Israel criminalizes commemoration of the Nakba
Author: Jillian Kestler-D'Amours 28/02/2011
“Law will not influence the way we commemorate the Nakba,” Haneen Zoabi, Palestinian member of the Knesset, told The Electronic Intifada. “On the contrary, we must prove to our people and to the state that we will not be afraid from this law and that this will not succeed in oppressing our feeling or our identity. We will commemorate the ...
Israel Charny, director of the Institute on the Holocaust and Genocide in Jerusalem and former editor of the Encyclopedia of Genocide, acknowledges that Zionists committed genocidal massacres and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians
Author: Gal Beckerman 31/01/2011
The question is provocative, and the answer for most people is an unequivocal no. But a debate over this idea has formed the crux of a heated argument among the most eminent genocide scholars in the world, and led recently to the censure of an Israeli professor by the field’s leading academic association....
The forest through the trees: What the Carmel fire reminds us about Israel’s history
Author: Max Blumenthal 30/11/2010
Most of the original inhabitants of Ein Hod, which was called Ayn Hawd prior to the expulsions of '48, and was continuously populated since the 12th century, were expelled to refugee camps in Jordan and Jenin in the West Bank. But a small and exceptionally resilient band of residents fled to the hills, set up a makeshift camp and watched as Jew...
A 'Hidden History' in the Holy Land
Author: Ben White 31/07/2010
As Bronstein explained to me, “I had the idea to post simple signs indicating the Palestinian history of the park. My friends told me it was a great idea—but that it wasn’t just a few villages, but hundreds,” a realization that helped give birth to Zochrot.The Israeli group Zochrot seeks to introduce fellow Israelis to the people who lived ...
An Israeli on Nakba Day: ‘Our humanity is bound up with your right to return'
Author: Eitan Bronstein 30/04/2010
Please, you and your children, don’t ever give up your right to return. Not (only) for yourselves but for me also. Do you understand? If you give up this right all chance for a just life in this land will be lost and I will be sentenced to the shameful life of an eternal occupier, armed from the soles of my feet to the depths of my soul and...
Who will give up the right of return?
Author: Eitan Bronstein 30/04/2010
Miska, Qula, Bir’im, Saffuriyya, al-Ghabisiyya, ‘Ayn Ghazal, Yaffa, Haifa, Tabaria, Ijzim, Dair Yassin, Safsaf, Ijlil, Qaqun, ‘Innaba, al-Lajjun, al-Ghubayyat, and more – Israel destroyed an entire life, an entire page of civilization, in destroying these places. For me these places have a real face, one that I met person...
Israeli Jews and the one-state solution
Author: Ali Abunimah, Electronic Intifadah 28/02/2010
Anyone who rejects the two-state solution, won't bring a one-state solution. They will instead bring one war, not one state. A bloody war with no end. -- Israeli President Shimon Peres, 7 November 2009....
Response to the Nakba law
Author: Eitan Bronstein 31/01/2010
The Nakba law's motivation: to frighten everyone who wishes to commemorate the human and political tragedy that occurred in 1948, in which the Zionists expelled most of the Palestinian inhabitants of the country and the state of Israel destroyed most of the localities in which they lived....
Nakba: Not a dirty word
Author: Amaya Galili 31/03/2009
People around me are celebrating, but I'm not....
Fighting against forgetting
Author: Yishai Friedman 31/10/2008
They also argue that kibbutzniks and residents of Tel Aviv are the most dangerous settlers. Is this a marginal organization of lunatics, or a threat to the Jewish state? People on the right would have us be wary of those they call "traitors." They also argue that kibbutzniks and residents of Tel Aviv are the most dange...
If there already is a sign in the park - there will also be a mention of the destroyed Palestinian village
Author: Yoav Stern 31/01/2008
Following numerous requests on behalf of Zochrot organization, the Jewish National Found (KKL-JNF) obligated itself to change the wording on all signs detailing history of an area, in a way that will mention the names of destroyed Palestinian villages.Following numerous requests on behalf of Zochrot organization, the Jewish National F...
Bridging Memory – Report on 2007
2007
In following with our request, the following activities were implemented by Zochrot as part of the Bridging Memory project, in 2007.
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