Contrary to the conventional wisdom, Israel’s Arab citizens have never been nearly as deprived and marginalized as they are commonly represented. Rather, they have made astounding socioeconomic progress over the past decades, at a higher pace than their Jewish counterparts, with the result that th...
“This is a misinformation war. Make no mistake about it. The propaganda is real,” wrote one Instagram user who shared the collage. “Ask yourself: why do they need? #Pallywood #Gaza #FreePalestine from #Hamas.” But not all of the photos in the montage show the same person. For exa...
In the misleading video circulating online, the English captions claim Kim says: “Under the Biden administration, conflicts erupt yearly. This year a war begins between Israel and Palestine.” “I’m afraid that if the Biden admin does not cease to exist in the next election, World War ...
“The new front line is online,” a statement by Rt Hon Oliver Dowden resonating louder than ever in the wake of global conflicts such as those in Ukraine, and Israel and Palestine. The evidence of evolving threats is overwhelming—from bots… Posted on November 17, 2023 Val Dockrell Cyber...
that faith. The Arabs took Palestine from the Byzantine empire in 634–640. Interrupted only by Christian Crusaders, Muslims ruled Palestine until the 20th century. During World War I, British forces defeated the Turks in Palestine and governed the area under a League of Nations mandate from ...
leaders, from Haj Amin al-Husseini, the grand mufti of Jerusalem who met with Adolf Hitler in 1941 to discuss the destruction of the Jews, to Azzam Pasha, the secretary-general of the Arab League who described the Arab invasion of the then-nascent Israel in 1948 as a 'war of ...
‘victim’ angle in anti-Israel propaganda which suggests the battle was between the Arab nations and the Jews, with the poor Arab residents of British Palestine standing innocently in the middle. It is ahistorical hogwash. An image from Jerusalem of Arab volunteers for their Holy War against ...
The idea of military struggle was prepared by Arafat and Fatah and modeled after guerrillas fighting in the Algerian War of Independence. AfterAlgeria’s1962 victory overFrance, Fatah and the fedayeen (guerillas operating againstIsrael) became dominant in Palestinian mobilization. Arafat was appointed ...
Around this same time, Christian maps often put east at the top. This referenced the Christian sites in modern day Israel/Palestine, Lebanon, Egypt, and Syria. The Mappa Mundi, created around 1300 by England’s Hereford Cathedral, put Jerusalem at its center, God above and Africa to the ri...
a UN plan for their own state. Those events set the stage for the forceful expulsion of countless other Palestinian Arabs from Jewish-held areas. That military necessity resulted after seven Arab armies invaded western Palestine with the goal of exterminating the newly born State of Israel. ...