The Nakba, Then and Now
Author: Raja Shehadeh 30/09/2012
That an Israeli group like Zochrot should organize a trip to a city where some of the Nakba’s worst atrocities occurred is an important and necessary attempt to bridge this nagging gap in perceptions...
A Different Israeli Literature
Author: Yonatan Mendel 31/08/2012
The two Hebrew books discussed in this article, issued by major, well-known Israeli publishing houses (HaKibbutz HaMeuchad and Am Oved), are also examples of the kind of work that frightens the Israeli Minister of Culture. They were written in the past two years by authors in their thirties, and though they’re different from one another – in ...
Police besiege, arrest activists planning to commemorate Nakba
Author: Haggai Matar 31/03/2012
Some 15 activists from the organization Zochrot were besieged by police on Wednesday night in the NGO’s offices, in order to prevent them from quietly commemorating the Palestinian Nakba on Israeli Independence Day. Three were arrested for reading aloud names of destroyed villages....
Police arrest 3 at 'Nakba' event 'stand-off' in TA
Author: BEN HARTMAN 31/03/2012
"Zochrot" organization is prevented from laying posters in Rabin Square showing names of pre-1948 Palestinian villages....
Deir Yassin: The peace that never was
31/03/2012
Two days ago, we visited Deir Yassin, or to be more specific, what remains of Deir Yassin, with Zochrot, an Israeli organization dedicated to educating the Israeli public about the nakba. The tour was organized in commemoration of the Deir Yassin massacre....
A Roundabout Named Dajani
Author: RAJA SHEHADEH 31/01/2012
JAFFA, ISRAEL — Moments of hope are rare in this miserable, interminable Israeli-Palestinian conflict, so archaic in its colonial character, so postmodern in the methods Israel uses to oppress the Palestinians living under its rule....
Breaking the Silence – Palmach Version
Author: Yishai Friedman 31/12/2011
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World bodies must act now to save Lifta
Author: Antoine Raffoul 30/11/2011
Earlier this year, the group 1948 Lest We Forget filed an application to the World Monuments Fund (WMF) to include the Palestinian village of Lifta in its 2012 World Monuments Watch List....
Exhibition explores implementing right of return
Author: Jillian Kestler-D'Amours 30/09/2011
TEL AVIV (IPS) - In a new project that has tackled one of the most divisive issues plaguing the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, a diverse group of academics, architects, urban planners and Palestinian and Israeli human rights groups are examining how the right of return of Palestinian refugees can be implemented on the ground.TEL AVIV (IPS) - In a ne...
Why not return?
Author: Eitan Bronstein 31/08/2011
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Wounds of dispossession reopened
Author: HARRIET SHERWOOD 31/05/2011
In the golden light of a spring evening, Yacoub Odeh climbs through knee-high grass to the ruin that was his childhood home....
Education Ministry hunting for Arab teachers absent on Land Day
Author: Jack Khoury 31/03/2011
Principals of Arab schools received a letter from the Education Ministry on Land Day, held on March 30, asking them to immediately "report the names of teachers who were present in the schools and of those who were absent."This year marked the 35th anniversary of the first Land Day in 1976, when 6 Israeli Arabs were killed in clashes with se...