Questions tagged [palestine]
for questions about claims based in Palestine, or limited to Palestine.
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Did the Zionist paramilitary organization, Lehi, try to assassinate the US president Harry Truman with letter bombs?
A social media post I encountered stated that Lehi was supposedly the sender of letter bombs to the then-president Harry Truman and other high-ranking officers at the White House during Jewish ...
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Does the UN treat Palestinian refugees differently from other refugees?
The FDD makes the following claim...
The United Nations (UN) treats Palestinian refugees differently than
refugees from every other conflict or circumstance. Specifically,
UNRWA automatically ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 ...
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Is this footage of pro-Palestinian protesters in Algeria recent?
The Persian-language newspaper, Ettelat published a story a few days ago claiming the Algerian parliament has ratified a bill to allow the president to use military action against Israel. This appears ...
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Were some of the hostages taken by Hamas killed in cross-fire by Israeli forces?
In this widely watched interview with Middle East Eye, Yasmin Porat describes being kidnapped from a kibbutz by Hamas (translation provided by Middle East Eye):
Yasmin Porat: We shouted at that point ...
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Did Russian instructors help Hamas in the 2023 attacks against Israel?
Gulag.net, a Russian anti-establishment website, posted a video "Прикрывайте!Прикрывайте!" Среди нападавших на Израиль были русскоговорящие инструкторы. ЧВК Вагнер?, which translates to '&...
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Are the media headline claims, implying that Smotrich's Palestinian statement was false, justified?
A Google search (2023-03-22) for "Smotrich" occurring within the past week produces:
Bezalel Smotrich - Wikipedia
Top stories:
CNN - Israeli minister says there's 'no such thing as a ...
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Has Israel used banned weapons against the population of Palestine?
According to this graphic from the Facebook group zionistlies,
The Israeli army uses 3 internationally banned weapons in its military aggression against the unarmed civilian population of Palestine.
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Are Hamas' Qassam rockets not very destructive?
Recently there was this answer on Politics.SE, which quotes extensively from Norman Finkelstein's book, Gaza: An Inquest Into its Martyrdom. In particular, there was deep disagreement from this quote ...
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Do more Israelis die from peanut allergies than Palestinian conflict?
In his 2010 song 'Terrorist' the artist Lowkey asserts:
It seems nuts, how could there be such agony?
When more Israelis die from peanut allergies
In the context of the song, he seems to be claiming ...
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Did Ben Gurion say this about conquering Palestinian land?
I'm watching a video about the Israel/Palestine situation (supposedly from a reputable source), yet the video so far seem filled with inaccuracies and bias. For the record I'm not a member of either ...
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Were 700000 Arab Palestinians forced out of their homes by Zionists?
Foreign policy says:
In the course of the war that ensued, Israel implemented a policy of
ethnic cleansing. 700,000 Arab Palestinians were either forced from
their homes or fled out of fear of ...
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Did Haj Amin al-Husseini tell Hitler to exterminate the Jews?
Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu recently made the following claim:
“Hitler didn’t want to exterminate the Jews at the time, he wanted to expel the Jews. And Haj Amin al-Husseini went to Hitler ...
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Who fired the rocket that hit al-Shifa Hospital and playground in Gaza on July 28, 2014?
There are conflicting claims of who was responsible for a rocket attack on an outpatient clinic at the al-Shifa hospital and a nearby playground in Gaza on July 28, 2014
The Israeli Defence Force ...
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Does this video show a sniper shooting a Palestinian?
In this troubling [not suitable for all audiences] video, you see a young man being shot.
There were many claims on Reddit that it was fake, and then claims that it was real.
Is there a way to know ...
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