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Where Did The Name Palestine Come From?

  1. Toward the end of the 13th century BCE, the tribes of Israel entered Canaan from the east and

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The Jews of Iran: 10 Amazing Facts

Dive into the rich and surprising history of the Jews of Iran.

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Blood Libels, Then and Now

JNS.org - This past Wednesday was the 20th of Sivan, which was once a fast day that commemorated the first violent blood libel. (The Vaad Arba Aratzot later redesignated it to commemorate the Cossack massacres of 1648-1649.) In 1144, 12-year-old William o

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Abraham Lincoln and the Jews: 10 Fascinating Facts

Snapshots of Lincoln’s remarkable relationship with Jews.

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The Youngest Holocaust Survivor

Erika Nissanoff was born on October 17, 1944 in a Nazi hospital in Austria. Her miraculous birth and survival is a harrowing story that everyone should hear.

She was only 24 when I was born.

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They Criticized the Entebbe Rescue, Too

The Soviet and Chinese governments denounced what they called “the Zionist aggression.” United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim charged that Israel had committed a “serious violation of the sovereignty” of Uganda. 

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Jewish History: 10 Facts You Should Know About Queen Salome Alexandra

A ruler from ancient Judea's Second Temple times, she embodied nobility and righteousness.

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Some Facts About the Holocaust for Those Just Learning

Between the years 1938 and 1945 the German Nazis and their willing collaborators murdered 6 million Jews and millions of others.

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Elder Of Ziyon - Prayer before eating bread on Passover, Bergen-Belsen, 1944

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Elder Of Ziyon - Muslims don't just deny 10/7 - but every massacre of Jews

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Did the USSR Invent Palestinian Nationalism?

During the Cold War, the Soviet Union spent millions funding Palestinian leaders in a proxy war between the U.S. and the USSR. But why would the USSR invest ...

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Elder Of Ziyon - More photos of weeds on the Temple Mount, 1872

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The Year We Hung Hitler

A 1946 Purim celebration in the Landsberg DP camp

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The Japanese Abraham – Commentary Magazine

There’s a bestselling book by the psychologist Robert Cialdini titled Pre-Suasion: A Revolutionary Way to Influence and Persuade. In one point in this largely non-Jewish book, we are shown a

This is an amazing story, but is just one among thousands of amazing stories about Jewish people and G-d's intervention in our lives.

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When the US supported Zionist territorial claims

One could ask Blinken whether “old” settlements are legal or whether it is only “any expansion” of Jewish communities that would be illegal.

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The Search for the Ten Lost Tribes

What happened to the ten tribes and where are they today?

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Elder Of Ziyon - Arabs say Jewish challah covers were a factor that forced them to murder Jews in 1929. This is the "logic" of today's terrorist defenders.

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Elder Of Ziyon - Does Gaza Belong to the Jews? (Judean Rose)

Is Gaza a part of indigenous Jewish territory as promised to the Jews by God?

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AGHamilton Shares the Beautiful Story of 'Operation Solomon' and It's a Beautiful Start to the New Year

 AGHamilton has spent much of his time educating people on the plight of the Jewish people and battling anti-Semites as of late.

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Jews, Muslims, And An “Origin Story” Of The Arab-Israeli Conflict

The October 7, 2023, Hamas attacks on Israeli civilians, and the worldwide moral outrage that that day’s savagery generated were only paralleled by a gleeful schadenfreude that overtook many European capitals and other places around the globe, from the Ar

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Rejection of the UN Partition Plan of November 29, 1947, Was a Prequel to the October 7 Massacre

The more things change in the Middle East, the more they stay the same - Rejection of the UN Partition Plan of November 29, 1947, Was a Prequel to the October 7 Massacre

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Why Aren’t the Arabs the ‘Colonizers’?

The people braying about the alleged “settler colonialism” of Israel conveniently ignore the Arabs' history of conquest and cultural imperialism.

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On Israel and ‘Root Causes’

According to today's Hamasophiles, Gaza's leadership is justified in their terror attacks against Israel because "Zionists stole their land." Before that…

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What You Need to Know About Origins of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Joel Pollak provides a quick run-down of the origins of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that has erupted into a full-scale war in Gaza.

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There Is No Such Thing As 'Palestinians'

(This column is Part 1 of a series of articles explaining the fallacies that have led to the world’s leftists supporting Palestine, Gaza, and Hamas’ horrors)
The patterns of the anti-Semitic/Marxist/”...

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The Meaning of Am Yisrael Chai

We always knew how to die together. The time has come for us to know also how to live together.

עם ישראל חי!

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Elder Of Ziyon - For some strange reason, Palestinians didn't behead Egyptian babies between 1949 and 1967

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Jews Are Not “Stealing” Judea: How Progressive Myopia Inflames Antisemitism

Recognizing antisemitism is not always easy. It disguises itself behind facades that grant it respectability in different societies and cultures.

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The two main lessons of the Yom Kippur War

Israel learned not to ignore the signs of approaching war and bask in the euphoria of the achievements of the past, however great they may be. But the signs of peace should not be ignored either.

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The Conveniently Forgotten Context of Israel's Six-Day War

In 1967, Israel was invaded in a military assault with the declared goal of wiping the Jewish state off the map.

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Elder Of Ziyon - Nazis insisted on humane cattle cars - for cattle, not Jews. The logic behind it is relevant for "human rights defenders" today.

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Elder Of Ziyon - End the Lebanese and Jordanian occupation of Palestine!

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Elder Of Ziyon - Remembering what happens when Jews rely on others

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A List of Communities in Ashkenaz Obliterated by Violence During the Black Death

Jewish martyrology from medieval Germany

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Israelis Commemorate Exodus 1947, The ‘ship That Launched A Nation’

On July 18, 1947, some 4,550 refugees - survivors of the Holocaust - set off across the Mediterranean Sea, just two years removed from the destruction of Europe - Click the link for more details.

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The Distorted ‘Nakba’ Narrative

Comparisons to the Holocaust are misleading and appalling.

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Nazism and the Palestinians

Since Amin al-Husseini forged his alliance with Hitler, Nazism has profoundly influenced the Palestinian national movement.

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A Slaughter of Jews in Ukraine

Who perpetrated the Lviv pogrom of July 1941?

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'Exodus' immigrant's diary shows hardships of post-Shoah refugees

Miriam Sternberg Wechsler was 19 when she boarded the ship alone.

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Elder Of Ziyon - interesting example of Nazi propaganda in the US in 1933

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The Chassidic Member of Parliament Who Stood Up to the Soviets

When the Sixth Rebbe was arrested, Latvian MP Mordechai Dubin took action

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The Six Day War: Six fateful days for Israel in 1967

The Six Day War saw Israel achieve a momentous victory over its Arab enemies. The ramifications continue to impact the Jewish state to this day.

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The ‘Nakba’ Narrative is Nonsense

JNS.org - In the years since Israel’s rebirth in 1948 a narrative has taken root, a story of well-armed and financed Jewish immigrants overrunning peaceful Palestinian villages, brutally expelling Palestinians from home and country. This narrative is summ

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Elder Of Ziyon - The Jews had every reason to fear genocide in 1948

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Shattering Another Excuse for FDR's Holocaust Apathy

Contemporary defenders of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Holocaust record argue that there was no point in bombing the railways to Auschwitz because the Germans sometimes were able to repair railway lines fairly quickly.

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Elder Of Ziyon - Jews acting like adults while Arabs act like babies - in 1948

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Polish Responsibility for the Holocaust Was Not Minor

A New Read on Jewish Life

One of the most heinous pieces of historical revisionism happening right now is Poland’s attempt to pretend to be a victim of the Holocaust instead of one of its prime perpetrators.

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Jewish National Fund reveals photos from Israel's early days of independence

  In honor of Israel's 75th Independence Day, the Jewish National Fund revealed this week special photos of the country's

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Jerusalem or Louisiana, the Matter of Title Has Long Been Resolved

From the blog of Leonard Grunstein at Jewish Standard

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Misconceptions about Warsaw Ghetto Uprising abound, says historian Zachary Mazur

Ahead of a lecture commemorating the 80th anniversary of the uprising, Mazur told JNS that “there is plenty of ignorance” about the uprising and its context.

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How the Palestinians got their name

The Palestinians can call themselves whatever they want, but they cannot hijack 3,000 years of history.

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Elder Of Ziyon - According to Arab interpretations of international law in 1930, Jews have the sole right to the Temple Mount today!

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Elder Of Ziyon - 75 years ago: Jewish heroes saving lives - and getting killed for it

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Just where on earth was 'Palestine'?

Exposing the media myth: Palestine - a land of authentic 'splendour' filled with indigenous Palestinians. Or was it? Have a read inside.

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First Came the Zionists, THEN Came the Palestinians...

The Palestinians like to tell everyone they lived in "Palestine" since dinosaur times then the bad Zionists came from Europe and displaced them. This is a ve...

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Elder Of Ziyon - 80 years ago: Nazis massacre Jewish leaders in Tripoli before leaving

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HRC Op-Ed In The Hill Times: History Doesn’t Support Giving Israel An ‘Occupier’ Label

HRC’s Op-Ed entitled: “History Doesn’t Support Giving Israel An ‘Occupier’ Label” was published in The Hill Times on Wednesday, January 25,

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Elder Of Ziyon - To understand today's antisemitism disguised as anti-Zionism, look to the past

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New exhibit on DP camps showcases ‘extraordinary energy’ of the Jewish people

“You see this extraordinary power of their will to live, to create a future for their children and themselves that is connected to their heritage to their traditions,” said Jonathan Brent, YIVO CEO and executive director, of the exhibit at United Nations

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Jewish Soldiers Helped Liberate Palestine From the Ottoman Empire

Tombstones in the Trumpeldor Cemetery in Tel Aviv. Photo: Ovedc via Wikicommons. A recent article from National Library of Israel …

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Israel at 75: The ancient love story between the Jewish people and their homeland

History has not always been kind to the Jewish people, but the ongoing Israel adventure feels downright miraculous, writes Gil Troy

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Elder Of Ziyon - 75 years ago: Another forgotten massacre of Jews

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'The great unpunishment': How, why so many Holocaust perpetrators got away with it

Fewer than 600 of those who enacted the Holocaust received heavy sentences after WWII. David Wilkinson's docu explores how the mass of Nazi criminals, collaborators escaped justice

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Elder Of Ziyon - If anti-Zionism isn't antisemitism, why did Arabs recruit Nazis in 1948?

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Making sense of the great Mizrahi exodus

The history and memory of the Jews expelled from Arab countries has been suppressed in order to demonize Zionism.

People who whine about the, self-inflicted, “Nakba” never as acknowledge the millions of Jews ejected from communities in which they had lived for thousands of years. The difference is that Israel took every last one of them in, while the Arab nations decided to exploit Arab “refugees” and push the lie of the fictional Arab “Palestinian.”

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Why Hanukkah Made Western Civilization Possible

Hanukkah made western civilization possible by preserving idea of one God instead of pagan beliefs of many gods. Holiday is more than just a Jewish victory.

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Elder Of Ziyon - 24 years since the PLO fooled Clinton into thinking they amended their charter

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Islamist Terror; Journalistic Error

In a valuable new book, historian Richard Landes argues that Western reporting on the Second Palestinian Intifada helped to seed a misunderstanding of terrorism.

“The failures of journalism that Landes examines did not begin in 2000 with the Second Intifada. The idea of Israel as oppressor and colonialist interloper and the Palestinians as innocent victims have been central to Arab and Palestinian Arab political culture since the 1940s. In the early 1950s, the Soviet Union, the support of which during 1947–49 was so important to the establishment of the Jewish state, joined Israel’s enemies in maintaining that first Zionists and then the state of Israel were to blame for the conflict. From the 1960s to the end of the Cold War, an anti-Israeli consensus emerged in the United Nations General Assembly. The Soviet bloc, communist China and other communist regimes joined Islamic states, many Third World nations, and the Arab states in denouncing Zionism as a form of racism and Israel as a practitioner of cruelty and aggression.”

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The Temple Mount: Whose Is It?

Palestinian Arab terror groups charged that the Jewish presence on the Mount was improper, infringed upon Arab Muslim right, had to cease.

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I Was Robbed of 70% of the Land of Israel

This is the kind of information that most people simply don't know and those that do, are too dishonest to discuss it. It is important for you to read and then share it out. It's time to reclaim the n

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The Failed British Double-Cross of Israel

Heretofore overlooked British General Staff documents demonstrate that the oft-marginalized Lehi leader Avraham ‘Yair’ Stern’s assessment of British intentions toward Mandate Palestine was correct

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Israel: What happened to the 1947 UN Partition Plan?

How the Palestinians rejected sovereignty, part 2: The UN partition plan

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Elder Of Ziyon - A short history of "Arabs Threaten Jews" (not "Zionists")

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The One Week of World War II That Gave Rise to the Modern Middle East

This week marks the 80th anniversary of three seismic events in North Africa that would change the shape of the entire Middle East. On November 8, 1942, Britain and the U.S. launched Operation Torch—the invasion of French North Africa (today Morocco and Algeria).

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Jewish History: The Balfour bogeyman

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Peter Bergson - The Unintended Hero of the Holocaust Era

Saving 200,000 European Jews.

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Elder Of Ziyon - Britain Needs To Apologize To The Jews for What They Did During The Mandate, More Than To The Arabs

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Elder Of Ziyon - The King David Hotel Bombing—What Arab Terrorist Ever Warned a Jew, First? (Judean Rose)

Was the King David Hotel bombing an example of "Jewish terror?"

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How Ken Burns Misuses the Holocaust

Ken Burns’s documentaries blend striking visuals of still photos or archival film with colorful and often insightful analysis and narration. But his skill as

Burns is a leftist hack who is exploiting the Shoah to prop up the left’s dangerous immigration policies.

“What Burns omits is more telling. His 2014 production, The Roosevelts: An Intimate History, included at least some criticism of FDR’s inaction when it came to the Holocaust. But this film—a film about the Holocaust—consistently defends him. The story told here is one in which the president, a man who had largely unchallenged political power as he bestrode the American scene, wanted to do more but was prevented from doing so. In this telling, it is a nativist Congress, Jew-haters at the State Department, the general acceptance of anti-Semitism, as well as the exigencies of fighting the war and the impossibility of effective action or rescue that stopped this well-meaning president from saving more Jews.”

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Auschwitz Was Not Bombed Because the World Didn’t Care

The sign “Arbeit macht frei” (“Work makes you free”) is pictured at the main gate of the former Nazi concentration …

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The first Jew to escape Auschwitz helped save 200,000 lives -- but few know his name

Rudolf Vrba should be celebrated for his role in preventing the deportation of many of Budapest's Jews, says UK author Jonathan Freedland in his new book, 'The Escape Artist'

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Elder Of Ziyon - There was a single Muslim poem about Jerusalem written before 1967. It is about revenge against Crusaders.

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Obviously written out of animosity toward Crusaders, not because of any particular feelings about Jerusalem.

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American filmmaker Ken Burns has a Palestine problem

Why is Burns trying to disqualify Palestine from the conversation? Why resort to a technicality about sovereignty in order to try to push Palestine out of the discussion?

Jen Burns turned out to be a real bastard. Just like the Democrat’s hero FDR.

“Sadly, Roosevelt chose to keep Jews out of the Virgin Islands, despite the offer by the governor and legislative assembly of that territory to open their doors to Jews fleeing Hitler.”

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The Jewish 'nakba' was greater than the Arab • Point of No Return

The following is an extract from one chapter, including footnotes, from The  Industry of Lies  by Israeli journalist Ben-Dror Yemini. It is an insightful and concise must-read. The book was published by Norwegian pro-Israel group Med Israel For Fred (MIFF