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Aug 22, 2026

Palestinian author Sabri Jiryis, witness to 1948 Nakba, subject of profile on Zionism foundations

Middle East Monitor profiles Palestinian author and researcher Sabri Jiryis, who witnessed the 1948 Nakba in Fassouta village in the Galilee at age 10 and was among 160,000 Palestinians who remained in the region.

Aug 22, 2026·1 source

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Top claims

▪Zionism's careful alliance with the British government after World War I eventually resulted in the Balfour Declaration of 1917.
▪Zionism as a political and social concept started in the late 1830s.
▪Several Zionist organisations were established to strengthen Zionist colonial plans, which would later play a major role in establishing colonial settlement expansion in Palestine.

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Displacement of Palestinians1 History & roots of the Israel–Gaza conflict1 Israel-Palestine Conflict1 Middle East history1 Palestinian governance1 Palestinian refugees1

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