Questions tagged [palestine]
for questions about claims based in Palestine, or limited to Palestine.
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Did Palestinians on social media decipher the "signals and gestures" that police used against protestors in Ferguson?
The Reverend Traci D. Blackmon stated the following in a recent interview for National Public Radio:
when the young people went to the street in Ferguson and encountered military tanks and snipers ...
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Was there an "understanding between King Abdullah and the Jewish Agency to partition Palestine between themselves"?
According to Avi Shlaim's "The Debate about 1948", p. 293
If Bevin was guilty of conspiring to unleash the Arab Legion, his target was not
the Jews but the Palestinians. The prospect of a ...
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Did Jamal Husseini say "The blood will flow like rivers in the Middle East"?
On page 50 of his 2008 book 1948: A History of the First Arab–Israeli War, Benny Morris wrote:
The Arab reaction was just as predictable: “The blood will flow like rivers in the Middle East,” ...
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Did UK NHS nurses mistreat a Jewish boy because they "supported Palestine"?
Claim: A 9 year old boy with blood disorder was mistreated at the Royal Manchester Children's Hospital (the way I interpreted the claim was that he was actually denied treatment and made to lie on the ...
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Were the entrails of the victims of the 2000 Ramallah lynching held aloft by mob members?
In the 2000 Ramallah lynching two Israeli reservists were killed and their bodies mutilated.
Warning: The images linked below are disturbing and not safe for work.
An image included in a 2020 Quora ...
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Did Primo Levi say "Everybody is somebody’s Jew. And today the Palestinians are the Jews of the Israelis"?
I first read the quote in "Butler Trouble: Zionism, Excommunication, and the Reception of Judith Butler's Work on Israel/Palestine"
"Everybody is somebody’s Jew. And today the ...
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Was 2023 already the 'deadliest year' for Palestinian children by October 6th?
The New Arab published a news article titled "2023 is 'deadliest year' for Palestinian children say human rights groups" on the 6th of October. Is this claim true?
In August, Human Rights ...
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Have dozens of Palestinian Authority officials committed terror attacks against Israelis "in the past few months" (2023-2024)?
A February 25 Fox News article has extensive quotes and paraphrases from an interview with Prof. Efraim Inbar, President of the Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security, who among other things ...
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Was there a study of Palestinian public opinion related to the impact of videos from Hamas' October 7th attack on Israel?
A recent Frontline investigation called "Israel's Second Front" includes an interview with political scientist Khalil Shikaki. Shortly after the 9:30 mark of the overall episode, Dr. Shikaki ...
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After Israel's invasion, are 90% (1.9 million) Gazans now displaced and homeless?
I came across this claim in this tweet that says, "90% of Palestinians in Gaza are now displaced and homeless, that's over 1.9 million people! ...". Searching for it online, the first result ...
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Is this quote/poem by Mahmoud Darwish? "if they ask you about Gaza.."
A quote about Gaza has become a meme on social media:
And if they ask you about Gaza, tell them that it has a martyr, a martyr helps him, a martyr takes pictures of him, a martyr bids him farewell, ...
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Did Stuart Seldowitz work as Deputy Director/Senior Political Officer in the US State Department's Office of Israel and Palestinian Affairs?
According to this New York Post article, former White House official Stuart Seldowitz said,
“If we killed 4,000 Palestinian kids, it wasn’t enough,” the bigot identified by internet sleuths as ...
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Does a study claim that there is a lack of organized rape by the Israeli Defence Forces for political motives?
A December 2007 article in Israel National News claims:
A research paper that won a Hebrew University teachers' committee prize finds that the lack of IDF rapes of Palestinian women is designed to ...
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In 2015, did the Israeli Defence Force execute an elderly Palestinian woman, Ghalia Abu Reida, after taking a picture with her?
[Warning: The links below contain distressing images of the result of violence.]
X/Twitter account @HoyPalestina posted a tweet on 15 November 2023, claiming:
In 2015, Israeli army spokesman Avichai ...
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Did Netanyahu express support of Hamas in 2019?
When discussing the ongoing Israel/Hamas war, the following quotes occasionally come up.
Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and ...
