This is the Forward’s coverage of the Nakba (Arabic for “Catastrophe”), the forced expulsion of Palestinians from Israel after the country was established in 1948.
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Opinion Holiday for Jewish Refugees? Not Without Nakba Day.
Moroccan Jews living in the Jewish ghetto in Marrakesh circa 1955 / Getty Images I wish I could cheer the latest bill approved by Israel’s Knesset. I should, theoretically, be happy about it — the new law is designed to address the issues of people like me. And yet, when I read about it, I…
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Fast Forward Autopsy Shows Live Bullet Killed Unarmed Palestinian Teen in Videotaped Slaying
The Palestinian attorney-general said on Thursday an autopsy has found that a live bullet killed a Palestinian teenager in an incident that a human rights group has termed a possible Israeli war crime. “A fragment from a live bullet was found inside the body of the martyr,” Abdel-Ghani Al-A’wewy told Reuters after the autopsy on…
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Fast Forward Israel Kills 2 Palestinians in Nakba Protests
Israeli forces shot dead two Palestinians during a stone-throwing protest on Thursday marking the “Nakba”, the annual commemoration of what Palestinians term the catastrophe of their displacement when Israel was founded. Hospital officials said Muhammad Abu Thahr, 22, and Nadim Nuwara, 17, were both shot in the heart outside Israel’s Ofer Prison near the Palestinian…
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Opinion Why the iNakba App Is a Brilliant Idea
Views of the iNakba app / Zochrot What would be a reasonable response to this week’s release of the interactive iNakba app, designed to help users “locate the Palestinian localities destroyed in the Nakba since 1948 and to learn about them”? Given the depth of ignorance surrounding the topic, you could greet iNakba as an…
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The Schmooze The Nakba in Israeli Art
This Saturday, May 15th, will be the first illegal Nakba Day in the state of Israel’s history. Due to a law passed by the Knesset last summer, any organization that receives public funds will be forbidden from taking part in demonstrations that commemorate the “Nakba,” an Arabic term for the catastrophe that befell the Palestinian…
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