Posts Tagged: History of Israel
Bonds Building Bonds — Honoring Generations of Sound Investment
JNS.org - If anyone in your family celebrated a bar or bat mitzvah, a wedding, or the birth of a baby after September 3, 1950,...
A Lesson for Seth Rogen (and All Jews) on Early Zionists and Arabs
Seth Rogen's interview on Marc Maron's WTF podcast, and his heartbreaking confession about how he was "fed a huge amount of lies about Israel my...
Israel’s Miracle — 100 Years Later
JNS.org - We recently marked the 100th anniversary of the San Remo Conference. The international meeting was held by the Allied Supreme Council in the...
Clarifying the Palestine Saga
The Palestinian leadership is rehashing the notion that Palestine has been Arab/Muslim from time immemorial. But is such a claim consistent with historic documentation? According to...
No, the United Nations Didn’t Create Israel
JNS.org - Hanan Ashwari, a member of the PLO Executive Committee, recently restated one of her favorite falsehoods about the creation of Israel. This falsehood...
The Roots of the Pro-Israel, Pro-Peace Lobby
I have been going through the archives of the pro-peace, pro-Jewish state (later Israel) lobby, and I've found some interesting fundraising letters that offer insight...
David Ben-Gurion and the Meaning of ‘Mamlachtiut’
For David Ben-Gurion, the concept of mamlachtiut captured the perennial tension between the establishment of the State of Israel as an orderly and delimited institutional...
No, Israel Was Not Created by the United Nations
Arab News has a typical anti-Israel screed by Chris Doyle, director of the London-based Council for Arab-British Understanding. He writes, "Israel was a child of the UN,...
Muslim Western Wall Denial Continues
Hanna Issa, the Secretary General of the Islamic-Christian Committee to Support Occupied Jerusalem and Holy Sites, wrote an article where he denied that the Western Wall...
Israel’s Nationality Law: The Prequel
In April 1938, the British parliament was asked to approve a Jewish Citizenship Bill that would enable Jews worldwide to become nationals of Mandatory Palestine,...
Charles de Gaulle and David Ben Gurion’s Defense of Israel
One of the most passionate and eloquent cases for the State of Israel is virtually unknown. Prior to the Six Day War, France had been...
Why History Still Matters: The 1967 Six-Day War
Mention history, and it can trigger a roll of the eyes. Add the Middle East to the equation, and folks might start running for the hills,...
Time to Abandon the ‘Original Sin’ Theory
JNS.org - As welcome as the remarkably diverse condemnations of Mahmoud Abbas’ latest antisemitic speech have been over the last few days -- with UNESCO’s new director-general, The New York...
In the Middle East, Not All Narratives Are Valid
In the Middle East, not all narratives are valid or equal; some are based on lies. And the biggest falshehood of them all is the narrative of...
