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History Series

A series where I use history to debunk common misconceptions about the Middle East conflict.

Gordon Levett

The British Gentile Who Became an Israeli Air Force Legend

May 29, 2026 No Comments

StarboatArriveKishonPort

How Israel Stole Back Its Navy: The Incredible Cherbourg Affair

May 15, 2026 No Comments

Ferede_Aklum

Ferede Aklum: The Ethiopian Jewish Hero Who Led Ethiopian Jewish Exodus

April 29, 2026 No Comments

Dan_Shomron cropped

Dan Shomron: The Quiet Military Genius Behind Operation Entebbe

April 14, 2026 No Comments

Rafael_Eitan,_Chief_of_General_Staff cropped

How Rafael Eitan Helped Transform IDF After Yom Kippur War

March 30, 2026 No Comments

givat hakibbutzim

The Kibbutz Hill Project: Israel’s Most Ingenious Secret Factory

March 17, 2026 No Comments

Avraham_Yoffe1960

Avraham Yoffe: The Zionist Zorba

March 5, 2026 No Comments

Yitzhak Hofi

Yitzhak Hofi: The Man Behind Mossad’s Boldest Missions

February 22, 2026 No Comments

Berl_Katznelson_1934

Berl Katznelson: Peace Yes. Partition No. Self-Hatred Never.

February 15, 2026 No Comments

yosef burg

Yosef Burg: The Religious Zionist Who Bridged Israel’s Divides

February 9, 2026 No Comments

Sir Patrick Geddes

Patrick Geddes: The Biologist Who Planned Tel Aviv

February 2, 2026 No Comments

hadassah lempel

Hadassah Lempel: The Last Voice of Latrun

January 26, 2026 No Comments

Zion mule corps

Zion Mule Corps: The First Modern Jewish Fighting Unit

January 7, 2026 No Comments

Shmuel mohilever

Rabbi Shmuel Mohilever: A Pioneering Voice of Early Religious Zionism

December 30, 2025 No Comments

Yitzchak_Yaacov_Reines

Rabbi Yitzchak Reines: When Torah Met Zionism

December 15, 2025 No Comments

leopold-greenberg-brummie

L.J Greenberg: The Zionist Who Helped Shape the Balfour Declaration

December 7, 2025 No Comments

moses hess

Moses Hess: From German Socialism to Pioneer of Zionist Thought

December 1, 2025 No Comments

olga hankin

Olga Hankin, Zionist Heroine of the First Aliyah

November 27, 2025 No Comments

a.d.-gordon

A.D. Gordon and the Jewish Renewal

November 12, 2025 No Comments

Rabbi Yehuda Solomon Alkalai

Before Herzl: The Sephardic Rabbi Who Dreamed of a Jewish Homeland

November 6, 2025 No Comments

Orde wingate

Orde Wingate: The British Hero Behind Israel’s Army

November 3, 2025 No Comments

Ben_Hecht

Ben Hecht: The Hollywood Screenwriter Who Fought for a Jewish State

October 19, 2025 No Comments

Sara-Aaronson

Sarah Aaronsohn: The NILI Spy Who Fought the Ottomans

September 25, 2025 No Comments

Rachel_Bluwstein

Rachel Bluwstein: The Poet on the 20 Shekel Note

September 21, 2025 No Comments

Joseph_Trumpeldor

Joseph Trumpeldor and the Spirit of Jewish Heroism

August 26, 2025 No Comments

Marcel_Janco_(Portrait)

Marcel Janco: Dada Artist Who Shaped Israeli Modernism

August 21, 2025 No Comments

Ludmilla Berkwic

Ludmilla Berkwic: The Nazi-Era Pianist Who Escaped to Rockland

August 10, 2025 No Comments

Flory_Jagoda_2002

Farewell Beloved: The Sephardic Holocaust Story in Song

August 5, 2025 No Comments

Francis_Lyon_Cohen_1920

Francis Lyon Cohen: Defending Jewish Loyalty in Uniform and Song

July 25, 2025 No Comments

german american bund

When Nazis Rallied in NYC: A Warning From 1939 America

July 10, 2025 No Comments

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

July 4, 2025 No Comments

bernstein

An Army in Harmony

June 29, 2025 No Comments

golomb

The Gate to Zion

January 2, 2025 No Comments

eddie jacobson harry truman

The Remarkable Story Behind Harry Truman’s Decision To Recognize Israel

December 18, 2024 No Comments

evian conference

Scapegoats Once Again

December 9, 2024 No Comments

Rudolph_G_Sonneborn

Sonneborn and the Kid From Yonkers

December 5, 2024 No Comments

golda meir

Golda Meir and Her Search for Peace

November 26, 2024 No Comments

passport palestine

Anti-Israel Propaganda “Own Goal” of the Day

September 16, 2024 No Comments

isser harel

“I Will Try” Said Isser Harel

September 10, 2024 No Comments

Victor Grayevsky

Victor Grayevsky and The Speech That Stunned a Nation

September 2, 2024 No Comments

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Zionist Leader Jabotinsky: No Reason Why Two Nations Can’t Live Together in Peace in One Country

June 14, 2024 No Comments

Louis D. Brandeis

Louis D. Brandeis, Zionist

June 7, 2024 No Comments

menachem begin

That Time Menachem Begin Ripped the West German Chancellor

June 7, 2022 No Comments

um_ahmad_aqel

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

April 4, 2022 No Comments

Rutenberg electric

Know Your History: Arabs Boycott Jewish Electricity, 1923

March 18, 2022 No Comments

jerusalem shop video

Epic Anti-Israel Propaganda Own Goal(s)

February 23, 2022 No Comments

golda meir

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

November 21, 2021 No Comments

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

November 18, 2021 No Comments

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

August 17, 2021 No Comments

Mohamed Hadid

Another Huge Mohamed Hadid “Own Goal”

August 2, 2021 No Comments

Arabian cigarettes

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

June 1, 2021 No Comments

Avraham Yoffe

Avraham Yoffe: On Deers and War

May 6, 2021 2 Comments

Zev Vilnai

Zev Vilnay: Walking the Land

April 26, 2021 2 Comments

Pinhas_Rutenberg_1941-1923

Pinhas Rutenberg: Let There Be Light

April 19, 2021 4 Comments

Dov Frohman

Dov Frohman: The Power of a Moment

April 18, 2021 2 Comments

Rami Levy

Rami Levy: No Ordinary Guy

April 16, 2021 2 Comments

Eli Ben-Zaken

Eli Ben-Zaken: A Taste of Chutzpah

April 15, 2021 No Comments

Ben-Zion Israeli

By the Rivers of Babylon

April 11, 2021 3 Comments

Philistines

Philistines and Hitech

April 7, 2021 2 Comments

bronislaw huberman

Playing For Life

April 6, 2021 4 Comments

Simcha Blass

Making the Desert Bloom

April 2, 2021 4 Comments

Rudolphina Menzel

Pooches and Pariahs

March 24, 2021 1 Comment

Khalil Totah

Khalil Totah & Hitler’s Mufti

March 24, 2021 No Comments

Eleanor_Roosevelt

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

March 19, 2021 4 Comments

Eleanor_Roosevelt

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

March 18, 2021 3 Comments

Know Your History: The Flag of Palestine

March 11, 2021 No Comments

ny times article

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

February 10, 2021 1 Comment

ny times article

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

February 9, 2021 No Comments

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

January 18, 2021 4 Comments

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

January 17, 2021 4 Comments

Know Your History: Booming Bethlehem Businesses Because of the Jooooos (NY Times Dec 23, 1970)

December 25, 2020 5 Comments

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

September 11, 2020 No Comments

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

May 27, 2020 No Comments

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

May 26, 2020 No Comments

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

May 14, 2020 5 Comments

Draining the Swamps

May 13, 2020 6 Comments

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

December 23, 2019 No Comments

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

December 10, 2019 1 Comment

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

December 6, 2019 No Comments

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

November 24, 2019 No Comments

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

November 22, 2019 No Comments

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

September 15, 2019 No Comments

Know Your History: There’s Something About Lifta

September 12, 2019 2 Comments

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

July 10, 2019 3 Comments

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

April 10, 2019 No Comments

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

February 27, 2019 No Comments

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

January 18, 2019 No Comments

That Time a PLO Researcher Inadvertently Screwed Up

August 23, 2018 No Comments

The New York Times Has Truly Hit a Wall

December 18, 2017 No Comments

PA Historian Admits No ‘Palestinian People’ in 1917 (Updated With Video)

November 4, 2017 1 Comment

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

August 24, 2017 2 Comments

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

August 15, 2017 23 Comments

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

August 4, 2017 3 Comments

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

July 27, 2017 2 Comments

Know Your History: The Decaying Shrines of Jerusalem (NY Times Aug 21, 1955)

July 23, 2017 1 Comment

Know Your History: Muslim Snipers From Temple Mount (NY Times Oct 20, 1938)

July 21, 2017 4 Comments

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

July 7, 2017 4 Comments

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

June 30, 2017 3 Comments

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

June 29, 2017 2 Comments

WATCH: Pillar Of Fire – The Jew Returns, The Arab Awakens (1896-1920)

June 28, 2017 8 Comments

WATCH: Palestine 1900-1918

June 27, 2017 3 Comments

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

May 25, 2017 2 Comments

Know Your History: Jerusalem, Right After The Six Day War (NY Times July 30, 1967)

May 23, 2017 2 Comments

Know Your History: Ramallah – Three Years After The Six Day War (NY Times May 17, 1970)

May 15, 2017 2 Comments

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

May 5, 2017 2 Comments

Know Your History: The Jewish And Arab Populations In The Holy Land (NY Times May 16, 1948)

May 4, 2017 1 Comment

Know Your History: Past UNESCO Shenanigans

May 3, 2017 3 Comments

Know Your History: Jerusalem In 1830 (Travels in Palestine and Syria, George Robinson)

April 21, 2017 2 Comments

Know Your History: Israeli Arab Rustum Bastuni Advocates For Israel To Hold On To Judea And Samaria, 1968

April 16, 2017 2 Comments

Know Your History: Nazi-Arab Collaboration In Palestine, 1930s

February 21, 2017 8 Comments

Know Your History: Jewish Revival Of ‘Palestine’ (National Geographic, Dec 1938)

December 22, 2016 2 Comments

Know Your History: The Meaning Of UN Resolution 242 (NY Times July 23, 1970)

December 19, 2016 3 Comments

Know Your History: Eyewitness To The Six Day War (National Geographic, Dec 1967)

December 16, 2016 3 Comments

Know Your History: James Bryce’s Impressions Of Palestine (National Geographic, Mar 1915)

December 15, 2016 2 Comments

Know Your History: Ronald Reagan’s US Policy for Peace in the Middle East, 1982

November 7, 2016 6 Comments

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

October 25, 2016 4 Comments

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

October 14, 2016 1 Comment

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

October 13, 2016 2 Comments

Know Your History: Palestinians Return Home

September 4, 2016 3 Comments

Know Your History: The 1929 Hebron Massacre

August 24, 2016 3 Comments

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

August 18, 2016 1 Comment

Know Your History: Black Panther Eldridge Cleaver – From Israel-Hater To Zionist

August 12, 2016 4 Comments

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

June 22, 2016 1 Comment

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

June 21, 2016 3 Comments

Know Your History: The Six Day War (Time Magazine June 16, 1967)

May 27, 2016 27 Comments

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

May 26, 2016 3 Comments

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

May 23, 2016 5 Comments

Know Your History: Those Palestine Mandate Coins 1927-1948

May 20, 2016 9 Comments

Know Your History: James Finn’s Observations In The Holy Land 1846-1856

March 15, 2016 3 Comments

Know Your History: The Jewish And Arab Reactions To The Partition Plan (NY Times Nov-Dec 1947)

March 9, 2016 2 Comments

Know Your History: The German Nazi Templers Of Palestine

March 4, 2016 1 Comment

Know Your History: A Map Of Palestine, 1855

March 1, 2016 3 Comments

Know Your History: Sabena Hijacking Rescue Operation (NY Times May 14, 1972)

February 27, 2016 1 Comment

Know Your History: The ‘Palestinian Refugees’ As Pawns (NY Times April 20, 1972)

February 26, 2016 1 Comment

Know Your History: King Hussein’s Plan & The Reaction Of “West Bank” Arabs (NY Times March 19, 1972)

February 25, 2016 6 Comments

Know Your History: Israel’s Offer to Repatriate Arab Refugees (NY Times July 1967)

February 24, 2016 2 Comments

Know Your History: The “Refugee Problem” (NY Times Jan 4, 1957)

February 23, 2016 2 Comments

Know Your History: The Six Day War (NY Times June 8, 1967)

February 22, 2016 4 Comments

Know Your History: French Leftists Supported Israel (NY Times June 3, 1967)

February 21, 2016 1 Comment

Know Your History: Dr Martin Luther King’s Support For Israel, One Week Before Six-Day War

February 19, 2016 4 Comments

Know Your History: Founding Of The PLO (NY Times May 31, 1964)

February 18, 2016 7 Comments

Know Your History: Palestine, The Land Of Promise (NY Times Sept 24, 1922)

February 16, 2016 2 Comments

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

February 15, 2016 No Comments

Know Your History: Prince Faisal (NY Times March 28, 1920)

February 14, 2016 1 Comment

Know Your History: The Palestine Of 1897 (NY Times Aug 15, 1897)

February 12, 2016 2 Comments

Know Your History: Arab Boycott (NY Times Dec 4, 1945)

February 11, 2016 10 Comments

Another Map Of Palestine, Another Own Goal For Israel Haters

November 15, 2015 3 Comments

A Map Of Palestine From 1759!

November 14, 2015 8 Comments

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Whatever Happened To…Israeli Soldier On The Cover Of Life June 1967

June 10, 2015 7 Comments

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