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Questions & answers
Overview
Are the settlements legal, and are they wise?
Did Jews steal the land?
How many people have died in Gaza, and how ma…
How much of the 1948 Palestinian exodus was f…
Is anti-Zionism antisemitism?
Is Israel an apartheid state?
Is Israel committing genocide in Gaza?
Was Gaza occupied when this war began?
Was Jerusalem ever the capital of any other s…
Was Palestine ever a country?
Was the pre-October 7 policy toward Hamas def…
What are Areas A, B and C?
What does "from the river to the sea" mean?
What should come next: two states, and who ru…
When was Israel established?
Where are Jews from?
Who started the wars?
Why are there still Palestinian refugee camps…
Who attacked first (wars)
Overview
Who attacked first after the UN partition vot…
Who attacked first before Israel even existed?
Who attacked first in the 1948 war?
Who attacked first in the 1956 Suez war?
Who attacked first in the 1982 Lebanon war?
Who attacked first in the 2006 Lebanon war?
Who attacked first in the Gaza wars?
Who attacked first in the Israel-Iran war?
Who attacked first in the Six-Day War?
Who attacked first in the Yom Kippur War?
Who attacked first on October 7?
Who attacked first on the Lebanon front in 20…
Who started the intifadas?
Who started the War of Attrition?
Cities & places
Overview
How old is Beersheba?
How old is Jaffa, and whose city is it?
Is Hebron a Jewish city or a Palestinian city?
Is Nazareth an Arab city or a Jewish one?
Was Gaza ever a Jewish city?
What is Bethlehem's history, before and after…
What is Safed known for?
What was Acre called through history?
What was Jerusalem called before al-Quds?
What was Lod before it was Lydda?
What was Nablus called before it was Nablus?
When was Tel Aviv founded?
Which city did Arabs actually found?
Why does Tiberias matter to Jewish history?
Claims, checked
Overview
Are almost all the Palestinians killed in Gaz…
Are Ashkenazi Jews descended from Khazar conv…
Are Black Americans the true Israelites and t…
Are Palestinians the direct descendants of th…
Are there five million Palestinian refugees w…
Can Arabs be antisemitic if they are Semites…
Did an Israeli shell kill a family on a Gaza…
Did Israel assassinate the journalist Shireen…
Did Israel bomb the al-Ahli Baptist Hospital…
Did Israel build an apartheid wall to grab la…
Did Israel create Hamas?
Did Israel deliberately attack the USS Libert…
Did Israel massacre hundreds of civilians in…
Did Israel massacre peace activists on the Ma…
Did Israel shell a UN school in Gaza and kill…
Did Jews control or run the Atlantic slave tr…
Do ultra-Orthodox Jews oppose Israel, proving…
Does Israel deliberately bomb hospitals?
Does Israel hold its own soldiers accountable…
Does Israel meet the legal definition of apar…
Does Israel persecute Christians and drive th…
Does Israel steal Palestinian water?
Has Israel been found guilty of genocide in G…
Has Israel occupied Gaza for decades?
Is Israel deliberately murdering journalists…
Is Israel deliberately starving Gaza?
Was Jerusalem always an Arab city and the Tem…
Was Jesus a Palestinian or a Jew?
Was the creation of Israel in 1948 ethnic cle…
Were the October 7 rapes and atrocities fabri…
What does 'from the river to the sea' actuall…
Myths & misconceptions
Overview
AIPAC is an all-powerful foreign lobby that b…
All Jews are white Europeans.
Hebrew is a fake language that Israel invente…
Israel is an apartheid state.
Jews and Arabs have always hated each other.
Jews are a single race.
Jews are colonizers in Palestine.
God promised it to them 3,000 years ago
Jews secretly control the banks, the media, a…
Jihad just means a peaceful inner struggle.
Judaism is just Christianity without Jesus.
People get paid $7,000 a post to defend Israe…
The anti-Israel surge on campus is a purely o…
The keffiyeh is Palestinian, and Jews who wea…
The Nazis invented antisemitism.
The Talmud commands Jews to hate and kill non…
Yiddish and Hebrew are the same language.
Holocaust denial, answered
Overview
Auschwitz used to say four million dead; now…
If six million really died, where did they go…
It all rests on survivor stories, and survivo…
It was wartime internment, no different from…
People died of typhus and starvation in the c…
The crematoria could never have burned that m…
The Leuchter Report scientifically proved the…
The Nazi confessions were tortured out of the…
The Red Cross only counted 271,000 dead in th…
The six million is a made-up, round number th…
There was no master plan, and Hitler himself…
There were no gas chambers. The whole thing i…
Media & Wikipedia bias
Overview
Asserted as Israel's guilt, in Wikipedia's ow…
Contested deaths, decided by the title
“Denial”, a category built for one side
Indigenous when it suits
Israel's existence itself, as an open question
One side's crimes are facts; the other's are…
Pre-debunked: the pro-Israel claim as “conspi…
Same role, opposite words
The accusation gets its own dedicated article
The alarm over antisemitism, reframed as a we…
The inconvenient qualifier, dropped
The Jewish story, softened
The mirror: where the Islamic record gets sof…
The terror label, buried at the bottom of the…
Whose bias gets flagged
Wikipedia, article by article
Overview
1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine
1948 Palestinian expulsion from Lydda and Ram…
2000 Camp David Summit
Act.IL
Ahmed Yassin
Al-Aqsa
Al-Shifa Hospital
Anti-Defamation League
Anti-Zionism
Antisemitism in Islam
Ariel Sharon
Axis of Resistance
Banu Qurayza
Casualties of the Gaza war
Casualties of the Israel–Hamas war
Colonialism
Council on American–Islamic Relations
Criticism of Israel
Deir Yassin massacre
Dhimmi
East Jerusalem
Fatah
Flour massacre
Francesca Albanese
From the river to the sea
Gaza genocide denial
Gaza Strip
Gaza Strip famine
Gaza War (2008–2009)
Genocide of indigenous peoples
Great March of Return
Hassan Nasrallah
Hezbollah
History of the Jews in Iraq
Holocaust denial
Holocaust inversion
Houthi movement
Human shields in the Israeli–Palestinian conf…
Ilan Pappé
Incitement to genocide
Irgun
Islam and antisemitism
Ismail Haniyeh
Israeli–Palestinian conflict
Israeli settlement
Jewish exodus from the Muslim world
Jewish supremacy
Jihad
Jizya
Joseph Massad
Judith Butler
Kahanism
Legitimacy of the State of Israel
Leila Khaled
List of genocides
Mahmoud Abbas
Marwan Barghouti
Middle East Media Research Institute
Ministry of Health (Gaza)
Nakba denial
New antisemitism
NGO Monitor
Nuseirat rescue and massacre
October 7 attacks
Palestine Liberation Organization
Palestinian genocide allegations
Palestinian Islamic Jihad
Palestinians
Pallywood
Pinkwashing (LGBTQ)
Plan Dalet
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
Qasem Soleimani
Rashida Tlaib
Richard A. Falk
Right to exist
Roger Waters
San Remo conference
Second Intifada
Settler colonialism
Sexual and gender-based violence in the Octob…
State of Palestine
Tantura massacre
The Electronic Intifada
War crimes in the Gaza war
Weaponization of antisemitism
Working Definition of Antisemitism
Yasser Arafat
Zionism as settler colonialism
Zionism, race and genetics
Zionist political violence
People
Overview
Ada Yonath
Adolf Eichmann
Amin al-Husseini
Amnon Shashua
Anwar Sadat
Chaim Weizmann
Dan Shechtman
Danny Gold
David Ben-Gurion
Dov Moran
Eli Beer
Eli Cohen
Eliezer Ben-Yehuda
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Gavriel Iddan
Golda Meir
Hannah Senesh
Joseph Trumpeldor
Menachem Begin
Mohammed Deif
Moshe Dayan
Natan Sharansky
Rafi Mehoudar
Simcha Blass
Theodor Herzl
Uri Levine
Yahya Sinwar
Yitzhak Rabin
Yoni Netanyahu
Ze'ev Jabotinsky
Documents
Overview
The Abraham Accords (2020)
The Balfour Declaration (1917)
The Camp David Accords (1978)
The Clinton Parameters (2000)
The Genocide Convention (1948)
The Hamas 2017 Document
The Hamas Covenant (1988)
The IHRA Working Definition of Antisemitism
The Israel-Jordan Peace Treaty (1994)
Israel's Declaration of Independence (1948)
The Khartoum Resolutions (1967)
The Mandate for Palestine (1922)
The Oslo Accords (1993-1995)
The Peel Commission Report (1937)
The PLO Charter (1968)
The San Remo Resolution (1920)
UN Resolution 181: the Partition Plan (1947)
UN Resolution 194 (1948)
UN Resolution 242 (1967)
UN Resolution 3379: Zionism is Racism (1975)
The White Paper of 1939
Organizations
Overview
AIPAC
Al Jazeera
Amnesty International
B'Tselem
Hamas
Human Rights Watch
The International Criminal Court
The International Court of Justice
The International Committee of the Red Cross
The IRGC and the Quds Force
Jewish Voice for Peace
The Mossad
The Muslim Brotherhood
Samidoun
Students for Justice in Palestine
The Six Designated NGOs
The UN Human Rights Council
UN Women
UNESCO
UNRWA
Glossary
Conflict & today
Overview
Agenda Item 7
Al-Aqsa Mosque
Anti-Zionism
Antisemitism
Astroturfing
BDS
Black Saturday
Blood libel
Dual loyalty
Fedayeen
Globalize the Intifada
Green Line
Hamas
Hasbara
Hezbollah
Holocaust inversion
Houthis
IHRA definition
Intifada
IRGC
Jewish deicide
Khazar myth
Khazars
Livingstone Formulation
Nakba
New antisemitism
Occupation, 1967 or 1948?
October 7
Oslo Accords (Areas A, B, C)
Pay for Slay
Pinkwashing
Pogrom
Right of Return
Self-hating Jew / “As-a-Jew”
Settlements
Settler-colonialism (the charge)
Settler, the settlements or all Israel?
Sumud
The Protocols of the Elders of Zion
Two-state / one-state
UNRWA
Waqf
Well poisoning (libel)
History & statehood
Overview
Babi Yar
Balfour Declaration
British Mandate
Did Jews only arrive in 1948?
Dome of the Rock
Einsatzgruppen
Grand Mufti (Amin al-Husseini)
Haganah
Herzl
IDF
Jewish indigeneity
King David Hotel Bombing
Knesset
Naksa
Partition Plan (UN 181)
Petah Tikva (the Moshavot)
Plan Dalet
Righteous Among the Nations
San Remo
Six-Day War
Sonderkommando
Temple Mount
The Farhud
The Final Solution
The Khartoum Resolution
The Leuchter Report
The Night Journey (Isra and Mi'raj)
The Peel Commission
The Status Quo (Holy Places)
The War of Attrition
UN Resolution 242
USS Liberty Incident
Wannsee Conference
Yad Vashem
Zionism
Hebrew & heritage
Overview
Aliyah
Am Yisrael
Am Yisrael Chai
Ashkenazi
Beta Israel
Chutzpah
Eretz Yisrael
Galut (Diaspora)
Gentile
Goy / Goyim
Kibbutz
Kinneret
Kippah (Yarmulke)
Klal Yisrael
Mensch
Mizrahi
Sabra
Sephardi
Shoah
Shoresh
Sudra
Yishuv
Zion
Texts & religion
Overview
Covenant (Brit)
Dead Sea Scrolls
Halacha
Kaddish & Yizkor
Kashrut (Kosher)
Kohen & Levi
Kol Nidre
Midrash
Mishnah
Mitzvah
Noahide Laws
Promised Land
Shabbat
Shema
Talmud
Tanakh
Ten Commandments
Ten Lost Tribes
Tikkun Olam
Torah
Twelve Tribes
Yom Kippur
Islamic texts
Overview
Banu Qurayza
Caliphate
Constitution of Medina
Dhimmi
Gharqad hadith
Hadith
Hudud
Isnad
Jihad
Jizya
Kafir
Khaybar
Kitman
Madhhab
Naskh (Abrogation)
Pact of ʿUmar
Quran
Sahih
Sharia
Sunnah
Sura / Ayah
Tafsir
Taqiyya
Tawriya
Ummah
Words & distinctions
Overview
Anti-Zionism vs Antisemitism
Ashkenazi, Sephardi, Mizrahi
Collective Punishment
Crisis Actor
Decolonization
Greater vs Lesser Jihad
Hamas vs the Palestinians
Hudna vs Peace
Islam, Muslim, Islamist
Jew, Israeli, Zionist
Judaism vs Zionism
Judaization
Mizrahi Jews
Nakba vs War of Independence
Occupied vs Disputed
Proportionality
Quran, Hadith, Sharia
Refugee vs Descendant
Resistance
Semite and Antisemitism
Settler
Settler-Colonialism
Shahid (Martyr)
Zionist Entity
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Mitzvah
Hebrew:
מִצְוָה
A
commandment
; by extension, a good deed. Tradition counts 613 in the Torah.