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Matzav Review
March 28, 2018
He addressed the criticism against him for not completing the conquest of the land in the Knesset in April 1949: “The establishment of a Jewish state throughout the whole country without using the methods of action taken in Deir Yassin can only be a dictatorship of the minority … a Jewish state, in theÃâà...
The Debrief
March 27, 2018
One such group is an anti-Israel campaign group Deir Yassin Remembered (DYR). One of the groups co-organisers, Mrs Kaffash, is considered by some to be a Holocaust sceptic as this Telegraph investigation argues. In 2016 an official report which looked into anti-Semitism within Labour was publishedÃâà...
LBC
March 26, 2018
"Or because he supported Paul Eisen's Deir Yassin group, when Eisen is a self-confessed Holocaust denier. "Or because he calls Hamas and Hezbollah, both of them terrorist, genocidal organisations who want to kill Jews, his friends and invited them into parliament. "Or because the blood-libelling SheikhÃâà...
Palestine Chronicle
March 26, 2018
In Teeri hada Ya wazi, she sings of a bird flying sadly over the land, naming Safad, Deir Yassin, Yafa and Haifa among the cities, towns and villages. For her, the land of Palestine stretched from the river to the sea and its cultural heritage could not so easily be divided politically from its people. Nor could theÃâà...
Dissident Voice
March 18, 2018
The Irgun famously blew up the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, killing 91 people, and carried out the Deir Yassin massacre, the most notorious single attack on a Palestinian community during the Nakba. It led to mass flight by Palestinians from their homes. Lehi, meanwhile, regularly mounted lethal attacksÃâà...
Center for Research on Globalization
March 13, 2018
One of the better-documented massacres occurred in a small, neutral Palestinian village called Deir Yassin in April 1948 – before any Arab armies had joined the war. Richard Catling, British assistant inspector general for the criminal investigation division, reported on “sexual atrocities” committed byÃâà...
The Hindu
March 10, 2018
Are some years in their entirety, as opposed to discrete events, more pivotal than others so that all these decades later we are still left dealing with their reverberations? And if so, how do we get a measure of their lasting impact on our lives? In recent years, answers to these questions have been attemptedÃâà...
The Arab Daily News (blog)
March 7, 2018
But Begin, who was responsible for the murder of more than 100 women and children at Deir Yassin on April 19, 1947, broke that agreement, blocking all efforts to achieve peace with the Palestinians. Jordan's monarch, King Hussein, signed a peace accord after Israel's Prime Minister Yitzhak RabinÃâà...
Jewish Journal
March 1, 2018
Eliezer Tauber is an Israeli academic who specializes in the modern history of the Middle East. In the past decade, he dedicated a lot of time to writing a book about the so-called “massacre of Deir Yassin.” The result was a book arguing that there was no massacre in Deir Yassin. A detailed account of aÃâà...
Arab News
February 28, 2018
But Begin, who was responsible for the murder of more than 100 women and children at Deir Yassin in 1948, broke that agreement, blocking all efforts to achieve peace with the Palestinians. Jordan's monarch, King Hussein, signed an accord after Israel's Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin agreed to peace withÃâà...
Center for Research on Globalization
February 26, 2018
Leader of LEHI, the so-called Stern Gang militia, was responsible, together with the Irgun, for the massacre of the entire Palestinian village of Deir Yassin on April 9th., 1948. Arial Sharon, born Scheinermann, former prime Minister, was defence minister and held by the court to be personally responsible forÃâà...
West Hartford News
February 13, 2018
Her short story, “Deir Yassin,” also appears in the Wallant Award anthology, “The New Diaspora: The Changing Landscape of American Jewish Fiction” (Wayne State University Press, 2015). “We (the Wallant Award judges) have followed Margot's work since the publication of her collection of short stories,Ãâà...
Pune Mirror
February 10, 2018
The director was unsettled by a question posed by a member of the audience after Main Houn Yusuf Aur Yeh Hai Mera Bhai , a play set in 1948 in Palestine at the time of the Deir Yassin Massacre. “Someone asked why bother bringing a subject from Palestine here?” recalls Pednekar, “This gave me anÃâà...
New Europe
February 4, 2018
... nor is the 1948 massacre of Palestinians at Deir Yassin discussed much in polite Israeli society. The Turks long ago criminalised any mention of the nearly 2 million Armenians they murdered during the First World War and Ukrainian nationalists are never interested in bringing up the amount of blood thatÃâà...
Haaretz
February 1, 2018
Nakba Day will be marked on April 9, the date of the Deir Yassin massacre in 1948, and it will be a national memorial day for the Palestinian “catastrophe” for when Israel was formed. A government committee will work in conjunction with the Higher Arab Monitoring Committee to determine the content andÃâà...
Haaretz
July 16, 2017
Last Friday together with Etzel – the acronym for the National Military Organization, also known as the Irgun, another pre-state underground militia, led by Menachem Begin – our movement carried out a tremendous operation to occupy the Arab village on the Jerusalem-Tel Aviv road – Deir Yassin.
Socialist Worker
December 31, 1999
After the massacre, the militias boasted to the press of how many Arabs they had killed. The New York Times subsequently reported that 254 Arabs were killed in Deir Yassin—the Palestinian village wiped out 70 years ago this month. That massacre has since come to symbolise all the crimes committedÃâà...
The Arab Daily News (blog)
December 31, 1999
But Begin, who was responsible for the murder of more than 100 women and children at Deir Yassin on April 19, 1947, broke that agreement, blocking all efforts to achieve peace with the Palestinians. Jordan's monarch, King Hussein, signed a peace accord after Israel's Prime Minister Yitzhak RabinÃâà...
Arab News
December 31, 1999
At no moment in American life do Arabs feel so marginalized each year than during the presentation of the Oscars at the Academy Awards. This past Sunday, the Oscars marked their 90th year celebrating “great” movies. While this year's entries did not have the usual anti-Arab themes or characters thatÃâà...
Jewish Journal
December 31, 1999
Corbyn has previously referred to the Jew-hating terror groups Hamas and Hezbollah as “friends” and was supportive Deir Yassin Remembered, which is filled with Holocaust deniers. Corbyn also once worked for Iran's state media outlet Press TV. Anti-Semitism has also risen within the ranks of the LabourÃâà...
