When Teddy Katz dared to uncover the Tantura Massacre of May 1948 in his master’s thesis at Haifa University in 1998, Israeli veterans sued him for his findings and the university acted to suppress the thesis. Still the case lingers. It occurred after the establishment of Israel and speaks to the fundamental crimes associated with the state’s creation.
In discussing the Israeli policy of withholding the bodies of Palestinians shot while allegedly undertaking terrorist actions, several Israeli leaders have stated recently that Palestinians sanctify death and therefore do not grieve their dead as Israeli do. But they are projecting their own reverence for violence on to the victims.
Anti-semitism confirmed the belief that Jews are special, for many Zionists and secular Jews. We are not special. Any human can be brought to the abyss of nationalist absolutism and totalitarianism. Any religion can be applied in a way that accentuates the exclusivist ideological stream. If we let that idea haunt us to the degree of uncontrolled survivalist frenzy, we will be undermining our own future and fulfilling the next doom prophecy.
“Racist, nauseating and reminiscent of dark historical periods” — a question on an engineering exam at Ben Gurion U in Israel likens non-Jewish African refugees to rats
In 1948, the Palestinian mukhtar, or leader of Dawaymeh village, gave a sworn statement to the UN, never fully publicized before, stating that 100s had been killed by Israeli forces there in October 1948, long after the creation of the Jewish state
As the reality of Israel’s crimes become impossible to hide, our society is redoubling its efforts to defend them as “self defense”. Who on earth would want to save this society if this is what “survival” looks like?
In October 1948, Israeli forces massacred scores of Palestinians in the village of al-Dawayima near Hebron. The case was covered up by the Israeli military, an investigation died out. 68 years later the story is finally emerging in a confessional statement suppressed at the time in which a soldier sought to relieve the weight on his soul.
Leftwing Israeli blogger Yossi Gurvitz and an alternative news website say they received a decree from the Israeli Defense Forces instructing them to pass on texts they plan to publish on Facebook concerning the security establishment for early monitoring and censorship
Seeking to define Palestinians as Arabs is another way that Zionist Israelis have sought to deny Palestinian nationality on the part of non-Jewish citizens, to secure the state’s definition as the “Jewish State,” and to finish the Nakba by denying the existence of Palestine, outside of a couple of Bantustans.
Yonatan Shay, an official of the American Jewish Committee, seeks to paint Syrian refugees in Berlin as anti-Semitic, and as putting Jews in Europe in danger, with the obvious agenda of riding the nationalist xenophobic wave.