Tel Aviv’s Manshiya Roots: The Palestinian Neighbourhood Destroyed in 1948
April 25, 2026In this haunting report independent journalist and activist @the.andrey.x stands amidst the remnants of what was once a thriving Palestinian community to expose the foundational lie of the modern state. He is showing us the physical ruins of Manshiya a vibrant Palestinian neighborhood that was systematically wiped off the map by Zionist militants in 1948. He is forcing us to look at the ground beneath the luxury towers of Tel Aviv and see the truth that has been buried for over seventy five years.
WOW. Tel Aviv was not built on a wasteland. It was built directly on top of the homes the lives and the history of Palestinians who were ethnically cleansed from their land.
The arrogance of this erasure is staggering. They destroyed the architecture they renamed the streets and they tried to rewrite the history books to make the world forget that Manshiya ever existed. But the stones do not lie. Every time a new foundation is dug the evidence of this crime against humanity resurfaces.
How can there be peace without truth? How can there be justice when the very ground you stand on is stolen property? We must stop accepting the sanitized version of history fed to us by the oppressors and start listening to the voices on the ground who are documenting the reality of the Nakba that never ended.
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English Script:
Andrey x: These are pieces of a destroyed world, relics of an ethnic cleansing that happened where I stand right now. This used to be the Palestinian neighborhood of Manshiya in Jaffa, and in 1948 it was destroyed, leveled completely. Everybody from there was expelled. And now they and their descendants are not allowed to come back. And in the ruins of Manshiya, Tel Aviv was built. Those skyscrapers behind me. All right. Now, where Palestinians used to live, I lived in Tel Aviv for two years, and I did not know about this until I spoke to some friends from Jaffa. There are no memorial plaques. This is not taught. This is one of the last couple of houses, Palestinian buildings still standing here. But it’s not a museum dedicated to Nakba or to Manshiya. It’s a museum dedicated to Etzal, a Jewish terrorist organization responsible for countless deaths of Palestinian civilians. And the beach is absolutely covered in these pieces of Palestinian houses that were destroyed in 1948.
