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Commemoration: Nakba Day on 15 May in Ramallah, the Palestinian administrative capital, marking the day mass displacement of Palestinians and the destruction of Palestinian life and homeland took place in 1948. Photo: Heinrich Böll Foundation Palestine & Jordan
FREE MANDELA CAMPAIGN

Measuring dignity in conditions of captivity

Nakba Day invites all of us to think about belonging, about how we treat those who we think do not belong and about the importance of rules in the negotiation of spaces of…

  • Verne Harris
  • Samantha Mashapa
4 min read
Palestinians have been persecuted ever since the formation of Israel.
CATASTROPHE

Nakba 2.0: The catastrophe continues

Seventy-seven years ago hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were forcibly evicted from their homes. Since then they remain under siege in the West Bank and Gaza, where 50,000…

  • Sõzarn Barday
4 min read
A Palestinian steps on a Israeli flag during a demonstration ahead of the 74th anniversary of the Nakba, the "catastrophe" of Israel’s creation in 1948. – Palestinians and Arab Israelis commemorate the Nakba on May 15 — the official date of Israel’s creation according to the western calendar. Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians fled their homes or were forced out of them on the creation of Israel in 1948. Those who stayed in their villages when Israel was created are now described as Israeli Arabs, but the majority became refugees in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and neighbouring Arab countries. (Majdi Fathi/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
APARTHEID

Jews are not obliged to support Zionism and the policies of the Israeli government

One cannot choose one’s race or nationality, but one can choose one’s political views and live by those choices

  • Mervyn Bennun
7 min read