Nakba

"I can't take part in these crimes": Israeli refusenik interviewed

Jillian Kestler-D'Amours
14 March 2012
Eighteen-year-old Noam Gur, the first Israeli to reject mandatory military service this year, speaks out about refusing to partake in Israel’s ongoing crimes against humanity even if it means jail time.

Stealing a moment in a stolen land: the photography of Katie Ramadan

Jonathan Cook
Nazareth
5 March 2012
Katie Ramandan’s collection of photos currently on exhibition in Nazareth explores the meaning of home and the boundaries between private and public space.

Video testimony of a Palmach fighter who expelled Palestinians during the Nakba

Video testimony from Amnon Neumann, a man who fought with the Palmach during the Nakba of 1948.

It's the right moment for churches to pay attention to Israel's occupation

James M. Wall
23 December 2011
A new book about the Palestine Kairos Document tells the story of the Christian churches’ effort to communicate the suffering imposed by Israel on Palestinians.

New Pappe book highlights plight of forgotten Palestinians

Asa Winstanley
7 December 2011
Historian Ilan Pappe addresses the plight of Palestinians who remained in the new State of Israel following the Nakba in The Forgotten Palestinians.

Israel can never steal our heritage

Rana Baker
Gaza City
6 December 2011
We Palestinians have nothing to cherish more than our roots and ancestral identity. And no matter how hard it tries, Israel can never take our heritage away from us.

Unmasking Gershom Gorenberg, historian and apologist for ethnic cleansing

Stephen Maher
1 December 2011
Zionism seeks to erase and rewrite history in order to avoid accepting its ugly colonial legacy.

Israel's war on Palestinian culture

In a new article made available today by the journal Jerusalem Quarterly, activist and The Electronic Intifada contributor Hannah Mermelstein discusses a lesser known part of the ethnic cleansing of Palestine — the attempted annihilation of the Palestinian nation through cultural theft and destruction.

Exhibition explores implementing right of return

Jillian Kestler-D'Amours
Tel Aviv
24 October 2011
A new exhibition reveals how the right of return for Palestinian refugees could be implemented.

Palestinians in Jordan refugee camp long to return

John Ridley
30 August 2011
Behind every door in Baqaa refugee camp, one finds tragedy as well as perseverance.

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