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Children are Entitled to the Truth: Teaching Young People about Palestine in Canadian Schools and Beyond
By Paul Salvatori I was at a Toronto mall Saturday. I help coordinate a weekly talent show there. After one of the talented singers, a girl about 10 years old, performed the MC asked […]

An Australian Setback for the Settler Regime
By Jeremy Salt Two Albaneses made international news in mid-October. One was the Australian Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, whose government withdrew Australia’s recognition of West Jerusalem as the zionist settler state’s capital, declared in 2018 […]

Operation ‘Cast Thy Bread’: Unearthed Documents Reveal Israeli Militias Poisoned Wells during Nakba
Historians have recovered official documentation proving that Israeli militias poisoned wells to prevent expelled Palestinians from returning to their home villages during the Nakba in 1948, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported on Friday. Testimonies regarding […]

‘We are Going to Be Professionals about It’: The Role of Education in the Palestinian Struggle for Justice
By Paul Salvatori Recently I was sifting through an older video of Irwin Cotler, Canada’s Special Envoy on Preserving Holocaust Remembrance and Combatting Antisemitism. I was specifically looking for an observation he makes on […]

Palestine in the Elizabethan Era: Will Britain Atone for Its Sinful Policies
By Ilan Pappe – The Palestine Chronicle While millions of people in Britain and around the world can not stop singing the praises of the late Queen as a paragon of moderation, sensibility, and […]

Newly-Released Documents Shed Light on Israeli Massacre of Palestinians in Kafr Qasem
A series of newly-released documents have revealed fresh details on the premeditated murder of 49 Palestinian civilians at the hands of Israeli forces during the massacre in the village of Kafr Qasem, in October 1956, […]

The Hundred Year War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017
By Jim Miles (The Hundred Year War on Palestine – A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017. Rashid Khalidi. Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company, New York, 2020.) With the writing of “The Hundred […]

Dispersion of Palestinian Sports: A Stumbling Block to Sports Development
By Issam Khalidi Palestinian sports movement is unique in the modern age because no other people have experienced catastrophes, displacement, or dispersal as the Palestinians have. During the years before 1948, this movement was marked […]

The Right of Return to the Fig Tree
By Ilan Pappe – The Palestine Chronicle Raeda Taha is a famous actress who appears on many stages in the Arab world and beyond. Raeda became widely known after she performed her own play, […]

50 Years After His Assassination, Ghassan Kanafani Lives (VIDEO)
By Palestine Chronicle Staff On this day, 50 years ago, Palestinian militant intellectual Ghassan Kanafani, 36, was assassinated by the Israeli Mossad, who planted a bomb in his car in the Lebanese capital, Beirut. […]

US Presbyterian Church Declares Israel ‘Apartheid State’, Designates Nakba Remembrance Day
The US Presbyterian Church voted on Tuesday at its 225th General Assembly to declare Israel an “apartheid state” and designate a Nakba Remembrance Day within their calendars, The New Arab reported. The church claims over […]

No Peace without Justice: On Determining the Future of Palestine
By Benay Blend For the past few weeks there have been several articles by and about liberal Zionists who are attempting to create an image of a kinder, gentler Israeli state. On June 8, for […]

A Journey to June 1967 and Back: On the Fabricated Narratives of Zionism
By Ilan Pappe – The Palestine Chronicle On this 55th anniversary of the June 1967 war, it is worthwhile to refute, once more, the fabrications and myths surrounding this war that helped to immunize […]

Palestine’s New Resistance Model: How the Last Year Redefined the Struggle for Palestinian Freedom
By Ramzy Baroud What took place between May 2021 and May 2022 is nothing less than a paradigm shift in Palestinian resistance. Thanks to the popular and inclusive nature of Palestinian mobilization against the […]

The Palestinian Nakba: In Memory and the Present – A Documentary
‘The Palestinian Nakba: In Memory and the Present’, is a short documentary by Redfish, directed by Robert Inlakesh. The film intends to show Palestinian 1948 Nakba survivors, along with Palestinians from succeeding generations, expressing their […]

US Lawmakers Urge Blinken on Masafer Yatta Evictions
A group of US lawmakers urged Secretary of State Anthony Blinken on Thursday to pressure the Israeli government to halt the impending evictions of nearly 1,200 Palestinians from their homes in the Masafer Yatta area, […]

Perilous Journey of a Journalist: The Murder of Shireen Abu Akleh
By Jamal Kanj The killing of Al Jazeera journalist, Shireen Abu Akleh on May 11, is one more chapter of the 74-year-old Palestinian Nakba (catastrophe). Much had been argued about the creation of Israel and […]

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 […]

From Nakba 74 and Beyond: Solidarity is Ongoing
By Benay Blend On Nakba Day 2022, thousands of people around the world marked the 74th anniversary of the “catastrophe” of 1948 that saw nearly 800,000 Palestinians expelled from their homes as Zionists established the illegal […]

Palestinian Rights Group Challenges City Mayor and Ministry of Foreign Affairs
By Neil Ballantyne A Palestinian rights organization in Aotearoa New Zealand has challenged Mayor Andy Foster of Wellington City Council for his refusal to light up a local council building in the colors of the […]

US Lawmakers Introduce Bill that Recognizes Palestinian Nakba
A number of US congress members introduced to the US House on Monday a bill that recognizes the Palestinian Nakba, the forced expulsion and ethnic cleansing of over 750,000 Palestinians 74 years ago, the official […]

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 […]

Jewish Settlers Raise Israeli Flag at Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron
Jewish settlers on Wednesday raised the Israeli flag atop the Ibrahimi Mosque, the second holiest Islamic site in Palestine, ahead of Israel’s so-called ‘Independence Day’, the official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported. The Ibrahimi Mosque […]

British War Mongers Must Be Reigned In and Held To Account
By Iqbal Jassat Dramatic political events in the last few days, ranging from what many pundits describe as a coup in Pakistan to the intensity of armed resistance within the Occupied Palestinian Territories against Israeli […]

Palestine as a Song: Grandmothers’ Journeys into Musical Steadfastness
By Louis Brehony Painting land and people in vivid colors, Nazareth-born vocalist and researcher Dalal Abu Amneh embarked in Summer 2021 on a trip around Palestine for the Al Araby 2 series “Mishwar Sitti” (My […]