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Tag: Ari Shavit

Grist for Israel’s defamers

On July 31, 2015September 16, 2026 By Martin Kramer

What do "Lydda" and "Censored Voices" have in common? Start with the number 70.

Netanyahu and Churchill: analogy and error

On March 8, 2015June 28, 2020 By Martin Kramer

Netanyahu, wannabe Churchill, should have stopped settlements just like Churchill liquidated the Empire. Right? Wrong.

Génocidaires of the Palmah

On February 24, 2015June 28, 2020 By Martin Kramer

Did the Palmah carry out a "Rwanda-style" atrocity in Lydda in 1948? The latest libel.

Lydda, 1948: They were there

On December 26, 2014June 28, 2020 By Martin Kramer

How do Israeli veterans of Lydda's conquest in 1948 take Ari Shavit's account? Not kindly.

From Lydda to Gaza

On July 21, 2014June 28, 2020 By Martin Kramer

Martin Kramer responds to Benny Morris on the Lydda "massacre," July 1948.

Departure from Lydda

On July 7, 2014 By Martin Kramer

Was there a master plan to expel Palestinians? Efraim Karsh thinks not, and there's additional evidence to support him.

Massacre at Lydda?

On July 1, 2014June 28, 2020 By Martin Kramer

Ari Shavit's bestseller describes an Israeli "massacre" in Lydda in 1948. Martin Kramer digs deeper.

Martin Kramer

I am a historian of the Middle East at Tel Aviv University, and research it at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy.

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