The above video is from an innovative new project from the Institute for Middle East Understanding called #Nakbasurvivor. The project encourages Palestinians to tell their family’s story of the Nakba over twitter or using short video clips. Here’s another one:
You can view all the videos on the #Nakbasurvivor website and follow the conversation on twitter here. You can also submit your own video telling your family’s story of the Nakba, using a webcam, cell phone video or flip cam, here.
This project helps demonstrate some of the revolutionary potential of the internet to inform and subvert the mainstream discourse on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. While even mentioning to Nakba was considered controversial just years ago, today the Palestinian experience of 1948 it has become a required part of any discussion of the founding of the state of Israel. This is in part because of the emotional, horrifying and inspiring testimonies given in these videos. They are a record that cannot be dismissed.
