Category Archives: Nakba

Intense video challenges Catalan and Spanish collaboration with the Israeli occupation

Posted on May 17, 2013 by Adam Horowitz

A video that is part of a campaign to pressure the Catalan and Spanish governments to end military and security cooperation with Israel.

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Exile and the Prophetic: Joseph Massad strikes again

Posted on May 17, 2013 by Marc H. Ellis

Joseph Massad’s contribution to the 65th anniversary of the Nakba, published on Al Jazeera’s website, is called “The Last of the Semites.” The subtitle is telling: “It is Israel’s claims that it represents and speaks for all Jews that are the most anti-Semitic claims of all.”

Posted in Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Nakba, US Politics | 13 Comments

Clashes break out across the West Bank as Palestinians mark the Nakba

Posted on May 16, 2013 by Allison Deger

Clashes broke out across the West Bank, including in East Jerusalem, yesterday as Palestinians marked the 65th anniversary of the Nakba. Allison Deger reports from Ofer prison where protesters faced off with Israeli soldiers.

Posted in Activism, Israel/Palestine, Nakba, Occupation, On the ground reports, Reports/Video | 29 Comments

In 1948 the Nakba was carried out by the military, in 2013 it continues in courtrooms

Posted on May 15, 2013 by Adam Horowitz

Moriel Rothman uses the Shamasneh family eviction case in Sheikh Jarrah as an example of how the dispossession of the Palestinian people continues today, albeit in less dramatic fashion than 65 years ago.

Posted in Activism, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Nakba, Occupation, Settlers/Colonists | 3 Comments

Exile and the Prophetic: The Nakba marches on

Posted on May 15, 2013 by Marc H. Ellis

Have you noticed that over the years, the celebration of Israel by Jews around the world which uses its own narrative of suffering, struggle and independence has diminished precipitously? Like it fell off a cliff.

Posted in Israel/Palestine, Nakba | 4 Comments

Uncompromising hope inspired by Ghassan Kanafani

Posted on May 15, 2013 by @WomanUnveiled

A teacher, journalist, and writer, Ghassan Kanafani’s wide reach of influence continues even today, especially in the terms of his literature. His works will forever have a seamless connection to the hope for freedom in Israel/Palestine, a goal that even Kanafani knew would become the responsibility of future Israeli and Palestinian generations.

Posted in Israel/Palestine, Nakba | 54 Comments

In photos: Gaza marches and rallies mark 65 years of the Nakba

Posted on May 15, 2013 by Joe Catron

A photo essay of a rally in Gaza to mark the 65th anniversary of the Nakba.

Posted in Activism, Gaza, Israel/Palestine, Nakba | 2 Comments

Without return, Palestine will not be free

Posted on May 15, 2013 by Abir Kopty

The meaning of liberation of Palestine is not a narrow one of ending a military regime in the West Bank and the military siege on Gaza. It is a broader one that includes decolonizing Palestine, and implementing the return. Supporting justice in Palestine would mean understanding that without return, Palestine won’t be free.

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On the 65th anniversary of the Nakba, at least 45% of the total Palestinian population worldwide are refugees

Posted on May 15, 2013 by Kate

MEMO: “According to PCBS, UNRWA records show that there were 5.3 million Palestinian refugees registered in mid-2012, constituting 45.7 per cent of the total Palestinian population worldwide. They were distributed as 59 per cent living in Jordan, Syria and Lebanon, 17 per cent in the West Bank, and 24 per cent in the Gaza Strip. About 29 per cent of registered Palestinian refugees live in 58 refugee camps, of which 10 are in Jordan, nine in Syria, 12 in Lebanon, 19 in the West Bank and eight in the Gaza Strip.”

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Infographic: An Ongoing Displacement – The forced exile of the Palestinians

Posted on May 15, 2013 by Adam Horowitz

Visualizing Palestine has released its latest infographic to coincide with the 65th anniversary of the Nakba.

Posted in Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Nakba, Occupation | 7 Comments

The Ongoing Nakba: The continuous forcible displacement of the Palestinian people

Posted on May 15, 2013 by Amjad Alqasis

May 15 marks the 65th anniversary of the Nakba. Although this commemoration remembers a moment in history, the Nabka is an ongoing process to displace and dispossess the Palestinian people of their land. As the Badil Center’s Amjad Alqasis writes, “The Nakba fundamentally altered Palestine. However the idea of forcible displacement of the indigenous Palestinian people did not end with the establishment of Israel in 1948, it rather started that year.”

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Im Tirtzu protests ‘nakba bullshit’ at Tel Aviv University

Posted on May 14, 2013 by Allison Deger

For the second time in two years, students at Tel Aviv University (TAU) commemorating the 1947-49 Palestinian expulsion and the destruction of villages were met with a counter-protest. At last year’s event over 1,000 amassed on campus, ending in clashes incited by members of Knesset. Again this year, the youth-based “new Zionist” group Im Tirtzu bottom-lined the demonstration, distributing a counter analysis pamphlet titled “Nakba Harta” or “Nakba-Bullshit”.

Posted in Activism, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Nakba, On the ground reports | Tagged | 36 Comments

Newseum honors newsman who ran guns for ethnic cleansing of Palestine

Posted on May 14, 2013 by Matthew Taylor

Newseum glorifies the Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by honoring Hank Greenspun’s gun-running to Israel in the 1940s.

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Chomsky endorses Albany, NY ‘Stop $30 Billion Military Aid to Israel’ billboard

Posted on May 8, 2013 by The Coalition to Stop $30 Billion

The Coalition to Stop $30 Billion to Israel is proud to announce yet another billboard has just gone up calling for an end to military aid to Israel–this time in Albany, New York.

Posted in Activism, BDS, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Nakba, Occupation, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | 10 Comments

It’s in Jerusalem’s DNA to be under ‘sole Jewish rule,’ mayor declares

Posted on May 7, 2013 by Annie Robbins

May 8 is Jerusalem Day, and Israelis are already celebrating by issuing declarations about how many Jewish babies Jerusalem Jews are producing and how many Palestinians are producing

Posted in Activism, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Nakba, Occupation, US Policy in the Middle East | 51 Comments

Exile and the Prophetic: Performing the Nakba

Posted on April 22, 2013 by Marc H. Ellis

The memorialization of victims may be a way of enabling powers in society to keep to their same path or even increase their ability to do so. These powers rarely think that the violence they memorialize will befall them or their loved ones. In any case, their affluence and status is too embedded in the system as it is. Why change?

Posted in Israel/Palestine, Nakba, US Politics | 1 Comment

Johannesburg demo against Israeli Independence Day ends in violence

Posted on April 19, 2013 by Annie Robbins

BDS South Africa says that several demonstrators against Israeli birthday celebration in Johannesburg were attacked by supporters of Israel, and one suffered a concussion

Posted in Activism, BDS, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Nakba, Occupation | 20 Comments

10 takeaways from the Boston University Right of Return conference

Posted on April 15, 2013 by Elisha Baskin

Insights, takeaways and powerful points made by the speakers and presenters at the Right of Return conference held April 6 & 7 2013 at Boston University Law School.

Posted in Activism, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Nakba, Occupation | 31 Comments

Not an empty sand dune: A Palestinian mansion in downtown Tel Aviv

Posted on April 15, 2013 by Allison Deger

The Tel Aviv neighborhoods of Shapira and Neve Sha’anan are the parts of town where cracks in the concrete do not get fixed and they’re never featured in guidebooks for the White City. Crumbling between the 1960s era homes and recently fabricated tin structures is a ghost of Israel’s past: a Palestinian mansion only a five-minute walk from the center of the city’s transport system. Dubbed the “Red House,” this structure serves as a reminder that Israel’s first city was not built from empty sand dunes.

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Boston conference to explore the realization of the Palestinian right of return

Posted on April 4, 2013 by Zena Ozeir and Jamil Sbitan

The first Palestinian Right of Return Conference to occur in the United States took place at Boston University in 2000. The conference, which featured prominent academics such as Noam Chomsky and the late Edward Said, was an effort by proponents of Palestinian rights to advocate for a mitigation of the historical tragedy that happened to the Palestinian people in 1948. Thirteen years later, Boston-area students, activists and academics have organized another conference at the same university because of this continuing catastrophe and the urgent need for a just political solution for Palestinian refugees.

Posted in Activism, Israel/Palestine, Nakba, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | 61 Comments

‘Do you know any Arabs in London?’ Israeli airport authorities grill British photojournalist before kicking him out

Posted on March 31, 2013 by Mark Kerrison
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Mark Kerrison was detained at Ben Gurion airport and then deported earlier this month for reasons that were never explained, though border officials seemed very concerned that he might talk to Palestinians. Here he relates his ordeal, including one comfort he had in jail: “My eyes were most drawn, though, to some words in small, inconspicuous lettering immediately above my head: ‘I don’t pretend to know night-time from day, but if I were your God I’d have something to say.’”

Posted in Activism, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Nakba, Occupation, On the ground reports | Tagged | 280 Comments

Freed but not free: Gaza welcomes detainee and former hunger striker Ayman Sharawna

Posted on March 26, 2013 by Joe Catron

The open air prison is being used by Israel as a prison: thus its freeing of Ayman Sharawna on condition that he be held in Gaza for ten years

Posted in Activism, Gaza, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Nakba, Occupation | 2 Comments

Un-erasing the Nakba: Palestinian identity in Israel since the first Intifada

Posted on March 13, 2013 by Manar Makhoul

Palestinian identity in Israel underwent many evolutionary transformations since 1948. Palestinian citizens of Israel had to adapt to a political system that aimed to erase them: an inherent and an integral component in Zionist thought. Palestinian citizens of Israel have dealt with their erasure in a variety of ways over the years and this article presents example of Palestinian un-erasure and identity since the outbreak of the first Intifada in 1987.

Posted in Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Nakba, On the ground reports | 9 Comments

South African groups launch ‘Israeli Apartheid Week’ at Jo’burg memorial to apartheid

Posted on March 10, 2013 by Annie Robbins

This week, South Africa will host the 9th international Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) campaign that takes places annually during February and March around the globe in over 250 cities

Posted in Activism, BDS, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Nakba, Occupation, US Policy in the Middle East | 15 Comments

Another Israeli-only highway set to cut through East Jerusalem neighborhood brings protest

Posted on March 7, 2013 by Annie Robbins

Are American media saying anything about the land confiscation that is a way of life for Palestinians living under occupation?

Posted in Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Nakba, Occupation, Settlers/Colonists | Tagged | 18 Comments