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FROM TIME IMMEMORIAL – Joan Peters – Chapter 13: A Hidden Movement: Illegal Arab...
Introduction
Joan Peters opens her chapter with quotes from British officials:
“Arab immigration into Palestine? Why, it did not exist. There was no such thing. No one ever kept track of that.
-Veteran archivist, British Public Record...
Joan Peters, From Time Immemorial, Chapter 14: Official Disregard of Arab Immigration
Introduction:
The history of the British people has been indelibly stained by the record of the British Government's mendacious, mal-intentioned management of the Palestine Mandate.
As the reader will see, those twin contortionists, the British...
Joan Peters, From Time Immemorial, chapt. 18: The Flight from Fact
Introduction:
It was a privilege to re-read and summarize a chapter in this book. I hope that I was able to capture the nature of the author that permeates the pages: a devoted humanitarian, but...
BBC reporter revealed to be member of secret anti-Israel Facebook group
The indefatigable David Collier has published a long two-part report about a secret Facebook Group called ‘Palestine Live’ that includes among its membership Holocaust deniers, antisemites and conspiracy theorists.
Part one of the report can be found here and...
Indiscretions in the newest UNRWA textbooks
Having read the UNRWA official response to their critics, UNRWA declares that they found some 3% of the total pages inconsistent with UN values of neutrality, gender equity and age-appropriateness, but they do not...
Visiting Ramallah
Our revenge will be the laughter of our children”; painted on a wall inside of the “Hostel in Ramallah.” (Lilia Gaufberg)
This past July, at the peak of another sweltering Israeli summer, I hopped onto...
The Palestinian textbook problem
On what values does the Palestinian Authority and United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) school system raise and educate generations of students? Dr. Arnon Gross, formerly a senior Arabic language broadcaster at Voice...
Editorial: UNRWA reform, and a new beginning
For some, the thought of President Trump’s decision to withhold $65 million in pledged aid to a United Nations agency that provides food, housing, and education to Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza...
The 20th Century Cleric Behind the 21st Century Hate
Against the backdrop of spiking anti-Semitism on both sides of the Atlantic, the Simon Wiesenthal Center released its annual Top Ten anti-Semitic/Anti-Israel list.
Beyond #1--the Nazi March in Charlottesville, which thrust the new generation of homegrown US...