On May 18, a photo of two Israeli soldiers circulated on social media. They were standing in front of a bullet-riddled house in what appeared to be Gaza. Its wall was spray-painted with the words ...

In Gaza, the boundary marking past and present has become indistinct. Nineteen forty-eight is not over—it is unfolding again, and in more violent and destructive ways. Gaza—Every year on May 15, ...

A man stands amidst destroyed cars at a scrapyard in the town of Huwara near Nablus in the occupied West Bank on February 27, 2023 after they were torched overnight. Photo by JAAFAR ASHTIYEH/AFP via ...

On May 15, 2023, the United Nations will stage a high-level special meeting to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Nakba – the mass displacement of around 750,000 Palestinians from their homeland ...

(RNS) — People who reflexively invoke Israel’s right to exist conflate the right of a nation to exist with the right to oppress. (RNS) — The state of Israel wants you to think it’s a democracy. But ...

Nearly eight decades after the Nakba – the mass displacement of Palestinians that led to the establishment of the state of Israel – its impact continues to shape the lives of millions in Palestine and ...

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The Wikipedia article on the Nakba, which is Arabic for “catastrophe,” describes the events of Israel’s war for independence in 1948 as being “the ethnic cleansing of Palestinian Arabs.” The opening ...

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May 15 marks the commemoration of Nakba Day. The Nakba, which means "the catastrophe" in Arabic, refers to the forcible expulsion of 700,000-800,000 Palestinians from their land in the time leading up ...

Note: I wrote this piece in 2011 marking the 63rd anniversary of the Palestinian "Nakba" or expulsion from their homeland. While little has changed to erase the memory of what was lost, much has ...

I am very partial to Harvard. I went there and met some of the best friends I have ever had. Formal course knowledge and memories of informal activities have been with me for 40 years. Still, I cannot ...