1,497 newspaper clippings about Palestinians
Printed in 583 American newspapers between 1799 and 2023. Not an argument about the history. The record of what American readers were handed at the time, with every clipping scanned, dated and named.
Nothing here was printed after 6 October 2023.
Four places to start
1939 to 2023
A newspaper editor jailed without a charge
Haifa, 1939. Sathij Nassar helped run an Arabic weekly. She was arrested and sentenced to three months, and the paper that reported it added one detail: her arrest had been kept quiet for a week. The same law is still in use.
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1898 to 2015
The day the comparison was first made
On 17 October 1944 the Baltimore Sun reported a rabbi telling a convention that anti-Zionism could be compared to antisemitism. For the fifty years before that, Jewish newspapers had argued about Zionism openly, by name.
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23 April 1948
One story, six papers, five different verbs
April 1948. About 70,000 Palestinians were driven out of Haifa. One news agency report went out that morning. Six American papers printed it, and each one chose a different word for what happened.
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1927 to 2023
Who did it, counted
Of the death headlines in this archive, most report a Palestinian killed with nobody doing the killing. Someone dies the way weather happens. The count is on the page, and so is every headline in it.
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