The aim of The Returns of Zionism is clear, and Piterberg does not hide it: the total de-legitimization of the Jewish nation-state founded in Palestine ... of Mandate-era Jewish scholars in Jerusalem, ...

Director of Harvard’s Center for Jewish Studies Derek Penslar gave this year’s Hannah A. Quint Lecture in Jewish Studies, ...

Thence went he to Cairo, the capi-tal, where he entered a special railway car provided by the Palestine Government and was whisked off across the Suez Canal to Palestine, land of two religions ...

French President Emmanuel Macron’s announcement that he would formally recognise the State of Palestine by June 2025 transcends mere diplomatic posturing. It represents a calculated move in an ...

Tokyo’s Chiyoda Ward has reproduced a rare map from 1947 that shows how the postwar U.S. occupation of Japan had dominated and sprawled across the places locals walk past every day. It proved to ...

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This shift follows a mandate from the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), which has required mobile carriers to display geospatial coverage maps online. Currently, all major telecom ...

But in 1947, when the UN split the mandate of Palestine, its population was largely Arab. The UN gave 56% of the whole mandate area to the new Jewish state, and 43%, including the West Bank ...

With the British victory over the Ottoman Empire, the area soon fell under British control in the form of the League of Nations’ Mandate for Palestine ... aspirations. In 1947, on the eve ...

But the British would have none of it. London announced that it still intended to surrender its Palestine mandate on May 15, withdraw its last troops by Aug. i. Snapped a Colonial Office spokesman ...