An Israeli Daughter Confronts Her Father’s Role In The Tantura Massacre From 1948 - with Yael

An Israeli Daughter Confronts Her Father’s Role In The Tantura Massacre From 1948 - with Yael

August 14, 2025

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What happens when the daughter of an Israeli soldier involved in one of Palestine’s most harrowing massacres decides to speak out?

Yael is a psychologist living in self-imposed exile in London. Her journey is unlike any other: from growing up inside the heart of Israeli society, to experiencing a profound break with Zionist ideology.

A shift that forced her to confront both national myths and family history.

The Tantura massacre of 1948 remains a wound in Palestinian memory and a flashpoint of denial in Israel. In this conversation, Yael reveals:

Her father’s role in the events at Tantura.

How her own beliefs unraveled
The personal cost of breaking silence inside Israeli society
Why confronting the past is essential for any honest future
Along the way, we connect her testimony to:
Historian Prof. Ilan Pappé’s work on Tantura
The voices of Palestinian survivors Faizeh Al-Yahya and Dr. Adnan
This is not an easy conversation - but it cuts through decades of denial to reach uncomfortable truths.

Time Stamps:

00:00 Intro
04:30 Who is Yael
11:30 The big lie
15:00 A land without people
20:20 The great escape
23:00 Tantura
47:00 October 7
52:00 Could Israel implode

Along the way, we connect her testimony to historian Ilan Pappé’s work on Tantura, and the voices of Palestinian survivors Faizeh Al-Yahya and Dr. Adnan. This is not an easy conversation, but it cuts through decades of denial to reach uncomfortable truths.

The Tantura Massacre

The Tantura massacre refers to the killing of Palestinian civilians by Israeli forces in May 1948, during the Nakba (the mass displacement of Palestinians that accompanied the creation of the State of Israel).

https://portalcioranbr.wordpress.com/2025/08/14/yael-israeli-daughter-confronts-father-role-tantura-massacre/

On the Massacre in Tantura:
https://www.zochrot.org/testimonies/view/56414/en?On_the_Massacre_in_Tantura_

Forensic Architecture Tantura:
https://forensic-architecture.org/investigation/executions-and-mass-graves-in-tantura-23-may-1948

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