Nakba
Updated 2024-07-26
Nakba – Wikipedia The Nakba was the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in Mandatory Palestine during the 1948 Palestine war through their violent displacement and dispossession of land, property and belongings, along with the destruction of their society, culture, identity, political rights, and national aspirations. The term is also used to described the ongoing persecution and displacement of Palestinians by Israel. As a whole, it covers the shattering of Palestinian society and the long-running rejection of the right of return for Palestinian refugees and their descendants. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakba
Palestinian Nakba News https://www.bing.com/search?q=The+Palestinian+Nakba+%26+The+Establishment+of+Israeli+Apartheid
Nakba Timeline Map (work by Nisreen Zahda) Nakba Timeline Map: One second for every depopulated Palestinian city and village” (infographic map). This time animated map describes the chronological order of the systemic depopulation and then the erasing of more than 437 Palestinian cities and villages during the 1948 Nakba. Work by: Nisreen Zahda https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnLsVA0RYoQ
Quick Facts: The Palestinian Nakba (“Catastrophe”) https://imeu.org/article/quick-facts-the-palestinian-nakba
Tantura – Documentary The untold story of Israel’s foundation. Hundreds of Palestinian villages were depopulated in 1948. To Israelis, it was the War of Independence, to Palestinians it was ‘Al Nakba’ – the Catastrophe. Director Alon Schwarz revisits former Israeli soldiers as well as Palestinian residents in an effort to re-examine what happened in Tantura, the location of an alleged, Israeli-perpetrated massacre, and find out why ‘Al Nakba’ is still a taboo in Israeli society. https://www.journeyman.tv/film/8315
Al-Nakba Debate Documentary The historic struggle for Palestine is characterised as the claims and counter-claims of Arabs and Jews, but one factor that is often overlooked behind the Palestinian ‘Nakba’ or ‘catastrophe’ of 1948, is the part played by an old imperial power, Britain. The history is written by the victors, who are the rewriters of history as new information, new documents, and new historians, come to light. It is time to examine how history itself is the battleground for the hearts and minds of new generations today. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6b-18B37O8&t=1s
How did the Nakba happen? | Al Jazeera English 70 years have passed since the Nakba, the “catastrophe” in Arabic, took place in Palestine in 1948. In which more than 750,000 Palestinians were forcefully displaced from their homes and pushed into refugee camps in East Jerusalem, the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and neighbouring countries. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=megzzpTWajg&t=7s
2024-05-24 Nakba Day – The struggle continues for a free Palestine People all over the world demonstrated during the week of May 12 — 19 to commemorate the 76th anniversary of Nakba (“the Catastrophe”), the day on May 15, 1948, when the new Zionist state of Israel culminated its brutal removal of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from their lands. https://www.workers.org/2024/05/78837/
2024-05-24 Cambridge remembers Nakba Day, in solidarity with Rafah! Around 200 demonstrators gathered on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus in Cambridge on May 15 to demand an end to the Zionist genocide in Gaza and the liberation of Palestine. Members of the Boston Coalition for Palestine, including the Palestine Youth Movement, the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL) and student organizers at MIT, organized the action to commemorate the 76th anniversary of the Nakba — the 1948 genocidal colonization of Palestine. https://www.workers.org/2024/05/78868/
2024-02-07 ‘Gaza has given me a greater understanding of the Nakba’ | Alana Hadid | Real Talk Alana Hadid belongs to one of the most recognisable Palestinian families in the world. So when she sat down with us on Real Talk, we tried to unpack the pressures that come with that. In our conversation with Hadid, we spoke about Gaza and how she was impacted by the last few months. We also spoke about her activism, her views on how Gaza may influence the upcoming US elections, and a closer look at the forced expulsion of her Palestinian father and grandparents from their home during the Nakba of 1948.
#RealTalk is a Middle East Eye interview show hosted by Mohamed Hashem that delves into the stories and experiences of a diverse range of guests. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUcE3fB_Gzg
2023-10-13 Why I no longer stand with Israel, and never will again The Arabs of Abu Yahiya provided Yaakov and his fellow Zionists with fresh water and would often guard the property of the Kibbutz while the men were away on work. There was an understanding between the leaders of Abu Yahia and the Hatzerim Kibbutz that they would be allowed to remain once Israel took control of the Negev. Instead, when war came, the Kibbutzniks from Hatzerim turned on their Arab neighbors, killing them and driving the survivors away from their homes forever.
Most of the survivors ended up living in Gaza. The slaughter and physical eradication of the village of Abu Yahiya, the town of Bersheeba, and the 245 other Arab towns and villages in the Negev by Israeli settlers and soldiers has gone down in history as the Nakba, or “Catastrophe.” The Palestinians, when speaking of the Nakba, do not only address the events of 1948, but everything that has transpired since then in the name of the post-1948 sustainment, expansion, and defense of Zionism that defines modern-day Israel. Israelis do not talk about the Nakba, instead referring to the events of 1948 as their “War of Independence.”
“Silence on the Nakba,” one contemporary scholar on the subject has observed, “is also part of everyday life in Israel.” https://www.scottritterextra.com/p/why-i-no-longer-stand-with-israel
2023-05-15 The Nakba: Five Palestinian towns massacred 75 years ago Every year on May 15, Palestinians mark a sombre occasion: the Nakba (“catastrophe” in Arabic) that befell Palestinians in the lead-up to and during 1948, when they were expelled from their historic and ancestral land by Zionist militias. During the Nakba, a mass expulsion ensued where hundreds of villages were depopulated, homes were destroyed, and thousands were killed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPqUbYJIDhw
2023-05-12 The Nakba: Why Palestinians refuse to forget “A majority of the Arab population of Palestine was expelled from their homes in 1948. People don’t forget that.” In this interview with MEE, Palestinian-American historian Rashid Khalidi explains why the memory of the Nakba is stronger than ever. Every year on 15 May, Palestinians mark the Nakba (catastrophe), the ethnic cleansing of Palestine and the near-total destruction of Palestinian society in 1948. Between 1947 and 1949, Zionist forces seized more than 78 percent of historic Palestine and expelled at least 750,000 Palestinians from their lands and homes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsfhOq57u6U
2023-05-10 Erasure vs. Sumud: How the Nakba Came to Define the Collective Palestinian Identity On May 15, 2023, the Palestinian Nakba will be 75 years old.
Palestinians all over the world will commemorate the tragic occasion, known as the ‘Catastrophe’, when nearly 800,000 Palestinians were made refugees and nearly 500 towns and villages were ethnically cleansed of their inhabitants in historic Palestine between late 1947 and mid-1948.
The depopulation of Palestine carried on for months; in fact, years after the Nakba was supposedly concluded. But the Nakba has never actually concluded. Until this day, Palestinian communities in East Jerusalem, in the southern Hebron hills, in the Naqab Desert and elsewhere, are still suffering the consequences of Israel’s quest for demographic supremacy. And, of course, millions of refugees remain stateless, denied basic political and human rights.
In a speech before the ‘UN World Conference against Racism’ in 2001, Palestinian intellectual, Dr. Hanan Ashrawi aptly described the Palestinian people as “a nation in captivity held hostage to an ongoing Nakba”. Elaborating, Ashrawi described this ‘ongoing Nakba’ as “the most intricate and pervasive expression of persistent colonialism, apartheid, racism and victimization.” This means that we must not think of the Nakba only as an event in time and place.
Though the massive influx of refugees in 1947-48 was a direct outcome of the Zionist ethnic cleansing campaign as devised in ‘Plan Dalet’, that event had officially ushered in a greater Nakba, which continues to this day. ‘Plan Dalet’, or Plan D, was initiated by the Zionist leadership and carried out by the Zionist militias with the aim of emptying Palestine of most of its native inhabitants. They did so successfully, while paving the way for decades of violence and suffering, the brunt of which was borne by the Palestinian people. In fact, the current Israeli occupation and entrenched racial apartheid regime in Palestine are not simply the intended or unintended outcomes of the Nakba, but direct manifestations of a Nakba that never truly concluded. https://www.blackagendareport.com/erasure-vs-sumud-how-nakba-came-define-collective-palestinian-identity
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