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Why Nixon Helped Israel in 1973: A Promise To His Mother

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Golda Meir and Her Search for Peace

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November 26, 2024 No Comments

What Arab News’ ‘Ramadan Before the Nakba’ Piece Omits

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April 4, 2022 No Comments

Know Your History: Arabs Boycott Jewish Electricity, 1923

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Epic Anti-Israel Propaganda Own Goal(s)

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February 23, 2022 No Comments

Did Golda Meir Really Say “There Are No Palestinians”?

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November 21, 2021 No Comments

Know Your History: Who Really Created the Middle East Refugee Problems?

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November 18, 2021 No Comments

Know Your History: Jews Making the Lands of Palestine Thrive (June 1918)

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August 17, 2021 No Comments

Another Huge Mohamed Hadid “Own Goal”

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Know Your History: Bethlehem Cigarette Factory Gives Cigarettes Zionist Names (1936)

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June 1, 2021 No Comments

By the Rivers of Babylon

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April 11, 2021 3 Comments

Philistines and Hitech

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April 7, 2021 2 Comments

Making the Desert Bloom

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April 2, 2021 4 Comments

Khalil Totah & Hitler’s Mufti

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March 24, 2021 No Comments

Know Your History: Eleanor Roosevelt on Solving the Palestinian Arab Refugee Issue

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March 19, 2021 4 Comments

Know Your History: Eleanor Roosevelt on the Palestinian Arab-Israeli Conflict

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March 18, 2021 3 Comments

Know Your History: The Flag of Palestine

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Know Your History: Jews Helping Needy Arab Farmers in Palestine, 1930

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February 10, 2021 1 Comment

Know Your History: Treatment of Jews at the Western Wall, 1928

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February 9, 2021 No Comments

Know Your History: Arabs Welcoming Jewish Immigration to Palestine (1921)

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January 18, 2021 4 Comments

Know Your History: How Infamous “Zionism is Racism” UN Resolution Passed

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January 17, 2021 4 Comments

Know Your History: Even the Term “Free Palestine” Was Co-opted From the Jews (Part Two)

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September 11, 2020 No Comments

Know Your History: The Ill-Fated Transjordan Land Lease Offer to Jews (NY Times January 1933)

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May 27, 2020 No Comments

Know Your History: Jews Looking Out for Their Arab Neighbors Following Earthquake of 1927 (NY Times July 23, 1927)

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May 26, 2020 No Comments

Know Your History: Jewish Acquisition of Agricultural Land in Palestine (JTA, Dec 9, 1929)

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May 14, 2020 5 Comments

Draining the Swamps

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May 13, 2020 6 Comments

“Human Rights” Organization Claims The British Occupied the State of Palestine

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March 11, 2020 No Comments

Know Your History: The Jews Coming Home (Life July 5, 1937)

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Know Your History: Ramla as the Last Arab City Established by the Arabs

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December 10, 2019 1 Comment

Know Your History: What Gamal Abdel Nasser Said About The “West Bank” and Gaza

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December 6, 2019 No Comments

David Ben-Gurion on Hebron’s Religious Significance to the Jewish People

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November 24, 2019 No Comments

Know Your History: Plenty of Palestinian Arabs Were Happy Israel Won the Six Day War

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November 22, 2019 No Comments

Know Your History: Jerusalem Sanitation (NY Times Nov 10, 1919)

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September 15, 2019 No Comments

WATCH: The Yom Kippur War Explained

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June 27, 2019 No Comments

WATCH: Weird Ways Israel Won its War of Independence

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June 24, 2019 No Comments

Know Your History: The Desolation of Palestine (NY Times May 3, 1880)

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April 10, 2019 No Comments

Abbas Hamideh, Pal of Rashida Tlaib, Proves Himself to Be Huge Dumbass

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March 31, 2019 3 Comments

Know Your History: Palestinian Art (NY Times Dec 11, 1929)

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February 27, 2019 No Comments

Know Your History: The Battle of Gaza (NY Times April 15, 1917)

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January 18, 2019 No Comments

The New York Times Has Truly Hit a Wall

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December 18, 2017 No Comments

UNSCOP: Solving the Problem of Palestine

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August 27, 2017 2 Comments

Know Your History: The ‘Palestinian Refugees’ (NY Times May 19, 1957)

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August 24, 2017 2 Comments

Huge Own Goal As Israel Haters Release Video of “Palestine” Maps

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August 15, 2017 23 Comments

Know Your History: ‘Same Arab Race’ in Syria and Palestine (NY Times Sept 1, 1921)

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August 4, 2017 3 Comments

Know Your History: Restriction on Access to Jerusalem Holy Site & Subsequent Strike (NY Times June/July 1930)

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July 27, 2017 2 Comments

The Narrative of Palestine

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July 24, 2017 25 Comments

Know Your History: Jews Transforming The Land (NY Times, 1890-1912)

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July 7, 2017 4 Comments

WATCH: Philip Noel-Baker: I Was Converted to Zionism By Emir Faisal And Lawrence of Arabia

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June 30, 2017 3 Comments

WATCH: Arab-Palestinian Leader Anwar Nusseibeh: Palestine Was Really Just Part of Syria

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June 29, 2017 2 Comments

WATCH: Palestine 1900-1918

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June 27, 2017 3 Comments

Know Your History: The Jewish And Arab Reactions To The Partition Plan (British Pathé)

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May 25, 2017 2 Comments

Know Your History: Arabs Of Palestine – Thoughts On Living With Jews (NY Times March 19, 1947)

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May 5, 2017 2 Comments

Know Your History: Muslim Reason For 1929 Riots (NY Times Dec 4, 1929)

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October 25, 2016 4 Comments

Know Your History: The Reunification of Jerusalem and The Jewish Connection

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October 14, 2016 1 Comment

Know Your History: Farid Kassab, First Arab To Use Term “Palestinian”, Praised Zionists

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October 13, 2016 2 Comments

WATCH: When Making Aliyah Was Not Easy

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September 16, 2016 No Comments

Newsweek Middle East Scores Spectacular Anti-Israel Own Goals

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September 10, 2016 5 Comments

Palestinia Phone 56Y

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September 9, 2016 6 Comments

On This Day In 1973: Some Refreshing Candor From An Arabist

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August 29, 2016 No Comments

Know Your History: Palestinian Arab Identity And Jewish Presence In Palestine (The Sentinel March 21, 1919)

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August 18, 2016 1 Comment

Know Your History: Judea (NY Times Nov 23, 1917)

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June 22, 2016 1 Comment

Know Your History: The Occupation Of Jerusalem (NY Times Dec 20, 1917)

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June 21, 2016 3 Comments

What’s In A Name?

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June 17, 2016 2 Comments

Reader Post: Retroactive History

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June 8, 2016 1 Comment

Know Your History: The Fleeing Arabs (Time Magazine May 3rd, 1948)

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May 26, 2016 3 Comments

Know Your History: The Palestinian Arab Refugees (NY Times Dec 11, 1966)

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May 23, 2016 5 Comments

The One Thing They Couldn’t Take

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May 2, 2016 3 Comments

Reader Post: Palestine – The Last 2000 Years

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February 27, 2016 2 Comments

Know Your History: Mark Sykes, Post Balfour Declaration (NY Times Dec 12, 1917)

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February 15, 2016 No Comments

Reader Post: Education In The Knesset

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February 4, 2016 2 Comments

Mugged By History In London

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September 17, 2015 10 Comments

This Day In History: Hebron Massacre (Of Jews)

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August 24, 2015 4 Comments

Another History Lesson

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April 1, 2015 5 Comments

The History Lesson

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February 19, 2015 6 Comments

History Channel Knows How To Have A Lot Fewer Problems And Jews

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February 1, 2015 32 Comments

The Difference Between Fact And Opinion

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December 28, 2014 3 Comments

Reader Post: How To Debate Anti-Zionists – From a Progressive/Left Wing Perspective

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August 11, 2014 20 Comments

Reader Post: Jews and Race – The “Skin Color” Argument in Anti-Israel Discourse

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June 14, 2014 20 Comments

Those Darn Jews In Jerusalem

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April 30, 2013 4 Comments

And They’re Still Trying To Tell Us What To Do

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May 17, 2012 5 Comments

Why Is Israel In The News So Much?

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September 8, 2011 28 Comments

Imperial History of the Middle East

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March 17, 2010 23 Comments

Interview With My Father: Part Seventeen

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November 7, 2008 1 Comment

Interview With My Father: Part Sixteen

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Interview With My Father: Part Fifteen

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Interview With My Father: Part Fourteen

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Seven Years On

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September 11, 2008 5 Comments

Interview With My Father: Part Thirteen

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Interview With My Father: Part Twelve

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Interview With My Father: Part Eleven

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August 22, 2008 1 Comment

Interview With My Father: Part Ten

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Interview With My Father: Part Nine

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August 8, 2008 4 Comments

Interview With My Father: Part Eight

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August 1, 2008 3 Comments

Interview With My Father: Part Seven

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Interview With My Father: Part Six

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From the “It’s a Small World” Department

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Interview With My Father: Part Five

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Interview With My Father: Part Four

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Interview With My Father: Part Three

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July 19, 2008 1 Comment

Interview With My Father: Part Two

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July 18, 2008 2 Comments

Interview With My Father: Part One

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July 17, 2008 20 Comments

Palestinian Arab heroine Dalal Mughrabi

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July 2, 2008 3 Comments

Today’s Must Read Article

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May 19, 2008 6 Comments

Psychological Egoism in the Arab/Israeli Conflict

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April 11, 2008 1 Comment