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“Palestine 1936” spotted at Frankfurt Book Fair
Frankfurter Buchmesse is the world’s largest and oldest (500 years!) book festival...
Nov 17, 2022


The Meaning of Israel’s First Religious Prime Minister (FP)
One “first” of the new government may be remembered as more historic than all the others: Israel will have its first prime minister who...
Jun 7, 2021


The 1921 Jaffa riots, 100 years on: Mandate Palestine’s First Mass-Casualty Attack
It was, for the Zionist movement, a turning point in its perception of the “Arab question” and its own relation to armed force and...
May 1, 2021


‘A dangerous people to quarrel with’: Lloyd George’s Testimony to the Peel Commission Revealed
In Fathom, I unearth the secret 1937 testimony given by David Lloyd George, who had been British prime minister during the 1917 Balfour...
Jul 1, 2020
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