75 years later, the significance of the Deir Yassin massacre remains.
The Deir Yassin massacre, in which Zionist militias killed at least 107 Palestinians in 1948, has become a powerful symbol of Palestinian dispossession and a historical fact Israel must confront when retelling its national narrative. The massacre unleashed a cycle of violence and counterviolence that has been the pattern since, and it was followed by the mass flight of Arabs from their locales. The failure to recognize the reality of Israeli apartheid requires burying one's head deeper and deeper into the sand, according to Human Rights Watch.