Zachary Foster
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Historian of Palestine | PhD | Founder of Palestine Nexus ↓
FOX NEWS INVESTIGATION: 425 organizations with a combined $1 billion in annual revenues coordinate 736 anti-Israel 'Nakba 78' protests across 39 countries today — a transnational network that includes communist groups, Marxist-funded nonprofits and coalitions linked to Chinese Communist Party sympathizers. The campaign's own materials don't call for a ceasefire or two-state solution. They call for the dismantling of Israel itself, framing the U.S. as a 'fascist, imperialist, genocidal settler state' and erasing Israel's name entirely from their literature. The U.S. leads all nations with 187 events planned.
Rama Duwaji wants the spotlight, just not the scrutiny. My latest for @TheFP
Today is Nakba Day, commemorating Israel’s mass expulsion of the Palestinians in 1948. Zionist forces raped dozens of Palestinian women during the war. Here is a summary of the known incidents: 1. In April 1948, Zionist forces attacked Deir Yassin. Zionist commander Yitzhak Levy reported on April 13: "‘Lehi members tell of the barbaric behaviour of the IZL toward the prisoners and the dead. They also relate that the Irgun men raped a number of Arab girls and murdered them afterward." (Morris, The Birth, p.238. Morris's source on this is a report from the IDF archives.). Ilan Pappe adds: “ As they burst into the village [of Deir Yassin], the Jewish soldiers sprayed the houses with machine-gun fire, killing many of the inhabitants. The remaining villagers were then gathered in one place and murdered in cold blood, their bodies abused while a number of the women were raped and then killed." (Pappe, The Ethnic Cleansing, p.90). 2. In mid-April 1948, during the battle of Mishmar ha-Emek in the western Jezreel Valley, Eliezer Bauer (Be’eri) reported: “Also in the village, when adult males were discovered hiding hours after the end of the battle – they were killed . . . It is said that there were also cases of rape. (Morris, The Birth, p.243). 3. In mid-May, Zionist forces attacked Kfar Saba and Qaqun. “In Qaqun the UN claimed, and testimonies by Jewish troops corroborated, that the takeover had involved a case of rape.” Pappe, The Ethnic Cleansing, p.132.) 4. On May 14, 1948, Haganah & Irgun units occupied Jaffa. "On 14 or 15 May, a 12-year-old girl was raped by two Haganah soldiers; there were also a number of attempted rape." (Morris, The Birth, p.220, citing report from the IDF archives.). Very soon after Jaffa was occupied, a Red Cross official, de Meuron, reported how Jewish soldiers had raped a girl and killed her brother. (Pappe, The Ethnic Cleansing, p.209). 5. On May 13-18, 1948, the Haganah went on an offensive in Western Galilee, Operation Ben-Ami. "The only serious atrocity recorded was the rape-murder of a girl and the murder of her father." (Morris, The Birth, p.231) 6. On May 12-13, 1948, Zionist forces conquored Burayr, northeast of Gaza. “The 9th Battalion troops killed a large number of villagers, apparently executing dozens of army-age males. They appear also to have raped and murdered a teenage girl.” (Morris, The Birth, p.258, citing a Zionist memoir & Zionist oral history). 7. On 13 May, 1948, Zionist forces attacked Abu Shusha. During the operation, “One Haganah soldier twice attempted to rape a 20-year-old woman prisoner.” (Morris, The Birth, p. 257, citing a Haganah archival report). 8. On May 1, 1948, Palmach fighters shot several Palestinians in ‘Ein Zeitun (in the Upper Galilee). According to a May 4, 1948 British report of the attack, “women had been raped” in the village. Morris, The Birth, p.289. 9. May 1948: In Tantura, where Israeli soldiers also carried out a massacre, here is how Najiah Ayyub described what happened: 'I saw that the troops who encircled us tried to touch the women but were rejected by them When they saw that the women would not surrender, they stopped. When we were on the beach, they took two women and tried to undress them, claiming they had to search the bodies.” (Pappe, The Ethnic Cleansing, p.211) 10. In the summer of 1948, Palmach militiamen “raped and murdered” four village women from the inhabitants of the Shi‘ite village of Hunin, in the Galilee Panhandle (Morris, The Birth, p.249 & 461, citing a Haganah report) 11. July 1948: ”Reports had been received about Jewish behavior in previously occupied areas …. incidents of rape about which they had heard terrible stories from Acre and Ramla.” (Morris, 1948: A History, p.281). 12. In Oct. 1948, Zionist forces carried a massacre in Dawayima, executing a few hundred Palestinians. They were “‘lined up and killed by machinegun fire,” according to Morris. A Zionist report revealed: “one soldier boasted that he had raped a woman and then shot her.” (Morris, The Birth, p.470, citing a Kibbutz Meuhad Archives report). Pappe adds: “the Jewish soldiers who took part in the massacre also reported horrific scenes: babies whose skulls were cracked open, women raped or burned alive in houses, and men stabbed to death.” (Pappe, The Ethnic Cleansing, p.196). 13. On December 9, 1948, a Red Cross report tells of two Jewish soldiers who burst into the house of al-Hajj Suleiman Daud, who had been expelled with his family to Shaqara. The soldiers hit his wife and kidnapped his 18-year-old daughter. 17 days later the father was able to get hold of an Israeli lieutenant, to whom he protested. The abusers appeared to belong to Brigade Seven. Pappe writes: “It is impossible to know what exactly happened in those 17 days before the girl was set free; the worst may be presumed." (Pappe, The Ethnic Cleansing, p.209). 14. In February 1949, after Israel agreed to allow civilians to remain in the Palestinian towns of Faluja (what was transformed into Kiryat Gat), it quickly reneged on its promise, mounting a campaign of low-key violence and psychological warfare designed to intimidate the inhabitants into flight. The UN Mediator, Ralph Bunche, quoting UN observers reported that ‘Arab civilians . . . at Al Faluja have been beaten and robbed by Israeli soldiers and . . . there have been some cases of attempted rape.” (Morris, The Birth, p.522) 15. Israeli forces attacked Safsaf, a Palestinian village near Safed, on Nov 6, 1948. A Zionist archival report documents: “ ‘52 adult males’ tied together and dropped into a well and of three cases of rape, including of a 14-year-old girl. Nahmani also mentions several cases of rape and ‘a number of dead women’.” Arab oral testimony from the early 1970s, as recorded by Nazzal (Exodus, 93–95), more or less corroborates the contemporaneous Jewish documentation. According to Nazzal, the soldiers raped four women and blindfolded and executed ‘about 70’ men.” Morris, The Birth, p.481). Survivors recall how four women and a girl were raped in front of the other villagers and how one pregnant woman was bayoneted.” (Pappe, The Ethnic Cleansing, p.184) On 12 August 1949, Israeli soldiers based in Kibbutz Nirim on the northern edge of today's Gaza Strip, captured a 12-year-old Palestinian girl and locked her up for the night in their military base near the kibbutz. For the next few days she became the platoon's sex slave as the soldiers shaved her head, gang- raped her and in the end murdered her. Ben-Gurion lists this rape too in his diary but it was censored out by his editors. On 29 October 2003, the Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz publicised the story based on the testimonies of the rapists: 22 soldiers had taken part in the barbaric torture and execution of the girl.” (Pappe, The Ethnic Cleansing, p.210) Summary Morris concludes: “There were also several dozen cases of rape, a crime viewed with particular horror in Arab and Muslim societies.” (Morris, The Birth, p.592) Morris adds: “About a dozen cases—in Jaffa, Acre, and so on—are reported in the available contemporary documentation and, given Arab diffidence about reporting such incidents and the (understandable) silence of the perpetrators, and IDFA censorship of many documents, more, and perhaps many more, cases probably occurred.” (Morris, 1948: A History, p.406). Pappe writes: “David Ben-Gurion seems to have been informed about each [rape] case and entered them into his diary. Every few days he has a sub-section: 'Rape Cases'. One of these records the incident Chizik had reported to him: 'a case in Acre where soldiers wanted to rape a girl. They killed the father and wounded the mother, and the officers covered for them. At least one soldier raped the girl.' (Pappe, The Ethnic Cleansing, p.209). Sources: Benny Morris, The birth of the Palestinian refugee problem, 1947-1949 archive.org/details/birtho… Ilan Pappé, The ethnic cleansing of Palestine archive.org/details/ethnic… Benny Morris, 1948: History of the First Arab-Israeli War archive.org/details/1948hi…
Today is Nakba Day, commemorating Israel’s mass expulsion of the Palestinians in 1948. Zionist forces raped dozens of Palestinian women during the war. Here is a summary of the known incidents: 1. In April 1948, Zionist forces attacked Deir Yassin. Zionist commander Yitzhak Levy reported on April 13: "‘Lehi members tell of the barbaric behaviour of the IZL toward the prisoners and the dead. They also relate that the Irgun men raped a number of Arab girls and murdered them afterward." (Morris, The Birth, p.238. Morris's source on this is a report from the IDF archives.). Ilan Pappe adds: “ As they burst into the village [of Deir Yassin], the Jewish soldiers sprayed the houses with machine-gun fire, killing many of the inhabitants. The remaining villagers were then gathered in one place and murdered in cold blood, their bodies abused while a number of the women were raped and then killed." (Pappe, The Ethnic Cleansing, p.90). 2. In mid-April 1948, during the battle of Mishmar ha-Emek in the western Jezreel Valley, Eliezer Bauer (Be’eri) reported: “Also in the village, when adult males were discovered hiding hours after the end of the battle – they were killed . . . It is said that there were also cases of rape. (Morris, The Birth, p.243). 3. In mid-May, Zionist forces attacked Kfar Saba and Qaqun. “In Qaqun the UN claimed, and testimonies by Jewish troops corroborated, that the takeover had involved a case of rape.” Pappe, The Ethnic Cleansing, p.132.) 4. On May 14, 1948, Haganah & Irgun units occupied Jaffa. "On 14 or 15 May, a 12-year-old girl was raped by two Haganah soldiers; there were also a number of attempted rape." (Morris, The Birth, p.220, citing report from the IDF archives.). Very soon after Jaffa was occupied, a Red Cross official, de Meuron, reported how Jewish soldiers had raped a girl and killed her brother. (Pappe, The Ethnic Cleansing, p.209). 5. On May 13-18, 1948, the Haganah went on an offensive in Western Galilee, Operation Ben-Ami. "The only serious atrocity recorded was the rape-murder of a girl and the murder of her father." (Morris, The Birth, p.231) 6. On May 12-13, 1948, Zionist forces conquored Burayr, northeast of Gaza. “The 9th Battalion troops killed a large number of villagers, apparently executing dozens of army-age males. They appear also to have raped and murdered a teenage girl.” (Morris, The Birth, p.258, citing a Zionist memoir & Zionist oral history). 7. On 13 May, 1948, Zionist forces attacked Abu Shusha. During the operation, “One Haganah soldier twice attempted to rape a 20-year-old woman prisoner.” (Morris, The Birth, p. 257, citing a Haganah archival report). 8. On May 1, 1948, Palmach fighters shot several Palestinians in ‘Ein Zeitun (in the Upper Galilee). According to a May 4, 1948 British report of the attack, “women had been raped” in the village. Morris, The Birth, p.289. 9. May 1948: In Tantura, where Israeli soldiers also carried out a massacre, here is how Najiah Ayyub described what happened: 'I saw that the troops who encircled us tried to touch the women but were rejected by them When they saw that the women would not surrender, they stopped. When we were on the beach, they took two women and tried to undress them, claiming they had to search the bodies.” (Pappe, The Ethnic Cleansing, p.211) 10. In the summer of 1948, Palmach militiamen “raped and murdered” four village women from the inhabitants of the Shi‘ite village of Hunin, in the Galilee Panhandle (Morris, The Birth, p.249 & 461, citing a Haganah report) 11. July 1948: ”Reports had been received about Jewish behavior in previously occupied areas …. incidents of rape about which they had heard terrible stories from Acre and Ramla.” (Morris, 1948: A History, p.281). 12. In Oct. 1948, Zionist forces carried a massacre in Dawayima, executing a few hundred Palestinians. They were “‘lined up and killed by machinegun fire,” according to Morris. A Zionist report revealed: “one soldier boasted that he had raped a woman and then shot her.” (Morris, The Birth, p.470, citing a Kibbutz Meuhad Archives report). Pappe adds: “the Jewish soldiers who took part in the massacre also reported horrific scenes: babies whose skulls were cracked open, women raped or burned alive in houses, and men stabbed to death.” (Pappe, The Ethnic Cleansing, p.196). 13. On December 9, 1948, a Red Cross report tells of two Jewish soldiers who burst into the house of al-Hajj Suleiman Daud, who had been expelled with his family to Shaqara. The soldiers hit his wife and kidnapped his 18-year-old daughter. 17 days later the father was able to get hold of an Israeli lieutenant, to whom he protested. The abusers appeared to belong to Brigade Seven. Pappe writes: “It is impossible to know what exactly happened in those 17 days before the girl was set free; the worst may be presumed." (Pappe, The Ethnic Cleansing, p.209). 14. In February 1949, after Israel agreed to allow civilians to remain in the Palestinian towns of Faluja (what was transformed into Kiryat Gat), it quickly reneged on its promise, mounting a campaign of low-key violence and psychological warfare designed to intimidate the inhabitants into flight. The UN Mediator, Ralph Bunche, quoting UN observers reported that ‘Arab civilians . . . at Al Faluja have been beaten and robbed by Israeli soldiers and . . . there have been some cases of attempted rape.” (Morris, The Birth, p.522) 15. Israeli forces attacked Safsaf, a Palestinian village near Safed, on Nov 6, 1948. A Zionist archival report documents: “ ‘52 adult males’ tied together and dropped into a well and of three cases of rape, including of a 14-year-old girl. Nahmani also mentions several cases of rape and ‘a number of dead women’.” Arab oral testimony from the early 1970s, as recorded by Nazzal (Exodus, 93–95), more or less corroborates the contemporaneous Jewish documentation. According to Nazzal, the soldiers raped four women and blindfolded and executed ‘about 70’ men.” Morris, The Birth, p.481). Survivors recall how four women and a girl were raped in front of the other villagers and how one pregnant woman was bayoneted.” (Pappe, The Ethnic Cleansing, p.184) On 12 August 1949, Israeli soldiers based in Kibbutz Nirim on the northern edge of today's Gaza Strip, captured a 12-year-old Palestinian girl and locked her up for the night in their military base near the kibbutz. For the next few days she became the platoon's sex slave as the soldiers shaved her head, gang- raped her and in the end murdered her. Ben-Gurion lists this rape too in his diary but it was censored out by his editors. On 29 October 2003, the Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz publicised the story based on the testimonies of the rapists: 22 soldiers had taken part in the barbaric torture and execution of the girl.” (Pappe, The Ethnic Cleansing, p.210) Summary Morris concludes: “There were also several dozen cases of rape, a crime viewed with particular horror in Arab and Muslim societies.” (Morris, The Birth, p.592) Morris adds: “About a dozen cases—in Jaffa, Acre, and so on—are reported in the available contemporary documentation and, given Arab diffidence about reporting such incidents and the (understandable) silence of the perpetrators, and IDFA censorship of many documents, more, and perhaps many more, cases probably occurred.” (Morris, 1948: A History, p.406). Pappe writes: “David Ben-Gurion seems to have been informed about each [rape] case and entered them into his diary. Every few days he has a sub-section: 'Rape Cases'. One of these records the incident Chizik had reported to him: 'a case in Acre where soldiers wanted to rape a girl. They killed the father and wounded the mother, and the officers covered for them. At least one soldier raped the girl.' (Pappe, The Ethnic Cleansing, p.209). Sources: Benny Morris, The birth of the Palestinian refugee problem, 1947-1949 archive.org/details/birtho… Ilan Pappé, The ethnic cleansing of Palestine archive.org/details/ethnic… Benny Morris, 1948: History of the First Arab-Israeli War archive.org/details/1948hi…
The Nakba is not a historical event, it's an ongoing process, one that began in the late 19th century and continues to the present day. I've been working on series of articles on this ongoing process: 1880-1914: "The Origins of the Ethnic Cleansing of the Palestinians, 1880s-1914" palestinenexus.com/articles/origi… 1920-1948: "The Origins of the Ethnic Cleansing of the Palestinians, 1920-1947" palestinenexus.com/articles/origi… 1948: Walid Khalidi, Ilan Pappe, Benny Morris & many others have written books on Israel's expulsion of 750,000 Palestinians during the 1948 War. This has become known as "The Nakba." 1949-1967: "Israel’s Ethnic Cleansing of the Palestinians, 1949-1965" palestinenexus.com/articles/israe… 1967: Nur Masalha & Tom Segev have written books on Israel's expulsion of between 250,000-300,000 Palestinians from Gaza and the West Bank from June 1967-December 1967. 1968-1993: "Israel's Ethnic Cleansing of the Palestinians, 1968-1993" palestinenexus.com/articles/israe… 1993-2023: Israel continued to force Palestinians out of Jerusalem, Gaza and the West Bank through many of the same policies discussed in the previous piece. Subscribe to PalestineNexus.com newsletter to get this piece once its out. 2023- present: Israel’s ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians, October 7, 2023 - July 2025" palestinenexus.com/articles/ethni…
HE BLUNTLY ADMITS IT! Israeli PM Netanyahu announces violating the ceasefire deal by controlling more than the agreed upon area for Phase 1 and the occupation of Gaza: “We did not leave Gaza, today we control 60% of Gaza, and tomorrow…well, we will see.”
No IDF soldier has ever raped any Palestinian. Period. End of story. And if you think a dog can rape a person, you’re different level ignorant. The entire blood libel of sexual violence by the IDF is the mother of all projections. Like many other things, want to know what Israel’s enemies are guilty of? Look what they accuse Israel of. Full stop. It never happened and never will. - The end
Israeli are now doing a right to rape rally at the new york times. They came out after nyt nick Kristof wrote a piece about how israelis are using rape of Palestinians men, women and children as a weapon of war. which has been well documented
Of 59 Palestinian journalists detained by Israel during the "war" and later released - meaning that even Israel concluded they were civilians -, 56 told CPJ they were beaten, 17 sexually abused, and 2 reported being raped. The latter two figures will be considerable underreports, because of "honor culture" in Palestine, but already attest to widespread sexual abuse and rape in Israeli dungeons. Realistically, and taking into account underreporting, we are probably talking about the large majority of Palestinian detainees being sexually abused by the IDF, and a very large raw number of rape victims as well.
Israeli terrorist youth attack Palestinian shopkeepers in Old Jerusalem during Israel's so-called "Jerusalem Day" celebrations, while singing the infamous Judeo-Nazi revenge anthem "Remember Me"
Today we celebrate three historic milestones: the day on the English calendar when David Ben Gurion declared Israel’s independence, the 8th anniversary of @POTUS Trump’s courageous establishment of the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem, and Yom Yerushalayim — the liberation and reunification of Israel’s indigenous and indivisible capital under Israeli sovereignty. Happy Jerusalem Day!
Amazing coincidence that before Oct. 7 virtually nobody on Earth was reading "Zionism as settler colonialism" Wikipedia page, and then literally on the day of the massacre thousands suddenly developed a spontaneous grassroots interest in this obscure postcolonial framing terminology. Totally organic. Absolutely nothing to see here.
