Unveiling a Dark History: Nakba’s Tragedy Continues Unabated after 75 Years

Unveiling a Dark History: Nakba’s Tragedy Continues Unabated after 75 Years

Even with all the protests and mentions of Nakba Day on social media, commemorating this horrific, sad event is nowhere near where it ought to be. Arguably one of the darkest and most awful chapters in the long history of Palestine, the Nakba needs to be fully commemorated in every capital in the world. The…

The Nakba and the Polish Law

The Nakba and the Polish Law

Israel seems upset by a new Polish law that sets a 30-year deadline for Jews to recover seized property. The legislation is yet to be approved by Poland’s senate, yet Israeli officials already refer to it as the “Holocaust law.” They insist that it is ‘immoral’ and ‘a disgrace.’ Last week Israeli Minister of Foreign…

The Truth Is Out About Israel’s Cover-up of Nakba Facts

The Truth Is Out About Israel’s Cover-up of Nakba Facts

In light of the 73rd anniversary of the Nakba, we repost this article first published in 2019. Recent news reports have shed light on the lengths to which Israel’s security establishment is going in order to cover-up the history of the country’s war crimes against Palestinians. A long piece in Haaretz earlier this month [2019]…

Israel’s Annexation Plan Is “The Nakba Revisited”

Israel’s Annexation Plan Is “The Nakba Revisited”

Anniversaries commemorate past events. And you could be forgiven for thinking that an event which happened 72 years ago is indeed in the past. This is true of most anniversaries, except when it comes to the Nakba, the “disaster, catastrophe or cataclysm” that marks the partition of Mandatory Palestine in 1948 and the creation of Israel….

On Nakba Day, Israelis Forced to Confront a Guilty Secret

On Nakba Day, Israelis Forced to Confront a Guilty Secret

For 66 years Israel’s founding generation has lived with a guilty secret, one it successfully concealed from the generations that followed. Forests were planted to hide war crimes. School textbooks mythologised the events surrounding Israel’s creation. The army was blindly venerated as the most moral in the world. Once, “Nakba” – Arabic for “Catastrophe”, referring…