Nakba Law

Despite threats, students to commemorate Nakba at Tel Aviv University

Patrick O. Strickland
Tel Aviv
10 May 2013

Counter-demonstrators attacked last year’s event marking the anniversary of the dispossession of Palestine

Let's unite our struggles to challenge legacies of US and Israeli ethnic cleansing

Aman Aberra,
Shifa Alkhatib and
Gabriel Schivone
11 October 2012

Israel’s law against equating its foundation with ethnic cleansing mimics Arizona’s ban on Mexican studies.

Can rights be won in Israel's courts?

Mazen Masri
4 June 2012
Litigation on the part of the Palestinian minority in Israel and their rights requires the consideration of an especially complex situation.

Palestinians assert right to return on Israeli "Independence Day"

Asa Winstanley
the Galilee
1 May 2012
Thousands of Palestinians marched to destroyed villages and called for the return of Palestinian refugees.

Rights groups: anti-boycott law "effectively a legal annexation of W. Bank"

Submitted by Maureen Clare Murphy on Tue, 07/12/2011 - 16:16
Human rights groups in Israel are protesting the new Israeli law passed yesterday which “prohibits boycott of businesses, universities, and social and cultural institutions based in Israel and the illegal settlements, and imposes heavy financial sanctions against civil society organizations and businesses that participate in boycotts.”

From Palestine to Tucson, solidifying the bonds of solidarity

Yusi El Boujami,
Gabriel Schivone and
Ryan Velasquez
11 June 2011
A review of the history of modern Palestine reflects a startling image of the conquest and colonization of traditional indigenous lands settled by the US.

Thousands of Palestinians in Israel march to return

Jillian Kestler-D'Amours
13 May 2011
As nationalist parties and festivals were held throughout Israel to mark the country’s Independence Day on 10 May, several thousand Palestinians and their supporters held a commemoration of their own in the Galilee, demanding the right to return to their ancestral villages and homes.

Palestinian rights group submits petition to Israeli High Court to reverse "Nakba Law"

Submitted by Nora Barrows-Fr... on Wed, 05/04/2011 - 16:48

Adalah: The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel has submitted a petition to the Israeli High Court demanding that the government overturn its recent decision to criminalize commemoration of the Nakba — the ethnic cleansing and expulsion of 800,000 Palestinians before, during and after Israel declared itself a state in 1948.

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