This Nakba Day was different because it fell amidst the many recent developments in what we call the Arab Spring. It is probably correct that Palestinians have been feeling left out, as the attention ...
People take part in the pro-Palestinian demonstration "Palestine will be free". May 15 marked Nakba Remembrance Day, when Palestinians commemorate the expulsion 76 years ago. Fabian Sommer/dpa Around ...
The newly announced exhibit is surprising but long overdue, and represents an act of institutional accountability.
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Editor: The Palestinian narrative over the term “nakba” has evolved into a deliberate contortion of the original meaning of the term. Unfortunately, that contortion has been echoed by the media’s ...
On May 15, 2023, the United Nations will stage a high-level special meeting to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Nakba – the mass displacement of around 750,000 Palestinians from their homeland ...
(RNS) — People who reflexively invoke Israel’s right to exist conflate the right of a nation to exist with the right to oppress. (RNS) — The state of Israel wants you to think it’s a democracy. But ...
DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN — Palestinians and their supporters marked the 77th annual Nakba Day on Thursday with a rally in Downtown Brooklyn and a march over the Brooklyn Bridge to gatherings at City Hall ...
The first and only time I commemorated Nakba Day was on a kibbutz in Israel. The Nakba, which means “catastrophe” in Arabic, was the mass displacement of the Palestinian people that occurred with the ...
Nearly eight decades after the Nakba – the mass displacement of Palestinians that led to the establishment of the state of Israel – its impact continues to shape the lives of millions in Palestine and ...
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — On Thursday, a group of people appeared in court for the first time after they were arrested and charged with trespassing while at a Nakba Day Vigil on the University of Tennessee's ...