In solidarity with those who fought racial apartheid in South Africa, bell hooks emphasized, “[The Black American] struggle is also a struggle of memory against forgetting.” The same is true for Palestine.
Tareq Hajjaj woke Friday to a call from the Israeli military telling him he had to flee his home to save his life. The horrors of his journey to safety reminded him of the stories he has heard of the 1948 Nakba. But this time, he was living it.
ADL, you do not speak for “The Jewish People”. Organizations that deem Palestinians as inherently threatening to Jews, solely because of who they are as human beings, do not represent a growing number of Jews who cannot tolerate the disinformation surrounding the mythology of the State of Israel.
Here in Gaza, the people who are not killed when their homes are turned into rubble by Israeli bombs are called ‘survivors’. But in reality, they cannot really be called such. How can you be a survivor if you have lost everything?
Just as the Nakba is at the heart of Palestinian national existence, the denial of the Nakba is at the heart of the racist ideology that has so successfully warped U.S. foreign policy.
Over 75 years, the number of Palestinian refugees has surpassed 6 million worldwide and many still live in refugee camps. This is a look at the people who make up the camp, and the names and faces behind the term “refugee.”
The Israeli government is pushing member countries to boycott the United Nations’ first official commemoration of the Palestinian Nakba.
On the 75th anniversary of the Nakba, the violent eviction of Palestinians from their homes and their land, we must reaffirm that freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians.
On the Nakba’s 75th anniversary, the Zionist war against Palestinian refugees is alive and well, as refugee camps continue to be besieged by the Israeli army in the attempt to quash resistance.
Despite the continued denial of the Nakba by Zionists, Palestinian refugees have not forgotten what was done to them. And more than four generations later, they have not given up on the hope that they will return.