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What is the Palestinian Nakba and why is it so relevant?

In Arabic, the word "nakba" means catastrophe or disaster. In reference to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the term Nakba or al-Nakba refers to the Palestinians' loss of their homeland between 1947 ...
NPR

After Israelis mark their independence, Palestinians recall their displacement

After Israel marked its 76th Independence Day, Palestinians mourn what they call the 'Nakba," or Catastrophe, amid increasing death and displacement in Gaza.We hear voices from the West Bank. This ...

'Grotesque distortion': Israel rebukes Norwegian Holocaust Center’s Nakba-Holocaust events

The embassy called for the planned events to be canceled immediately and asked the center to return to its core mission: ...
Yahoo

What was the Nakba? And why does 1948 matter so much to Palestinians and Israelis?

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 1948 Palestinian exodus Nakba Pictures From History/Universal Images Group via Getty Images On May 18, a photo of two Israeli ...
Israel Today

Holocaust center in Oslo sparks outrage over ‘Nakba’ lecture

The center, which was created with reparations money over Norway’s complicity, plans to host a scholar who decried Western ...
Yahoo

Palestinians mark 1948 Nakba in the shadow of war in Gaza

GAZA/JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Palestinians commemorated the 1948 "Nakba" or catastrophe, on Wednesday, marking the time when hundreds of thousands were dispossessed of their homes in the war at the birth ...
Democracy Now

“A Racist, Criminal Project”: Palestinian Historian on 1948 Nakba, Israel’s War on Gaza & U.S. Complicity

Palestinians across the globe are marking the 76th anniversary of the Nakba — which means “catastrophe” in Arabic — when those establishing the state of Israel violently expelled over 700,000 ...
AOL

Protests around the world commemorate 76th anniversary of the Nakba and call for a cease-fire in Gaza

Protests commemorating the upcoming 76th anniversary of the Nakba and calling for a cease-fire in Gaza were seen around the world this weekend. This year, the Nakba anniversary comes amid Israel's war ...
Hebdo Ahram

Remembering the Nakba: ‘A conflict of narratives’

History has been unethically manipulated to align with the Zionist narrative, both preceding and following the 1948 Palestinian Nakba, stated Atef Abu Seif, a Palestinian author and minister of ...
The Forward

Marking Nakba Day is controversial in Israel. These Israelis and Palestinians did it together.

(JTA) — BEIT JALA, West Bank — Sitting in a secluded West Bank forest, listening to the account of an elderly Palestinian displaced from his home during Israel’s War of Independence, Kate Kaufman ...
Democracy Now

“Toward Nakba as a Legal Concept”: Meet the Palestinian Lawyer Censored by Columbia and Harvard

The website of the Columbia Law Review was taken down by its board of directors on Monday after student editors refused a request from the board to halt the publication of an academic article written ...