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Israeli Court Orders State Archives to Release Secret Files on 1956 Kafr Qasim Massacre IDF commanders ordered troops to murder unarmed Palestinians forcing panicked survivors to flee to Jordan

July 31, 2022 by Richard Silverstein 4 Comments

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Israel and Genocide "Apartheid" has become an accepted term regarding Israel's treatment of the Palestinians. Is "Genocide" next?

January 30, 2022 by Richard Silverstein 19 Comments

Over the past year, human rights groups like B’Tselem and Human Rights Watch published damning reports on Israel’s systematic oppression of the Palestinians. For the first time, these groups called Israel an apartheid state. What was new in this terminology is that they not only called the Occupation apartheid, but Israel itself an apartheid state […]

Tantura and the Israeli “Conspiracy of Silence” An Israeli Nakba massacre in 1948 aroused a conspiracy of silence which destroyed the career of an Israeli graduate student

January 21, 2022 by Richard Silverstein 24 Comments

Before 1948, Tantura was a Palestinian coastal fishing village of 1,500 residents located just north of the Israeli town of Zichron Yaakov. As war threatened and conditions worsened for Palestinian residents, the wealthier fled to Haifa.  About 1,200 remained to tend to their farmland.  Because Tantura was located along the coastal highway connecting Tel Aviv […]

  • Palestinian refugee, 1948 (from "Censored Voices")
  • Nakba: grandaughter and grandfather
  • Neve Shalom, Dove of Peace
  • Jerusalem Hope, Palestine Poster Collection
  • Offering Reconciliation, Parent's Circle exhibition
  • Mohammed Said Kalash bowl, Offering Reconciliation, Parent's Circle
  • Tsilya Aguf, Ukraine 1930s (Centropa)
  • Ketubah, Iran
  • Shushan Machzor (New York Public Library)
  • Mishneh Torah Maimonides
  • Sarajevo Haggadah
  • Sarajevo Haggadah, Mah Nishtanah
  • Bibi Netanyahu (Vanity Fair)
  • Naftali Bennett, Lebanon war criminal: "I've killed many Arabs."
  • The [Sabra] Hulk (Mysh )
  • A Problem of Self Image (Mysh )
  • "Promises," Israeli & Palestinian Boy
  • menachem froman
    Rabbi Menachem Froman z"l (Rina Castelnuovo)
  • Rabbi Menachem Froman z"l & Palestinian Imam
  • Great Day on Eldrige Street, Klezmer musicians
  • Yale Strom, Eldridge Street shul
  • Eldridge Street Shul
  • Besa Albanian-Muslim Righteous Gentile (Norman Gershman)
  • Daniel Barenboim, West-Eastern Diwan Orchestra
  • Hebron Palestinian in IDF gunsight (Breaking the Silence)
  • Archipelago of Palestine
  • Bedouin: I am Invisible
  • East Jerusalem shouk
  • Balian Armenian ceramics, Olive Tree
  • Jerusalem pottery, 1972
  • Balian ceramics, Jerusalem
  • Dancing Gazelles Balian Ceramics
  • Balian Armenian ceramics, Jerusalem (2004)
  • Balian ceramics, East Jerusalem
  • Pincus and the Pig: a Klezmer Tale
  • Im Tirzu: a Fascist Movement
  • Marcy Silverstein (grandfather) and semi-pro baseball team circa 1920
  • Pete Seeger & Bruce Springsteen, 'This Land is Your Land' (Justin Sullivan/ Getty)
  • Leonard Baskin: Ruth and Naomi, "Five Scrolls"
  • Ben Shahn, "You Have Not Converted a Man"
  • Study for Goyescas, Ben Shahn
  • Allegory, Ben Shahn
  • The Phoenix, Ben Shahn
  • Ben Shahn Ecclesiastes
  • Ben Shahn Warsaw 1943, Martyrology, "These I Remember"
  • Ben Shahn's Haggadah
  • Black Lives Matter, Seattle
  • Shavuot papercut, Poland
  • Hamsa with Star of David
  • Quran, Turkey, 19th century
  • Harriet Tubman, I Go To Prepare A Place For You (detail), Bisa Butler, 2021
  • Arboretum 2015
  • Arboretum fall color
  • Fall color, Washinton Park Arboretum, Seattle
  • Rhododenrons, Washington Park Arboretum
  • Gee's Bend African-American quilt
  • Gee's Bend quilt, Ana Mae Young
  • Gee's Bend quilt
  • Gee's Bend quilt, stripes
  • Gee's Bend box quilt
  • Gee's Bend quilt, stars
  • Gee's Bend quilt
  • Gee's Bend quilt, flags
  • Armenia-Palestine: We will mourn with you. (WATAN)
  • Washington Arboretum, frozen pond fall leaves
  • New Jewish Agenda, Celebrate People's History
  • Mt. Ranier
  • Mosque celing, Iran
  • tomb of esther and mordechai
    Tomb of Esther and Mordechai, Hamadan (Iran)
  • Mosque ceiling, Qom Iran
  • Palestinian embroidery, Bethlehem
  • Palestine embroidered
  • Tatreez Institute (Wafa Ghnaim)
  • Palestinian embroidery
  • Palestinian Floral Thobe (WATAN)
  • Palestinian child's quilt
  • Tatreez Institute (Wafa Ghnaim)
  • Palestinian dolls YWCA Jerusalem
  • Fabric of Our Lives, YWCA of Palestine
  • Palestinian thobe
  • Palestinian embroidery, Bethlehem
  • Chagall window, Hadassha Hospital chapel
  • Mosque ceiling, Iran
  • Shah-e-Cheragh Shrine, Shiraz
  • Golestan palace, Iran
  • Golestan Palace, Tehran (photo: M. Ganji)
  • Timche-Ye Amin Od-Dowleh, Kashan (photo: M. Ganji)
  • Ramallah nursing students take a lunch break. (Tanya Habjouqa)
  • The Gaza Parkour & Free Running team practice in a Khan Younis cemetery, Gaza. (Tanya Habjouqa)
  • Toy delivery van on Gaza Beach Highway. (Tanya Habjouqa)
  • Mt. Rainer from Sunrise Trail

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