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Nakba Day

‘Declare May 15 Day of Mourning’ – Former Turkish Prime Minister Davutoğlu Urges World Leaders
By Nurah Tape – The Palestine Chronicle “The basic steps of this action plan is 15th of May is a special day of commemoration of all victims of Palestinians from 1948 until today. And […]

‘The Nakba is Now Ours’ – What is the Palestinian Nakba Day? Why It Matters?
By Palestine Chronicle Staff On Wednesday, May 15, Palestinians around the world are marking the 76th anniversary of the Nakba of 1948. What is the Nakba? Nakba Day is commemorated every year on May […]

Palestinians Praise Portugal’s Recognition of Nakba, Israel Censure
The Portuguese Parliament voted on Friday, by majority, to recognize the Nakba and praised the Palestinians’ struggle to obtain their right to self-determination. The Palestinian Authority (PA) on Friday welcomed the decision of the Portuguese […]

PA President Urges UN to Suspend Israel’s Membership
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas urged on Monday the international community to suspend Israel’s membership in the United Nations for obstructing the implementation of UN resolutions and international law, Anadolu News Agency reported. Abbas spoke […]

Bury Me in Ajjur: The Palestinian Refugees of the West Bank
By Fayha Shalash – Ramallah Khairiya Ahmed, 80, sits on the doorstep of her house in Al-Arroub camp, north of Hebron (Al-Khalil), in the occupied West Bank. She leans on her crutches and contemplates the […]

Palestinians Commemorate the Nakba in Photos: ‘We Will Never Forget’
By Palestine Chronicle Staff Hundreds of Palestinians took part in a Nakba commemoration event in front of the United Nations headquarters in Gaza City on Monday. Monday, May 15, marks the 75th anniversary of […]

Western Silence Needs to be Confronted: Ilan Pappe on the Nakba, Gaza and Inclusive Solidarity
By Ilan Pappe – The Palestine Chronicle Once more the Gaza Strip is bombarded from the air, land, and sea, and, once more, Israeli inhumanity and cruelty are met with Western silence. We have […]

Al-Nakba 75: A Challenge to Defeat Colonizers of Palestine
By Iqbal Jassat As most of the world recoils in horror watching deliberately calculated Israeli brutality and cold-blooded killing of Palestinians, many who are outraged would be asking: when will Zionist-led pogroms end? After all, […]

Resistance Until Victory: On 75 Years of Al-Nakba
By Benay Blend In a podcast several days ago on YouTube former Senator from Minnesota Al Franken explained that Israel was the original Jewish homeland, but “of course, it wasn’t a perfect solution because the […]

End the ‘Memoricide’: Planting for Nakba Day
By Lois Griffiths May 15, Nakba Day, is an important date for the Palestinian people. It’s the day when Palestinians commemorate their history and their culture. While Israeli nationalists and Zionist supporters celebrate the forming […]

For First Time in History, UN Commemorates Palestinian Nakba
For the first time in its history, the United Nations General Assembly is commemorating the Palestine Nakba on Monday. “This year marks the 75th anniversary of the mass displacement of Palestinians known as ‘the Nakba’ […]

Israeli Occupation Forces Kill Palestinian Youth near Nablus
A Palestinian youth was killed early Monday by Israeli gunfire during a military raid in the refugee camp of Askar, east of the occupied West Bank city of Nablus, the official Palestinian news agency WAFA […]

The Nakba Day Triumph: How the UN Is Correcting a Historical Wrong
The next Nakba Day will be officially commemorated by the United Nations General Assembly on May 15, 2023. The decision by the world’s largest democratic institution is significant, if not a game changer. For nearly […]

UN General Assembly Adopts Resolution Commemorating Nakba Day
The UN General Assembly adopted a resolution on Wednesday to mark Nakba Day, which commemorates the forced expulsion of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from their lands in 1948, The New Arab reported. 90 states […]

Right of Return: Nakba is Back on Palestinian Agenda
By Ramzy Baroud The Nakba is back on the Palestinian agenda. For nearly three decades, Palestinians were told that the Nakba – or Catastrophe – is a thing of the past. That real peace […]

The Nakba Doesn’t Disappear Down Under
By Paul Salvatori New Zealand reminds me of Canada. And I regret I don’t mean that as a compliment. The two countries have a dearth of Palestinian voices in mainstream media. I started thinking […]

In Photos: Palestinians Rally for the Right of Return in Gaza
By Palestine Chronicle Staff Thousands of Palestinians throughout the besieged Gaza Strip continued to commemorate the 74th anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba. Palestinians mark May 15 of every year as Nakba Day, a reference […]

Dozens of Palestinians Wounded in Israeli Crackdown on Nakba Demonstrations
Israeli occupation forces on Sunday cracked down on demonstrations that commemorated the 74th anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba across the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem, wounding scores of protesters, Arab48 reported. According to the news […]

Thousands of Palestinians Mark 74th Anniversary of the Nakba
Thousands of Palestinians marked today the 74thanniversary of the Nakba of 1948 when approximately 800,000 Palestinians were ethnically cleansed from their homes in historic Palestine by invading Zionist militias. In Ramallah, in the center of the […]

This is Palestine: Gazans Commemorate Right of Return by Celebrating Their History, Culture (PHOTOS)
By Palestine Chronicle Staff Palestinians in Gaza are commemorating the 74th anniversary of the Nakba, the ‘Catastrophic’ destruction of the Palestinian homeland, which led to the creation of the State of Israel. The National […]

‘Our Nakba and Their Independence’: On the Problem with the Zionists’ Version of Two Narratives
By Benay Blend “Israelis celebrate their Independence Day,” Dareen Tatour explains, “but it comes with celebrating the suffering of our ancestors, the displacement of our people and the memory of massacres perpetrated against us over […]

On Memory, Resistance, and Nakba Day 2021
By Benay Blend In “Invention, Memory, and Place,” the late Edward Said reflects on the question of collective memory: what is remembered, how, and in what form? On Nakba Day, May 15, 2021, it is […]

Why Israel Fears the Nakba: How Memory Became Palestine’s Greatest Weapon
By Ramzy Baroud On May 15, thousands of Palestinians in Occupied Palestine and throughout the ‘shatat’, or diaspora, participated in the commemoration of Nakba Day, the one event that unites all Palestinians, regardless of their […]

How We Became Refugees: The Day My Grandfather Lost His Village in Palestine
By Ramzy Baroud Starting on March 27, 1948, a beautiful, small Palestinian village called Beit Daras, came under Zionist militias attacks. With little means – a few old rifles and kitchen knives – the […]

Palestinians Take to Social Media, Digital Initiatives to Mark Nakba Day (VIDEO)
Demonstrations across Palestinian cities and towns to commemorate the Nakba have been canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic this year. Instead, Palestinian activists took to social media to commemorate the 72nd anniversary of the Nakba, […]

My Beit Daras, My Nakba: Two Palestinian Intellectuals Reminiscing about Their Destroyed Village (VIDEO)
By Romana Rubeo Dr. Ghada Ageel and Dr. Ramzy Baroud have more in common than their scholarly research on Palestinian history and politics. They are both refugees, and the direct descendants of Palestinian refugees […]

Pilgrimage to Palestine: A New Form of Resistance
By Ghada Ageel Last August, the voice came loud through the phone line, “We made it, mom. We are home. We are in Gaza.” It was one of the most pleasant pieces of news I […]

From Turtle Island to Palestine al-Nakba al-Mustamera is Ongoing
By Benay Blend In Louise Erdrich’s latest novel, a fictionalized version of her Chippewa grandfather’s struggle for his people, the night watchman, of the title’s name (The Night Watchman 2020), battles against House Concurrent Resolution […]

Arabs, UN Must Move to Swiftly Protect the Status of Palestinian Refugees
By Ramzy Baroud ‘Heinous racism,’ is how the Geneva-based Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor described a recent decision by Lebanese authorities to bar Palestinian refugee expats from returning to Lebanon. Lebanon’s restrictions on its ever-diminishing population of […]

The PA’s Disengagement Rhetoric is Farcical
By Ramona Wadi The Palestinian Authority’s promotion of its disengagement from Israel’s military occupation is mostly diplomatic jargon tied yet again to the two-state compromise. Whatever inference to resistance Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh may impart, […]