Before 1948
This 1917 British document supported “a national home for the Jewish people” in Palestine
What is the Balfour Declaration?
This many European Jews were murdered during the Holocaust
How many is 6 million?
The Arabic word “Nakba” translates to this in English
What is catastrophe?
Approximately this many Palestinians were displaced during the Nakba
What is 700,000 (or 750,000)?
Palestinians commemorate Nakba Day on this date every year
What is May 15?
This Austrian journalist wrote Der Judenstaat in 1896 after covering the Dreyfus Affair
Who is Theodor Herzl?
This 1947 ship carried 4,500 Holocaust survivors to Palestine before being turned back by Britain
What is the Exodus?
This village was attacked by the Irgun and Lehi on April 9, 1948, sparking widespread Palestinian panic
What is Deir Yassin?
This UN agency was created in December 1949 specifically for Palestinian refugees
What is UNRWA?
This organization was founded in 1964 to represent Palestinians
What is the PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization)?
The Hebrew word for the waves of Jewish immigration to Palestine starting in the 1880s
What is aliyot?
Future Prime Minister of Israel who led the Irgun and bombed the King David Hotel in 1946
Who is Menachem Begin?
Future Israeli Prime Minister who commanded the Lydda and Ramle expulsions in July 1948
Who is Yitzhak Rabin?
This UN resolution from December 1948 established the right of return
What is Resolution 194?
The Arabic word for setback describing the Palestinian loss in the 1967 Six-Day War
What is the Naksa?
This 1936-1939 Palestinian uprising was crushed by 50,000 British troops, destroying Palestinian leadership
What is the Arab Revolt?
This UN resolution, passed November 29, 1947, divided Palestine into two states
What is Resolution 181 (or the Partition Plan)?
The total number of Palestinian villages destroyed during and after the Nakba
What is over 400?
This percent of Mandatory Palestine was controlled by Israel after the 1949 armistice
What is 78 percent?
This 1987-1993 Palestinian uprising was led largely by the second generation of Nakba refugees
What is the First Intifada?
Avi Shlaim called Palestine this, because Britain promised it to both Arabs and Jews
What is the twice-promised land?
Roughly this many Palestinians had already been displaced before the Arab armies entered the war on May 15, 1948
What is 300,000?
This March 1948 Haganah plan authorized the occupation or destruction of Arab villages
What is Plan Dalet?
These two Israeli historians take opposing views on whether Plan Dalet was deliberate ethnic cleansing
Who are Benny Morris and Ilan Pappe?
This 1993 agreement established the Palestinian Authority but failed to resolve the right of return
What are the Oslo Accords?