Falastin (1911-1947): A Written Record that Destroys Zionism’s Biggest Lie

June 12, 2025 in News, Video by RBN Staff

 

 

 

Since its founding in 1911, the newspaper Falastin gave voice to Palestinian nationalism and identity. It documented the struggle for a homeland as it unfolded—exposing, page by page, the falsehood of Zionist claims denying Palestinian peoplehood.

Links and Sources:
The forgotten atrocities: Britain’s history of abuse in Palestine – BBC Newsnight:
• The forgotten atrocities: Britain’s histor…
Issam Nassar, “The ‘Nashashibi Press’ and the ‘Palestinian Awakening’: Jerusalem’s Falastin Newspaper and the Construction of National Identity, 1921–1931”
https://www.jstor.org/stable/4284335
Rashid Khalidi, Palestinian Identity: The Construction of Modern National Consciousness
https://www.cup.columbia.edu/book/pal
BBC Documentary – The Brutal End of British Rule in Palestine
https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p0g9k5
British Royal Proclamation, July 1920 (via UK National Archives)
https://discovery.nationalarchives.go
Anglo-French Declaration, November 1918 (via World Digital Library)
https://www.loc.gov/item/2021666486/
League of Nations Covenant, Article 22
https://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_cent