operation Hiram. Within 30 hours, dozens of villages in the Galilee were conquered.

Classified Docs Reveal Previously Unknown Massacres of Palestinians in '48 Classified Docs Reveal Massacres of Palestinians in '48 – and What Israeli Leaders Knew

An olive tree in the West Bank

Opinion Opinion |

Israel Is Approaching the Next Nakba

A classroom in Kuseife in the south.

Arab Teachers’ in Israel Face Dilemma: Civics by the Book or Talk About the Nakba

Sally Rooney poses for a photograph ahead of the announcement of the winner of the Costa Book Awards in London, 2019.

Sally Rooney Show: The Israel-Palestine Debate Is Now a Conflict of Empty Words The Sally Rooney Show: The Israel-Palestine Debate Is Now a Conflict of Empty Words

Jewish men cross an intersection at the gateway to Jerusalem, just after sunset and the start of Yom Kippur, this month.

If I Were God, I Would Command Israelis to Observe Yom Kippur for 48 Days

Palestinian refugees during Israel's War of Independence.

Israeli School System Takes Small but Significant Step in Discussing the Nakba

Hagar and Ishmael in the desert, Emanuel Krescenc Liška (1852–1903)

On Rosh Hashanah, Jews Everywhere Are Commanded to Mark the First Nakba

Palestinian fighters led by Abd al-Qadir al-Husseini in 1948.

Left-wing Purists Are Evading the Truth About the Nakba

The legendary ice-cream vendor of Tamra. Salam Diab tracked the image down in the United States.

One Man’s Crusade to Capture the Memories of an Arab Israeli Town

Yosef Weitz on the job as director of the land department at the JNF, a scene included in the documentary 'Blue Box.'

Opinion Opinion |

Looking the Nakba Dead in the Eye

Arab prisoners in Ramle, 1948.

The Trauma of the Nakba Is Here to Stay

Remnants of agricultural plots separated by a low stone barrier that's invisible to the naked eye, in Beit Guvrin, in the central part of the country.

The Photos Exposing What Israel Is Trying to Hide

Holocaust survivors after the liberation of Auschwitz in January 1945, left, and Palestinian refugees arriving in Jordan in 1969.

Between the Holocaust and the Nakba, Two Histories – and Maybe a Shared Future

Palestinian refugees leaving a village near Haifa, June 1948.

A Brief History of Nakba Day What Is Nakba Day? A Brief History

David Ben-Gurion looking through documents at his Tel Aviv office, 1959.

Ben-Gurion’s Uncensored Diary Revealed: 'Pester the Refugees to Move Eastward' Ben-Gurion’s Uncensored Diary Revealed: 'Pester and Motivate the Refugees to Move Eastward'

A brother and sister, the only two Jewish children in a new Arab school in Haifa established in October 1948, led by well-known Palestinian educator Hasan Farahat. All studies were in Arabic, with English and Hebrew also taught

Israel: Celebrate, Don't Fear, Your Arabness

The surrender of Ramle in 1948.

Jewish Israelis Should Stop Being Afraid of the Nakba

Three Haganah members escort three Palestinian Arabs expelled from Haifa during the 1948 War of Indpendence.

My People Know Our Past

Boxes of documents in Israel's state archives, 2016

Colonialism in the Israel State Archives

Olive trees uprooted by Israeli soldiers at the West Bank Palestinian village of Deir Balut.

Israel Is Recreating the Nakba, Without Putting Palestinians on Trucks

In this 1948 photo from the UNRWA archive, Palestinian refugees stand outside their tent in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, following what Palestinians call the "Nakba," or “catastrophe”-- their uprooting in the war over Israel's 1948 creation.

Israel's Founding Generation of Looters

A Palestinian refugee cut off from her home by the 1949 Armistice Line (Green Line), which was established after the Arab-Israeli war in 1948.

Opinion Opinion |

Even Ben-Gurion Thought ‘Most Jews Are Thieves’

Haifa, 1948. The pillaging, says Raz, “was tolerated” by the leadership, and first and foremost by Ben-Gurion – despite his condemnations in official forums.

Jews Looted Arab Neighbors' Property en Masse in '48. The Authorities Let Them Jewish Soldiers and Civilians Looted Arab Neighbors' Property en Masse in '48. The Authorities Turned a Blind Eye

A woman walks past a mural of the late Palestinian poet Mahmud Darwish in Jenin, West Bank, September 2, 2008.

The Palestinian National Poet and the Silencing of Women's Voices

Itzhak Sadeh and Yigal Allon in 1948.

Opinion Opinion |

America Is Smashing Statues and Falsehoods. Will Israel Also Confront Its Past? America Is Smashing Statues and Falsehoods. Will Israel Someday Also Confront Its Past?

The former head of the Meretz party, Zehava Galon, in Tel Aviv in 2019.

Fuming Over Comparison Between Rape and 1948, Leftist Leader Does Damage

A man wearing a Virtual Reality device tries Palestine VR, in Ramallah, April 23, 2020.

Palestinians Look to a Digital Future to Connect With Their Past on Nakba Day

Ruba Bilal Asfour in 2016.

Best Israeli Television Actress Winner Protests Awards Ceremony on Nakba Day

Headstones at Tel Aviv's Nahalat Yizhak cemetery, October 27, 2016.

Opinion Opinion |

Why Didn't You Tell Us About the Palestinian Village of Tantura?

Israeli troops guarding captured Egyptians and Palestinians lying on a roadside at Rafah during the Six-Day War, June 1967.

In Classic Occupier Fashion, Israel Has Hit Rock Bottom. And Now It’s Too Late

Oh no, don't you put me in that box: Actress and video artist Raida Adon, February 2020.

'I’m Always Wife of a Hamas Character, My Children Are Killed or I’m Being Raped' An Arab Israeli Artist Finds Home Inside a Suitcase

Poet and playwright Ayman Kamel Agbaria, whose first poems translated into Hebrew came out in early 2020.

The Palestinian Poet Who Refuses to Be the Court Jester of Israeli Literature

France's lower house of parliament, the Assemblee Nationale, in session, October 7, 2019

French Parliament Adopts anti-Semitism Definition That Includes anti-Zionism

Screenshot of video of a member of Students for Justice for Palestine demands that Holocaust survivor Harold Kasimow denounce Israel's 'genocide' of Palestinians. Benedictine College, 24 October 2010

For pro-Palestinian Activists on U.S. Campuses, the Holocaust Is Cancelled

The recently renovated Beit Alami (Alami House), still referred to as “the Arab house” by the kibbutzniks in Zikim, southern Israel, August 2019.

In Makeover Project, Israeli Kibbutz Preserves Its Palestinian 'Roots'

IDF soldiers guarding Palestinians in Ramle, in 1948.

Israel Didn't Aim to Distort History by Concealing Nakba Files, Ex-top Official Says Israel Didn't Aim to Distort History by Concealing Nakba Files, Former Defense Official Says

Candleholders taken from a Palestinian home by a Carmeli Brigade soldier.

Jerusalem Student Creates Online Archive of Looted Palestinian Objects From 1948 Israeli Art Student Creates Online Archive of Looted Palestinian Objects From War of Independence

Cactus plants filled with bullet holes after the Deir Yassin massacre of April 9, 1948.

Israel’s Concealing of Documents on the Nakba Is Totalitarian Benny Morris: Israel’s Concealing of Nakba Documents Is Totalitarian

Education Minister Rafi Peretz at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem.

The Sadism of Flying the Israeli Flag

Palestine refugees leave the Gaza Strip on fishing boats in 1948.

The Nakba Isn’t Going Away

Palestine refugees initially displaced to Gaza board boats to Lebanon or Egypt, in 1949.

How Israel Systematically Hides Evidence of 1948 Expulsion of Arabs Burying the Nakba: How Israel Systematically Hides Evidence of 1948 Expulsion of Arabs

From the documentary 'Mussolini's Sister.'

This Palestinian Woman Made a Film About Her Grandmother, but the Nakba Looms Large

Students attend rally to mark Nakba Day outside Tel Aviv University, May 15, 2019.

In First, Israeli University Bans Political Event, Citing Violation of 'Nakba Law' Israeli University Cancels Event Marking Nakba Day, Citing Violation of Law

Demonstrators wave Palestinian flags as they march during a demonstration commemorating the 71st anniversary of the Nakba in Gaza City, May 14, 2019.

Following Cease-fire, Gaza Protest Organizers Urge Restrained Nakba Day Marches

Palestinian activist Ahed Tamimi (centre right) joins a march calling for justice for Palestinians on Witehall in central London on May 11, 2019.

Ahed Tamimi Leads Thousands in London 'Free Palestine' March

The march on the Palestinian village of Khubbayza in northern Israel, May 9, 2019.

Thousands of Arab Israelis March on Empty Palestinian Village to Commemorate Nakba

File photo: Israeli flags in front of a partial view of the Israeli settlement of Efrat in the West Bank, April 2019.

Independence Day 2019: A Time for Dwindling Hope, a Time for Growing Fears Israel Independence Day 2019: A Time for Dwindling Hope, a Time for Growing Fears

Shmuel Lahis.

‘In Cold Blood’ |

Israeli Who Commanded Massacre of Dozens of Arab Captives in 1948 Dies at 93

The late Sa’id Bisharat, uncle of Haaretz writer Odeh Bisharat

My Late Uncle Was Part of a Generation of Palestinian Giants