Tag: Land confiscation

09 September 2013 By Jewish Voice for Peace In Nakba

U.S. confident Israel has no expansion plans

The U.S. State Department, in this June 22, 1949 document, reports that the Ambassador to Tel Aviv "states that, although some extremists in the Israeli army and legislature advocate expansion by the use...

09 September 2013 By Jewish Voice for Peace In Nakba

Archival Documents from ‘Ayn Ghazal

These documents outline the case of 'Ayn Ghazal...

03 September 2013 By Jewish Voice for Peace In Nakba

Will we ever find out what the censors left out?

"On September 26, 1948, the Israeli cabinet discussed Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion's proposal that the Israel Defense Forces capture the southern portion of what is now called the West Bank - specifically, from...

03 September 2013 By Jewish Voice for Peace In Nakba

Institutionalizing Statelessness: The Revocation of Residency RIghts of Palestinians in East Jerusalem

This 2011 article examines the methods by which Israel institutionalizes statelessness among Palestinians from East Jerusalem through national citizenship and entry laws. Through the lens of the international legal framework, notably the right...

20 August 2013 By Jewish Voice for Peace In Nakba

The Original “No”: Why the Arabs Rejected Zionism, and Why It Matters

"A viable peace process does not require either party to embrace or even recognize the legitimacy of the other's narrative. It requires that both have an informed and non-reductionist understanding of what this...

28 June 2013 By Jewish Voice for Peace In Nakba

Memory of the Cactus: Film

A 42 minute documentary film that combines the cactus and the memories it stands for. The film addresses the story of the destruction of the Palestinian villages of Latroun in the Occupied West...

28 June 2013 By Jewish Voice for Peace In Nakba

The Peel Commission Report Summary: July 1937

The Commission was formed in response to the breakout of hostilities between Arabs and Jews in Mandate Palestine in April 1936. The Commission concluded that only partition of Palestine between Arabs and Jews...

30 May 2013 By Jewish Voice for Peace In Nakba

Going back to Lifta, a Palestinian exile returns: Video

Yacoub Odeh, a Palestinian who fled from Lifta, west Jerusalem in 1948, shows film-maker Mat Heywood around his deserted home village, now under threat from Israeli plans to build a luxury resort. Click here...

21 May 2013 By Jewish Voice for Peace In Nakba

We put the Arabs on buses

In May 1948, the 13th battalion conquered Beit She'an (Bisan), one of the 17 largest Arab towns in Palestine. In fact, it was not a conquest, but rather occupation in the wake of...

21 May 2013 By Jewish Voice for Peace In Nakba

Absentees’ Property Law

This law defines absentees, vests absentees' property rights in care of "the Custodian," and grants to the Custodian "every right an absentee had in any property," so that the "status of the Custodian...

U.S. confident Israel has no expansion plans

Archival Documents from ‘Ayn Ghazal

Will we ever find out what the censors left out?

Institutionalizing Statelessness: The Revocation of Residency RIghts of Palestinians in East Jerusalem

The Original “No”: Why the Arabs Rejected Zionism, and Why It Matters

Memory of the Cactus: Film

The Peel Commission Report Summary: July 1937

Going back to Lifta, a Palestinian exile returns: Video

We put the Arabs on buses

Absentees’ Property Law

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