Linda Dittmar witnessed abuses of Palestinians during the Nakba as a girl in Israel. Now in her 80s, living in America she seeks to retrace the ways that Israelis suppressed the Nakba and replaced Palestinian life with a Zionist narrative.

The same settler-colonial project that carried out the Deir Yassin massacre in 1948 is responsible for the killing of 16-year old Qusay Hamamra last week.

Rabbi Seymour Rosenbloom does the right thing for J Street at Passover by admitting that the Tantura massacre of Palestinians took place in the early days of Israel’s existence. But he cannot acknowledge that Israel was then and is now an apartheid state that continues to push Palestinians out of their homes. The rabbi’s view that “Israel’s challenge is to reclaim the ‘child we prayed for'” is simply a delusion, especially in light of rightwing governments that are all committed to maintaining military occupation.

Exposing the true face of the occupation is vital in defeating it, and we might be much closer to achieving that than we think.

Who bears responsibility for the Al Tantura massacre, and how should they be held accountable?

“We don’t need their acknowledgment,” says Salah Abu Salah, a survivor of the Al-Tantura massacre. “The land will testify one day and tell what happened.”

A new documentary featuring at Sundance this weekend demolishes the official denial of the Tantura massacre, when more than 200 Palestinians in a seaside community were gunned down by a Zionist militia days after the establishment of Israel in 1948. Members of the militia were successful in 2000 in quashing a crusading academic’s documentation of the atrocities.

Stephen Shenfield writes Palestinian refugee from Syria and filmmaker Hala Gabriel is nearly finished with her documentary “On the Road to Tantura.” But she needs one last fundraising push: “The basic work on the documentary has now been done. Hala Gabriel and her producer Talal Jabari have a solid 70-minute “rough cut” of the film. However, there remains significant work to be done in order to complete the project in the near future at the same high standard of professionalism as they have maintained since the start of the project. They aim to release the film by the 70th anniversary of the Nakba and in time for the 2018 film festival circuit.

One might expect that only historians would care to revisit the 1948 war that created Israel. And yet the debate about what constitutes truth and myth from that period still provokes raw emotions. That is why the unearthing of an Israeli soldier’s letter from 1948 detailing what was probably the war’s worst massacre – one long buried by Israel – is of more than historical significance.

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.