On the 74th annual Nakba Day, Palestine Action targeted and shut down Elbit Systems’s flagship premises in Bristol, commemorating Nakba Day. If the fact of life for Palestinians under Israeli apartheid is that of ongoing dispossession and death, then our resistance too must be ongoing. We won’t stop till the Nakba does.
Rep. Rashida Tlaib has introduced a historic resolution acknowledging the Nakba, which calls on the U.S. government to officially recognize the event and honor the rights of Palestinian refugees.
A prominent Palestinian leader in Jenin and the brother of political prisoner Zakaria Zubeidi, succumbed to wounds on Sunday after he was shot by Israeli forces over the weekend.
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has ruled that “Product of Israel” labels affixed to wines produced in Israel’s illegal West Bank settlements violate Canadian consumer protection law.
These words you’re about to read are one year old. And yet every time I read them I relive them again. I wrote this article as a reflection of the most horrific night that my family and I witnessed during the last Israeli war against Gaza in May 2021.
Shireen Abu Akleh’s killing exemplifies the inextricable tangling of witness and attempted erasure—of martyrdom in the wholest sense—in occupied Palestine.
The truth is, after 74 years Palestinians have never been more united. We will restore our country, we will restore our homes. We will rebuild them, even more beautifully than ever.
On Wednesday, Shireen Abu Akleh, a venerable Palestinian journalist, was shot dead by Israeli forces while covering a raid in the Jenin refugee camp. As usual, Israel denies that it is responsible for the killing, but eyewitness accounts and B’Tselem’s investigation refute Israel’s denials.
The “voice of Palestine” can be gunned down, but never silenced. 74 years on, it’s well past time for the world to really listen.
Zionism has always used sexual violence as a primary tool to eliminate indigenous Palestinians, and maintain the Israeli settler-colonial regime.