Nakba survivors, activists, and Rashida Tlaib addressed an overflowing event to commemorate the Nakba despite Kevin McCarthy and pro-Israel groups’ attempts to cancel it. “Let the headlines read ‘McCarthy tries to erase Palestine but fails’,” Tlaib declared.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has blocked an educational event about the Nakba featuring Rashida Tlaib at the Capitol, saying he will honor Israel instead.
Understanding Zionism, which seeks to create a Jewish state through the displacement of Palestine’s indigenous population, is essential to understanding the last 75 years of the ongoing Nakba.
The only possible outcome of the recent Israeli airstrikes on residential sites in Gaza was a massacre, but Israel conducted them anyway. The delayed response from resistance factions might signal new resistance tactics.
A new report from the Committee to Protect Journalists shows the Israeli military has killed 20 journalists since 2001 and not one soldier has been put on trial.
A year after the killing of Shireen Abu Akleh, the killers remain free, shielded by a broken international judicial system. But a light can be glimpsed in those who carry forward Shireen’s memory.
A visit to the destroyed Palestinian village of Ajjur reveals the violence and anxiety at the heart of the Zionist enterprise.
Next week will mark 75 years since the Nakba, the “catastrophe”, that expelled 750,000 Palestinian and launched the Israeli occupation of Palestine. But the Nakba is not simply an historical event. It continues to unfold today.
75 years after the Nakba, Palestine-Israel is one state under Israeli sovereignty but unequal. The struggle for a more equitable and democratic future will be long and ferociously resisted. That does not make it any less worth fighting for.
A new Amnesty International report documents Israel’s dystopian colonial surveillance in East Jerusalem and Hebron which have become “laboratories” for facial recognition and AI technology.