In the future, a day will come and we will have to explain how was it is that we, the survivors of the people who went through a terrible Holocaust, are carrying out a softened small version of that disaster to the Palestinians, where were we when that was happening and what did we do. — By Ram Cohen (Translated by Sol Salbe) I had received a gift during one of my trips to the Majdanek death camp in Poland. The students had walked around with the guides who explained what they saw, and I ended up alone, all by myself. One of the students, Hadas…

Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters has an obsession with human rights abuses. Israel has an obsession with trampling Waters. I prefer his obsession. ■ Waters is anti-Zionist. His position re the Occupation, the Nakba, and the problematic nature of the Jewish state is, in essence, correct. — By Rogel Alpher • Translated by Sol Salbe Loathing of Roger Waters is the only common denominator of Kahanism and the Zionist Left, of the voters of Itamar Ben-Gvir and those of Meretz. …

For five months we’ve been warning that the threat to the democratic regime could seriously harm the Israeli startup nation ■ Now we can say with full confidence that everything we feared is happening on the ground: this is what the high-tech emergency braking looks like ■ High-tech entrepreneur Zohar Levkovitz in a special column — (Excerpt from the article translated from Hebrew by Ofer Neiman)

This is the mainstream’s grovelling in the face of fascism and the adoption of some of its mannerisms. The coverage of the Jerusalem Day Flags march on TV news programs — By Rogel Alpher • Haaretz (Translated by Sol Salbe) At the flag parade in Jerusalem hundreds screamed, “Death to the Arabs”, “May your village burn” and “A Jew is a soul — an Arab is a son of a bitch” [it rhymes in Hebrew]. A Palestinian was beaten while lying…

Less than a month ago, Israel celebrated its 75th Independence Day. Today, on 15 May, the Nakba’s 75th year is being marked worldwide. But what is the Palestinian catastrophe, and what does it have to do with Independence Day? — By Dotan Halevy, Maayan Hilel, and the Social History Workshop* In contrast with what the superficial propaganda might have you think, Nakba Day is not when Palestinians mourn the establishment of Israel as a crisis in itself. …

A poem by Samah Sabawi — The show is back by popular demand Embrace your little ones, hold their hands…tight Maybe a lullaby will take their minds off the falling bombs tonight Houses will crumble like a broken dream High rises will disintegrate into rubble and steel And screams will pierce your ears like shards of glass Say a prayer, close their…

In Memory of Liyan Madoukh, 10, who was killed by the Israeli military in Gaza, May 10, 2023 — Hi Mama I’m talking to you from Heaven, where it doesn’t hurt anymore to brush my curly hair. I remember now how you were flaunting my hair to those who made remarks about it: “We’re just born with curly hair; actually people go to hairdressers to make it curly!” Mama……

This is the situation in Gaza. Scary fighter jets circle there at these very minutes, every single one of their supersonic boom crushes dozens more children and destroys their lives — By Ram Cohen* • Translated by Sol Salbe You go to sleep at night and wake up with a war. All this gobbledygook about the elimination of senior officials in Gaza has already exhausted itself. …

Factsheet by The Institute for Middle East Understanding (IMEU) — General Facts & Figures The Palestinian “Nakba” (“catastrophe” in Arabic) refers to the mass expulsion of Palestinian Arabs from British Mandate Palestine during Israel’s creation (1947–49). The Nakba was not an unintended result of war. It was a deliberate and systematic act necessary for the creation of a Jewish majority state in historic Palestine…