Partition Plan

Israeli society must remember its partnership with Diaspora Jewry - opinion

The Diaspora had a crucial role in our rebirth – both immigrants and those who remained abroad.

The UN vote, taking place in the main gallery of the Queens Museum
 IDF SOLDIERS stand guard while Palestinians and left-wing activists protest near the Jewish settlement of Elon Moreh, east of Nablus, in 2022

Labeling Jews as 'settler-colonialists' flips the truth - opinion

The UN vote, taking place in the main gallery of the Queens Museum

Marking the anniversary of UN Partition Plan - editorial

 BEIRUT’S ACHRAFIEH Quarter, where Christians form the majority.

Voices from the Arab press: Partition Lebanon as a solution to Hezbollah


November 29: Anti-Israel clichés and the 1947 UN vote - analysis

What matters today is that every year on November 29, one of the latest in vogue narratives about 1947 and Israel’s creation is that it was a “settler colonial” enterprise.

 JEWS CELEBRATE in the streets of Tel Aviv moments after the United Nations voted on November 29, 1947 to partition Palestine into two states.

On This Day: 75 years since UN vote to turn Palestine into Jewish, Arab states

In later years, the date would also become known as the annual International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People.

 JEWS CELEBRATE in the streets of Tel Aviv moments after the United Nations voted on November 29, 1947 to partition Palestine into two states.

Did Resolution 181 create the State of Israel? - opinion

Israel’s true legal foundation can be traced to the Balfour Declaration and the international documents that it was incorporated into and that are still in effect today with respect to the West Bank.

 A PALESTINIAN PROTEST, with the participation of the grand mufti of Jerusalem, outside the British Consulate General in east Jerusalem on November 2, the anniversary of the Balfour Declaration.

Brazilian diplomat played a crucial role in Israel's creation - opinion

Oswaldo Aranha supported and steadily negotiated to reach a majority in favor of the 1947 resolution that partitioned the British Mandate of Palestine.

Brazilian diplomat Oswaldo Aranha was highly instrumental in the UN General Assembly’s approval of the partition of Palestine.

Save the two-state solution, recognize Palestine, Abbas says

The UN annually marks Palestinian solidarity on the anniversary of the 1947 vote to partition territory under Resolution 181.

 Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas gestures during a joint press conference with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken (not pictured), in the West Bank city of Ramallah, May 25, 2021.

What really happened at the 1947 UN Palestine partition vote

A note about my father’s account of the night of the UN vote for Partition, November 29, 1947

This Week in History: The UN Partition Plan announced

Educational program established between The Jewish Agency, Truman Library

The program will work to create educational programs focused on strengthening the historic ties between Israel and the United States.

ISRAEL’S FIRST president Chaim Weizmann presents US president Harry Truman with a Torah in 1948.

100 years since San Remo, when Israel became a sovereignty

In San Remo, the League of Nations decided to turn much of the former Ottoman Empire into new nation-states: Syria, Iraq, Lebanon and Jordan all emerged from this process, along with Israel.

A MILITARY parade for Independence Day held in Israel during the early 1970s.

Think about it: Poland and Israel: National narratives and myths

Though I am totally opposed to equating the Holocaust with the Nakba, Israel is no different from Poland in its approach to its own national narrative and national myths.

Polish and Israeli flags at a march next to Auschwitz in April

End ‘occupation’

The term “occupation” simply does not do justice to Israel’s role on the West Bank.

A student supporting Hamas holds a Palestinian flag in a rally during an election campaign for the student council at the Birzeit University in the West Bank city of Ramallah April 26, 2016

Newly-discovered note reveals Truman's fight for Israel recognition

Simon Wiesenthal Center rabbi: “It’s really a tally of a White House effort to get votes for a Jewish homeland.”

Abba Eban and prime minister David Ben-Gurion visiting US president Harry Truman, 1951.