The Great Book Robbery

New Palestine films to look out for (and others to watch online)

Submitted by Maureen Clare Murphy on Tue, 01/22/2013 - 21:05
Sophomore features by Cherien Dabis and Annemarie Jacir receive critical praise; recent documentaries now touring or available online.

Watch: The Great Book Robbery, Israel's 1948 looting of Palestine's cultural heritage

Submitted by Ali Abunimah on Sun, 05/13/2012 - 16:30

Watch a film that tells the story of Israel’s systematic looting of tens of thousands of books and other cultural treasures during the Nakba, the 1948 expulsion of the Palestinian people.

Israel's war on Palestinian culture

Submitted by Maureen Clare Murphy on Mon, 10/24/2011 - 20:31
In a new article made available today by the journal Jerusalem Quarterly, activist and The Electronic Intifada contributor Hannah Mermelstein discusses a lesser known part of the ethnic cleansing of Palestine — the attempted annihilation of the Palestinian nation through cultural theft and destruction.

The great book robbery of 1948

Arwa Aburawa
9 November 2010

A new documentary reveals a hidden chapter in the history of the Nakba — the Palestinian expulsion and flight at the hands of Zionist militias as Israel was established in 1948 — which saw the systematic looting of more than 60,000 Palestinian books by Israeli forces and the attempted destruction of Palestinian culture.

NY Times' Jerusalem property makes it protagonist in Palestine conflict

Ali Abunimah
2 March 2010

The New York Times’ Jerusalem bureau chief lives on property Israel seized from Palestinian refugees forced to leave their homes during the Nakba in 1948. EI’s Ali Abunimah reveals for the first time details of The Times’ acquisition and use of this property and the story of the Palestinian family whose home it was. What are the implications for its reporting of a case that places the “newspaper of record” at the heart of the Palestine conflict?
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