Partition Plan

Abba Hillel Silver: The American Zionist leader who brought Israel into being

We have the state, but could it have been different if Abba Hillel Silver’s ideas had been embraced?

MAY 8, 1947. Abba Hillel Silver (at table, 4th L) – Zionist Organization of America president and Jewish Agency for Palestine representative – advocates for the Jewish National Home in Palestine.
People rally to mark the one year anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada on February 24, 2023.

Jewish group urges halt to ‘Nakba’ exhibit at Canadian Museum of Human Rights

 YITZHAK TREISTER

The New Zealand-Zionist connection: How one family helped shape Israel’s birth

The UN vote, taking place in the main gallery of the Queens Museum

Israeli society must remember its partnership with Diaspora Jewry - opinion


100 years since San Remo, when Israel became a sovereignty

In San Remo, the League of Nations decided to turn much of the former Ottoman Empire into new nation-states: Syria, Iraq, Lebanon and Jordan all emerged from this process, along with Israel.

A MILITARY parade for Independence Day held in Israel during the early 1970s.

Think about it: Poland and Israel: National narratives and myths

Though I am totally opposed to equating the Holocaust with the Nakba, Israel is no different from Poland in its approach to its own national narrative and national myths.

Polish and Israeli flags at a march next to Auschwitz in April

End ‘occupation’

The term “occupation” simply does not do justice to Israel’s role on the West Bank.

A student supporting Hamas holds a Palestinian flag in a rally during an election campaign for the student council at the Birzeit University in the West Bank city of Ramallah April 26, 2016

Newly-discovered note reveals Truman's fight for Israel recognition

Simon Wiesenthal Center rabbi: “It’s really a tally of a White House effort to get votes for a Jewish homeland.”

Abba Eban and prime minister David Ben-Gurion visiting US president Harry Truman, 1951.

Did the partition resolution change history?

In other words, the day which could have signaled the dawn of a Palestinian Arab state 70 years ago is now misrepresented as the start of an Israeli campaign of ethnic cleansing.

Jews celebrate in the streets of Tel Aviv moments after the United Nations voted on November 29, 1947, to partition Palestine which paved the way for the creation of the State of Israel on May 15, 1948.

Support for Israel extends beyond Jewish world, ECI says

Pence: It is impossible not to see hands from heaven in 1947 partition vote.

US Vice President Mike Pence waves to the crowd at a UN event in New York marking 70 years since the Partition Plan was approved

Encountering peace: November 29 - a national holiday

The Declaration of Independence is a document that outlines why the creation of the State of Israel was legitimate.

Jews celebrate in the streets of Tel Aviv moments after the United Nations voted on November 29, 1947, to partition Palestine which paved the way for the creation of the State of Israel on May 15, 1948.

A watershed moment in history

Recalling the UN Partition Plan on its 70th anniversary

Jews celebrate in the streets of Tel Aviv moments after the United Nations voted on November 29, 1947, to partition Palestine which paved the way for the creation of the State of Israel on May 15, 1948.

Partition plan approved by more than 2/3; 33 to 13

It has been 70 years since the historic UN vote.

This Week in History: The UN Partition Plan announced

Uruguayan son of key proponent of partition plan: ‘My father would have been proud’

Daniel Rodriguez Otezia is visiting Israel on a 10-day trip to mark the 70th anniversary of the UN's passing of the partition plan.

JEWS CELEBRATING the Partition Plan in 1947 in Jerusalem. ‘The UN General Assembly’s 1947 Partition Plan, which triggered the war, similarly injected pathological perspectives into our national identity,’ writes the author