Nakba

No abandoned land: Palestinians tend ancestors' graves in village ethnically cleansed in 1948

“Anybody who wants to buy or make plans [for our land] must know that these are our graves, our houses, our olive presses, our springs, our trees and our stones.”

We were sleeping when Israel attacked: Gaza remembers June 1967

Rami Almeghari
7 June 2013

Families in al-Maghazi refugee camp had to flee Israel’s tanks and warplanes.

When Israel compensated Germans for land in Palestine

Rosemarie M. Esber
Washington, DC
5 June 2013

Unlike Palestinians, a number of Germans uprooted by Zionist forces in 1948 have received restitution.

BDS Roundup: Alice Walker, Roger Waters call on Alicia Keys to cancel Tel Aviv show

A roundup of recent global actions related to the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement.

Why I have two brothers called Omar

Yousef M. Aljamal
Nuseirat refugee camp
30 May 2013

If he hadn’t been killed by Israeli forces, my elder brother would have celebrated his 27th birthday this week.

Roads to ending Israeli apartheid envisioned in new book

Rod Such
28 May 2013

Denying the Nakba is a central tenet in Israeli supremacy, according to essays in Pretending Democracy.

"I'm afraid of dying" without returning home, says Nakba survivor

Rami Almeghari
Jabaliya refugee camp
20 May 2013

Abu Khaled’s village is just 15 kilometers from Gaza, yet he may never see it again.

Podcast: Max Blumenthal on investigating the Islamophobia industry's financial network

Max Blumenthal talks about the extensive investigation into the Islamophobia industry’s financial network, including what’s behind the Oslo Freedom Forum.

WATCH: Remi Kanazi's new poem, "Nakba," about his grandmother's expulsion in 1948

Remi Kanazi’s intimate poem honors his grandmother, who was forcibly displaced from her home in Palestine during the 1948 Nakba.

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