The more significant fiction that persists is that modern Jews are, fantastically, the direct and only descendants of the ancient Hebrews. This claim is based on the Catholic Church’s historic ...

For the children and grandchildren of the 750,000 people expelled from their homes in 1948 from Palestine, the Nakba, or catastrophe in English, is simultaneously a moment of the past, the violent ...

The first generation after the 1948 war, who lived through the Nakba, have now passed, and their descendants have grown up under Israeli occupation or in refugee camps with minimal education ...

Rejecting Mr. Zangwill’s suggestion that there was a time when the Arabs could have been made to trek to some other territory, Dr. Rupin said, “Remember the Palestine Arabs are descendants of ...

When UNRWA began operations in 1950 it served 750,000 refugees and today it serves 5.9 million so-called “refugees.” Even though the majority of the ...

Ethnic cleansing of Palestine. ... Today, Palestinian refugees and their descendants number more than seven million. Many still languish in refugee camps in neighbouring Arab countries, ...

This also applies to "descendants of Palestine refugee males, including adopted children." As a result, the number of registered persons has risen from 750,000 in 1950 to almost six million today.

ON the occasion of my first visit to Palestine I was struck by the number of blue-eyed, fair-haired children whom I met with in the towns and villages, more especially in the mountainous parts of ...