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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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Manzanar to Palestine: Legacy of Internment and Ethnic-Cleansing

July 25, 2022 by Richard Silverstein 13 Comments

Last night, I watched a fascinating PBS documentary, Manzanar, Diverted: When Water Becomes Dust.  We all know, or think we know about Manzanar.  It was the “flagship” incarceration camp for interned Japanese Americans during World War II (there were others in Arizona and Idaho).  The World War II iInternment decreed by Pres. Rooselvelt, was the […]

Zionism and the Exploitation of Jewish Catastrophe

October 20, 2019 by Richard Silverstein 8 Comments

 Though I have always had sympathy for the general goals of creating a Jewish homeland for victims of persecution and genocide, I am critical of the ways in which Zionism pursued that objective.  From the very beginning, even in Herzl’s writings, there are the seeds of ethnic-nationalism, racism and even anti-Semitism, which permeate Israel […]

When Israel’s Early Leaders Pondered the “Arab Question,” Ben Gurion Called Them “Donkeys”

January 5, 2018 by Richard Silverstein 34 Comments

NOTE: I use the term “Palestinian” in various forms in this piece.  But for the sake of variety (and to avoid repetition), or in order to portray the attitudes of some of the historical subjects, I use the term “Arab” at times, meaning it to be interchangeable with “Palestinian.”  This usage is not meant to […]

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