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Palestinian refugees 'making their way from Galilee in October-November 1948' (Fred Csasznik, copyright expired)

Pretending away the Nakba only perpetuates the conflict

When the Czechs prefer to keep silent and repress their history, it’s a problem, but it is not an imminent danger to the country. When Israelis prefer to pretend there was no ethnic cleaning here, it’s a wholly different question: the conflict won’t end unless Israel admits to the injustice it caused. A few weeks…

By Yossi Gurvitz February 12, 2013

Is Twitter jargon pushing English to resemble Hebrew?

As Twitter and text messaging push vowels out of English to economize on space, could the language end up looking more Semitic than Germanic? I’m used to seeing abbreviations on Twitter, Gchat, and SMS. But I was surprised recently when an editor closed an email with “Rgds.” The “s” on the end helped me guess that…

By Mya Guarnieri Jaradat June 20, 2012