Analysis: From Balfour to the Nakba: The Settler-Colonial Experience of Palestine
By Ilan Pappe for the Middle East Eye The late prominent scholar of settler-colonialism, Patrick Wolfe, reminded us repeatedly that…
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The ِAnnexation After Seventy-Two Years Of Continuous Nakba
By: Marwan E. Toubassi, Ambassador of the State of Palestine in Greece: Some memories permeate our very existence and penetrate…
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Palestinians to Mark Nakba Anniversary Digitally for First Time in History
On the eve of the Palestinian people’s catastrophe or Nakba anniversary, the Ramallah-based higher national committee for marking the Nakba,…
Report: Secret Israeli Unit Purging Historical Documents Related to Nakba
Israel’s ministry for military affairs has formed a secret unit tasked with concealing sensitive historical documents, with a special focus…
National and Islamic Forces Call for Mass Demonstrations on Nakba Day
Palestinian National and Islamic Forces, the supreme coordinating body of the major Palestinian factions, has called for widespread participation in…
BNC: “We can end the ongoing Nakba with hope, resistance and meaningful solidarity.”
May 15, 2019/Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC)/Palestine Palestinians in the homeland and in exile are commemorating the 71st anniversary of…
The Northern Jordan Valley: A Testimony to the Ongoing Nakba
by Isra Ghourani 05/15/19 (WAFA) – In the early morning hours, the residents of Humsa al-Fawqa village, in the northern…
Palestinians Commemorate 71st Nakba
Palestinians, today, mark the 71st anniversary of the Nakba (catastrophe), when more than 750,000 Palestinians were displaced from their homeland,…
Nakba Day: Global Campaign Launched to Deactivate Airbnb
A global coalition launched a campaign, today, against the international tourism company, Airbnb, for reversing its decision to delist properties…
70th Nakba: Celtic Fans Make Solidarity Stand on 70th Minute of Match
The Green Brigade Celtic Football Fan Club has organized a solidarity rally to commemorate the 70th Palestinian Nakba and denounce…
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70 Years of Nakba: Where Can Palestinians Go from Here?
by Amal Ahmad, Irene Calis, Haidar Eid, Razi Nabulse, for the Al Shabaka Palestinian Policy Network. May 15, 2018 The Palestinian people have perhaps never…
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Palestinians Mark Nakba Day following Israeli Bloodshed in Gaza
Just a day after mass Israeli bloodshed in Gaza, the Palestinians are marking the 70th anniversary of the Nakba (Catastrophe),…
Palestinians on US Embassy Opening in Jerusalem & 70 Years of the Ongoing Nakba
May 14, 2018 Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee (BNC) Reversing decades of US foreign policy, the Trump administration is…
General Strike to Commence on 70th Nakba Day
Palestinian Authority spokesperson Yousef al-Mahmoud, on Monday, announced a general strike for Tuesday, to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Nakba,…
Report: Ongoing Nakba Must End — Time Has Come for the International Community to Act
The Palestinian Human Rights Organizations Council has issued a statement entitled: “The ongoing Nakba must end: the time has come…
Adalah Holds 12th Annual Law Students Camp: The Nakba and the Law (VIDEO)
60 Palestinian students from West Bank, East J’lem, Golan Heights, and citizens of Israel participated; one student: ‘I hadn’t considered…
Israel to Impose Fines for Commemoration of Nakba
Israeli occupation authorities are prepared to impose massive fines on Palestinians who commemorate the Israeli occupation of Palestine, a report…
Nakba at 69: Statement by the Global Palestinian Refugee and IDP Network
International Protection to Stop the Ongoing Nakba is Long Overdue – BADIL Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights The…
BNC: Upholding our Rights, Resisting the Ongoing Nakba
The BDS National Committee (BNC) Commemorates the 69th Anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba. It is possible… It is possible at least…
What Does the Nakba Mean to Young Palestinians in Israel?
Despite Israeli authorities’ best attempts to erase history, the 1948 catastrophe is a basic component of collective memory for Palestinian…
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Reparations and the Nakba
What does it mean to advocate for compensation and repatriation when these processes are embedded within settler colonial and colonial…
Policing the Nakba: Points of Solidarity Between U.S. Citizens of Color and Israeli Palestinians
by Amjad Iraqi The transnational solidarity movement between Palestinians and Black, indigenous, and other minority Americans has made significant strides in…
PCHR: “The Nakba At 68: A Catastrophe Born Of Discrimination And Impunity”
As Palestinian refugees and internally displaced persons (approximately 66% of Palestinian population worldwide) enter the 69th year of forced displacement…
68 years: The Nakba continues
By Manuel Hassassian – The 15th May marks the Palestinian Nakba. The word Nakba means ‘catastrophe’ because that is exactly…
Army Closes Investigation into ‘Nakba Day’ Killing of Palestinian Protester by Israeli Army in 2014
The Israeli army on Wednesday closed the investigation into the killing of a Palestinian teenager during Nakba Day protests in…
ISM Day of Rage: Commemorating Nakba Day in Ni’lin (VIDEO)
On Friday 15th May 2015, hundreds of Palestinians from all over the West Bank traveled to Ni’lin for a mass…
Scores Injured as Bil’in Marks Palestinian Nakba
The Popular Committee against the Wall and Settlements in Bil’in village, near the central West Bank city of Ramallah, has…
Hundreds of Unarmed Demonstrators Confront Live Fire at Kafr Qaddum on Nakba Day
Today (15th of May), during the Nakba day demonstration in Kafr Qaddum, four young men were shot with live ammunition…
Nakba at 67: The Ongoing Crime of Forcible Population Transfer and Secondary Displacement
For Palestinians, 2015 marks the 67th year of forced displacement from, and within, their ancestral homeland.This ongoing Nakba (‘catastrophe’) continues…
Nakba Solidarity: South African Students Protest Woolworths
More than 10,000 South African students marched, earlier today, in protest against Woolworths Stores’ trade agreements with Israel. 15th May…
Aida Camp Remembers Nakba
Alrowwad Cultural & Theatre Society, today, organized a march commemorating the 67th anniversary of the Nakba. The group, mainly consisting…
Gaza: 3 Palestinians Shot and Injured in Nakba Day Protest
Three Palestinians were injured by live fire during a Nakba Day demonstration in the Gaza Strip on Friday, according to…
Palestinians In Nablus Mark Nakba Day With Candle Procession
Thousands of Palestinians marched, on Thursday at night, in the northern West Bank city of Nablus marking the 67th anniversary…
Palestinians Begin Commemoration of 67th Nakba Anniversary
In a massive protest march, thousands of Palestinians marched Wednesday, to late Palestinian President Yasser Arafat’s square in Ramallah, to…
Ashrawi: ‘Nakba did not end with the creation of Israel’
Dr. Hanan Ashrawi: “The Nakba did not end with the creation of Israel; rather, it is an ongoing process that…
Israel Paving the Way for Another Nakba?
[Translated from Arabic]Every Arab citizen inside the Green Line (Israel), seemingly, has the shelter to obtain a normal life, but,…
British Cyclers Set Out to Remap the Nakba
Cycle ’48 is a collective of 3 British women who all cycled to Palestine from the UK. The project aims…
Nakba in Tel Aviv
Imagine if in the U.S. it were illegal to teach about the genocide of the Native Americans at the hand…
Army Threatens Man Who Recorded Nakba Day Killings
The Israeli army has threatened a Palestinian citizen in Beitunia, east of Ramallah, for his part in documenting the killing…
Body of Teen Killed During Nakba Protest to Be Exhumed
Attorney General Muhammad Abd al-Ghani al-Uweili has stated that the body of Nadim Nuwara will be exhumed and taken to…
Thousands Attend Funeral for Two Boys Killed During Nakba Protests
Palestinians attended, on Friday, the funerals of Nadeem Siyam Nuwara, age 15, and Mohammad Odeh Abu al-Thahir, 17, who were…
Three More Deaths Due to Israeli Violence as Nakba Continues
In commemoration of the 66th annual Nakba day, hundreds of Palestinian youth from the Ramallah district moved against Israeli soldiers…
Thousands Mark Nakba Anniversary with Rallies in Israel, West Bank and Gaza
Palestinians commemorated, today, the 66th anniversary of the Nakba (Catastrophe) of 1948, by participating in a series of nonviolent actions…
As Palestinians Mark Nakba In Jerusalem, Army Kidnaps Four
[Thursday Evening, May 15, 2014] Dozens of Israeli soldiers and police officers attacked Palestinians nonviolently protesting, marking the 66th anniversary…
Thousands Return to Lubya in Remembrance of Nakba
As Israelis across the country celebrated their Independence Day, more than 10,000 Palestinians living in Israel and Jerusalem converged on…
Israeli Group Commemorates ‘Nakba Day’ with New App Documenting Palestinian Dispossession
As Israelis commemorated ‘Memorial Day’ on Monday, and began a series of events to lead up to ‘Independence Day’ on…
Israeli archive file shows that Israel’s founder tried to erase Palestinian Nakba
A new report published in the Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz describes the information found in a newly-uncovered document in the government…
On Nakba Day, Palestinians March In Jaffa
Wednesday May 15 2013, hundreds of Palestinians marched in Jaffa marking the 65th anniversary of the Nakba of 1948, affirming…
Thousands Mark The Nakba In Bethlehem
Thousands of Palestinians marked, on Tuesday evening, the 65th anniversary of the Nakba, and participated in a huge procession organized…
65th Commemoration: Ongoing Nakba and Secondary Forcible Displacement
Of the 11.4 million Palestinians worldwide, 66% are forcible displaced, (refugees and internally displaced people) and over half live in…
On Nakba Anniversary, Refugees Make almost Half of Population
RAMALLAH, May 14, 2013 (WAFA) – On the eve of the Nakba (catastrophe) 65th anniversary, the refugees make almost half…
OCHA Report: “370 Injured During Nakba Commemoration”; Injuries Doubled Since Last Year
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) recently issued its weekly report on Israeli violations in…
Nakba anniversary message
May 15, 2012 On this 64th anniversary of the Nakba we mourn the ethnic cleansing that began in 1948 and…
Soldiers Kidnap Child Near Hebron; Israeli Soldiers Attack Nakba Protests
Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Tuesday, a Palestinian child in Beit Ummar town, near the southern West Bank city of Hebron,…
64th Anniversary of the Nakba;
Today, 15 May 2012, marks the 64th anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba, the anniversary of the uprooting of hundreds of…
Medics: 80 Injured in Nakba Protests Near Ramallah
Ma’an News reported Medics as saying that over 80 Palestinians were injured in clashes with Israeli forces near Ramallah on…
On Nakba Day, Palestinian Refugees Remain Uprooted
The Palestinians mark the Nakba Day on May 15; the day armed forces uprooted hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from…
UN Report Critical Of Israel’s Actions During Nakba Day
The UN report into this years Nakba Day events along the Lebanese-Israeli borders has criticized Israels use of disproportionate force…
Conflicting Reports On Syria’s Involvement In Border Clashes During Nakba and Naksa Day
The UN Disengagement Force have reported their findings that Syria allowed Palestinian Refugees access to the Syria-Israeli occupied Golan border.…
Amnesty International Calls For Investigation Into Nakba Killings
Amnesty International has called on the Israeli state to undertake a full, impartial and independent investigation into the Israeli military…
Arab Leaders React To al Nakba Killings
Leaders from various Arab countries have begun to react Sunday’s events around Israel and the Occupied Territories, in which at…
9 killed as Israeli forces attack Nakba marches on northern, southern and central borders
An estimated four people were killed Sunday on the Syria-Israel border, five killed on the Lebanon-Israel border, 52 injured in…
Defying Israeli Restrictions; Thousands Mark The Nakba Day in Jaffa
Despite Israeli “laws” criminalizing the commemoration of the “Nabka Day”, that marks the creation of Israel on Palestinian lands and…
Bil’in Villagers Protest Againt The Wall To Mark The Nakba
Three civilians were injured in the village of Bil’in, near the central West Bank city of Ramallah, as the villagers…
Marking The Nakba Day On May 15, Egyptians Plan To March To Gaza
As the Palestinians prepare to mark the Nakba (Catastrophe) Day on May 15, thousands of Egyptians are said to be…
Bethlehem Marks al-Nakba
Bethlehem today marked al Nakba with a march through the town centre and speeches by local organisers and youth.The march…
Sources: Israel’s Army Gears up to Suppress Nakba Events
Israeli media sources reported on Wednesday that the Israeli Army are set to increase West Bank deployment as Palestinians prepare…
Israel criminalizes commemoration of the Nakba
A bill was passed by the Israeli Knesset (parliament) last week which calls on the government to deny funding to…
Thousands of Palestinians commemorate Nakba in Ramallah
In a massive protest march, Saturday, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, thousands of Palestinians marched through the city…
Marking The 62 anniversary Of The Nakba AL Maíssara Protest The Wall
At least around 150 villagers along with Israelis and Palestinians gathered on Friday in the village of Al Ma’ssara, southern…
62 Anniversary of the Nakba on Radio Free Palestine
Radio Free Palestine is presented by the IMEMC (in Beit Sahour) and CKUT Radio (in Montreal) in commemoration of the…
JCESR:”New Israeli Decision, As Dangerous As the Nakba of 1948”
The Jerusalem Center for Social and Economic Rights (JSCER) issued a press release slamming the Israeli decision to expel thousands…
A Nakba inherited
At the southernmost area of the Gaza Strip, where the Philadelphia route separates the coastal enclave from Egypt, there are…
Human Rights Groups in Gaza slam the government for barring a protest commemorating the Nakba
The Palestinian Police, which is under the control of the dissolved Hamas government in Gaza, barred on Friday a peaceful…
Palestinian detainees hold a hunger strike in commemoration of the Nakba
Spokesperson of the Wa’ed Society for Detainees and Freed Detainees, Abdullah Abu Qandeel, stated on Thursday that the detainees in…
Los detenidos palestinos hacen huelga de hambre en conmemoración de la Nakba
El portavoz de la Asociación Wa’ed para los Detenidos y los Liberados, Abu Abdullah Qandeel, declaró el jueves que los…
Christian Residents of Nablus commemorate the Nakba
The Good Shepherd Church in the northern West Bank city of Nablus, and the Palestine Forum, held an activity on…
Residentes Cristianos de Nablus conmemoran la Nakba
La Iglesia del Buen Pastor en la ciudad de Nablus, al norte de Cisjordania, y el Forum Palestino hicieron un…
Huelga General, protesta y conmemoraciones de la Nakba en Jerusalén
Residentes Palestinos de Jerusalén, sus lÃderes polÃticos y sociales, llevaron a cabo una huelga general en la ciudad ocupada de…
Arab, Israeli students of the Hebrew University hold a protest commemorating the Nakba
The Regional Union of Arab Students in Israeli Universities organized on Thursday a protest at main entrance of the Hebrew…
Estudiantes israelÃes árabes, en protesta en la Universidad Hebrea de Jerusalén por la Nakba
La Unión Regional de Estudiantes Ãrabes en Universidades israelÃes organizó el jueves una protesta en la entrada principal de la…
60 Years of the Palestinian Nakba, 60 Years of Ethnic Cleansing
May 15, 2008 marks the 60th anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba, when Palestinians were forced from their homes and ethnically…
Palestinians Commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Catastrophe (Nakba)
Thousands of Palestinians took to the streets in a number of Palestinians cities, towns, villages and refugee camps to commemorate…
Los Palestinos Conmemoran el 60º aniversario de la Catástrofe (Nakba)
El ejército dispara gases lacrimógenos y balas de goma a 100 jóvenes que se manifestaban en Qalandia Miles de Palestinos…
President Bush in Israel as Palestinians commemorate their Nakbah
President of the United States, Gorge W.B Bush arrived on Wednesday in Israel to attend the Hebrew state’s celebrations of…
El Presidente Bush en Israel mientras los Palestinos conmemoran su Nakbah
El Presidente de los Estados Unidos, George W.B. Bush llegó el miércoles a Israel para asistir a las celebraciones del…
The West Bank: Israeli troops attack Palestinian peaceful protests marking the 60th Nakba
The Israeli army attacked on Wednesday three Palestinian peaceful demonstrations in several parts of the West Bank, a number of…
Cisjordania:las tropas israelÃes atacan protestas pacÃficas por el 60 aniversario de la Nakba
El ejército israelà atacó el miércoles tres manifestaciones pacÃficas palestinas en varias partes de Cisjordania, y se tiene constancia de…
Bethlehem: hundreds mark the 60th Nakba by carrying the largest key in the world
At least 700 Palestinians from the southern West Bank district marched on Thursday side by side next to the largest…
Belfast Mural commemorates 60th Anniversary of Deir Yassin and Nakba
A mural commemorating the Sixtieth anniversary of the Deir Yassin massacre and the Palestinian Nakba was on Friday unveiled in…
Un mural en Belfast conmemora el 60 aniversario de Deir Yassin y Nakba
Un mural para conmemorar el 60 aniversario de la masacre de Deir Yassin y de la palestina Nakba fue inaugurado…
A double Nakba in Gaza
My pen is bleeding, my hand is shaking, my heart is sighing and my mind is stuffed with the bitter…
In Tulkarem, residents march on Nakba day, demand end of internal clashes
Thousands of residents and officials marched on Tuesday in the northern West Bank city of Tulkarem to commemorate the 59th…
Bethlehem Commemorate 59 anniversary of Al-Nakba
Palestinians in Bethlehem commemorate the 59 anniversary of the expulsion of the Palestinians people in 1948 by Jewish group and…
Palestinians start preparations to commemorate the “Nakba”
The National Committee for Commemorating the Nakba Day (cataclysm) along with several national and Islamic factions in the occupied territories,…
January 27 was Nakba minus 108 days
When in the course of human events, repeated outrages are inflicted on a particular segment of humanity, it behooves those…
Palestinians mark Nakba ‘catastrophe’ day
Palestinians have been marking the worst day in their history – the day of Israel’s creation – determined to lift…
Israeli Activists bring Jerusalem’s Palestinian history to life for Nakba Day
Neta Rotem, a 23-year-old student, stood near the cashier’s windows at the Jerusalem Theater. Dozens hurried by her to the…
On the anniversary of Al Nakba Israeli High Court upholds anti-Palestinian ruling
On the anniversary of Al Nakba, the Catastrophe, the Israeli High Court upheld a law over the weekend which specifically…