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In Mondoweiss, the Arab Renaissance for Democracy and Development (ARDD)  Senior Advisor on the Question of Palestine, Dr. Lex Takkenberg, reflects on the plight of the Palestinian people, who have been deprived of their homeland in the century-old confrontation with Zionism and Israel, three decades after the conclusion of the Oslo Accords. Building on British […]

Vera Sajrawi writes in +972 May 15, 2023 This is the first in a two-part series by +972 editor Vera Sajrawi retracing her family’s Nakba stories. Invisibility is a painful human experience. My family is living proof. When Zionist militias captured 78 percent of historic Palestine in 1948, expelling about 750,000 Palestinians from what became the State of […]

Ariel David reports in Haaretz on 13 September 2023: At a quick glance, there is nothing unusual atop the hill of Tel Qedesh. Wild boars frolic among the dry grass and the sparse trees on this apparently unassuming mound in the Upper Galilee, just a stone’s throw from Israel’s border with Lebanon. But look closer […]

Gideon Levy writes in Haaretz on 13 August 2023: At the Tel Aviv demonstrations against the government’s judicial overhaul, the best people in Israel can be found in the area staked out by the Anti-Occupation Bloc – the people of conscience who recognize that there’s no such thing as a democracy with a military tyranny […]

Tariq Raouf reports in The New Arab on 10 August 2023: Although Nakba Day has come and gone, Palestinians all over the world will always ensure their history is never erased. To commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba, the Palestinian Museum US is hosting an architectural exhibit in Venice, Italy, through November 23, with […]

Hagar Shezaf reports in Haaretz on 16 August 2023: The boundaries of two West Bank outposts in the South Hebron Hills that had been built without government permission and legalized by the new Israeli cabinet in February are to be expanded considerably, maps released on Monday by the Israeli Civil Administration in the West Bank […]

Ofer Aderet writes in Haaretz Jun 23, 2023 Even half a century later, reading minutes from the Israel Defense Forces’ Judea and Samaria Division discussions is difficult. Each step in the establishment of a West Bank settlement is cataloged, step by step, from planning to execution. The first step was dispossessing residents of the nearby […]

Jonathan Cook writes in Middle East Eye 17 May 2023 As Israel celebrates its 75th anniversary, the state-building project it cemented into place in 1948 by expelling 750,000 Palestinians from their homeland is showing the first signs of unravelling. The surprise is that Israel’s woes spring not, as generations of its leaders feared, from outside […]

Pedro Brieger writes in Middle East Eye 18 May 2023 Recognising the catastrophe of Palestinian expulsion in 1948, the Arabic term ‘Nakba’ has emerged as a political concept, using collective memory as resistance On 22 November 2022, the United Nations General Assembly asked the Division of the Secretariat for Palestinian Human Rights to “dedicate the […]

Jonathan Ofir writes in Mondoweiss May 14, 2023 The cacti at Givat Haim Ichud are a remnant of Khirbet el-Manshiyya, the Palestinian village whose ruins the kibbutz was built on top of. (Photo: Jonathan Ofir) “Jewish villages were built in the place of Arab villages. You do not even know the names of these Arab […]