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Holocaust and Holodomor (Origins of Anti Semitism)

By Haitham Sabbah • May 24th, 2009 • Category: Biography, Features, Haitham's Choice, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Religion

By Nicholas Lysson
1. ROLE OF JEWS IN UKRAINIAN FAMINE
One might think the worst holocaust deniers—at least the only ones who command serious attention—are those who insist the Nazi holocaust, as it involved the Jews only, was without parallel.

Guenter Lewy argues for example in The Nazi Persecution of the Gypsies (Oxford University Press, 2000) that while the Gypsies [...]

Oct. 29th in history: Massacres in Palestine

By Haitham Sabbah • Oct 29th, 2008 • Category: Features, Haitham's Choice, Israel, Newswire, Palestine

Today in history is another black day in the Palestinian history.

1. On October 29, 1948, when Israeli brigades captured the village of Safsaf. The known details of the massacre come to us via several contemporary second-hand Zionist reports and via Arab oral history. Yosef Nachmani, a senior officer in the Haganah (and later the director [...]

Jewish Scholar – 'Jewish People' Were Invented

By Guest Post • Oct 10th, 2008 • Category: Features, Haitham's Choice, Israel, Newswire, Palestine

Israeli Bestseller Breaks National Taboo
by Jonathan Cook
No one is more surprised than Shlomo Sand that his latest academic work has spent 19 weeks on Israel's bestseller list – and that success has come to the history professor despite his book challenging Israel's biggest taboo.
Dr. Sand argues that the idea of a [...]