Nakba
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Israel calls the Nakba a lie. So why do its leaders threaten a second one?
Ex-government minister’s recent warning to Palestinian flag-wavers of another forced expulsion exposes the lie at the heart of Israel’s founding Continue reading
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Candidates to replace Corbyn denounce him as anti-Semitic
Emily Thornberry posted – but later deleted – a shamelessly anti-Palestinian tweet that same night. The posting clearly implied it was “anti-Semitic” for Labour conference delegates to fly Palestinian flags. Continue reading
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During Protests in Commemoration of 71st Anniversary of Palestinian Nakbah: Israeli Forces Wound 144 Civilians
On Wednesday, 15 May 2019, Israeli forces wounded 144 Palestinian civilians, including 49 children, 4 women, and 1 paramedic, in excessive use of force against the peaceful participants in the protests organized in commemoration of the 71st anniversary of the Palestinian Nakbah. Continue reading
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The Zionist Idea Has Never Been More Terrifying than It Is Today By Rima Najjar
Whether you believe the American rabbi and historian Arthur Hertzberg’s assessment of the Zionist idea as “unprecedented … an essential dialogue between the Jew and the nations of the earth”, rather than a matter between Jews and God, or you believe the assessment of Ass’ad Razzouk, researcher and contributor to the PLO Research Center’s 1970 Arabic… Continue reading
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Finkelstein: Where’s the Solidarity for Gaza? (2/3)
In part two, Norman Finkelstein says that while Palestinian protesters in Gaza have bravely resisted their ghettoization under merciless Israeli fire, international solidarity is falling short Continue reading
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Finkelstein: Where’s the Solidarity for Gaza? (2/3)
In part two, Norman Finkelstein says that while Palestinian protesters in Gaza have bravely resisted their ghettoization under merciless Israeli fire, international solidarity is falling short Continue reading
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Video: New video shows Palestinian youths killed by Israeli army on Nakba Day posed no threat to soldiers By Allison Deger
Video of the two Palestinians killed last Thursday at an annual Nakba Day protest outside of Ofer prison show the youths did not pose a threat to life to Israeli soldiers. And a photo set reveals one medic was shot in the head while aiding a wounded youth. Continue reading
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West Funds Insurgencies By Felicity Arbuthnot
Thursday, May 15 marked Nakba Day, Yawm an-Nakba, “Day of Catastrophe”, the onset of the displacement of up to 800,000 Palestinians, at the time 67% of the population, followed by the destruction of over 500 villages since the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, under the commitment agreed to by the then British… Continue reading
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Palestine: Lessons in desert blooming By Jimmy Johnson
Palestinian Member of Knesset (MK) Hana Sweid lifted his voice against the Prawer Plan during a 9 December Knesset Interior Committee meeting. In response to Israel’s planned removal of up to forty-thousand Bedouin from their Naqab lands he protested that, “You want to transfer an entire population.” Likud MK and former IDFA spokesperson Miri Regev… Continue reading
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Israeli government is planning the largest single attempt at the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians since the 1948 Nakba
The Begin-Prawer Plan, which is the name of the law calling for the mass relocation of the Bedouin, passed its first reading in the Israeli Knesset on Wednesday, June 23. If the law is fully passed and implemented, it will mean the destruction of up to 40 Bedouin villages. Over the ruins of these villages,… Continue reading
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6.8 million Palestinian refugees and counting – Towards a popular strategy for resisting forcible displacement
Following World Refugee Day, June 20th, 2013 the central issue to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict continues to be the mass displacement of Palestinians. The creation of refugees, currently 6.8 million, and refusing their Right of Return is a main component of the ongoing Nakba. The violent uprooting of Palestinians from their homeland was waged in an… Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 21 May 2013: Israeli archive file shows that Israel’s founder tried to erase Palestinian Nakba
21 May 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterPPP Slams Arrest Of Five Of Its Members By P.A. ForcesIMEMC – Tuesday May 21 2013; the leftist Palestinian People Party (PPP) issued a statement condemning the arrest of five of its members by the Palestinian Security Forces in the northern West Bank city of Tulkarem. Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 17 May 2013
17 May 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center17 Palestinians Injured In The Al-Arroub Refugee CampIMEMC – Friday, May 17, 2013; Palestinian medical sources reported that 17 Palestinians have been injured by rubber-coated metal bullets and gas bombs fired by Israeli soldiers invading the Al-Arroub refugee camp, north of the southern West Bank city of Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 15 May 2013: Nakba survivor: ’If you wanted to live, you left
15 May 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterClashes, Injuries, Reported In HebronIMEMC – Palestinian medical sources reported that dozens of Palestinians have been injured during clashes that took place with Israeli soldiers in Kharsa village, south of the southern West Bank city of Hebron. Israeli army sources said that four soldiers have been injured. Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 14 May 2013: Gaza: a Lie Agreed Upon
14 May 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterBarghouthi: “Right Of Return, A Sacred Right”IMEMC – In a statement released from his prison cell, detained Palestinian political leader, Marwan Barghouthi, stated that May 15, marks the 65th anniversary of the Nakba, when Israel was established in the historic land of Palestine, over the ruins Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 30 December 2011: Shocking Nakba Testimony by Former Israeli Palmach Fighter
30 December 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Israel Closes Karm Abu Salem Crossing IMEMC – Israeli authorities temporarily close the Karm Abu Salem Crossing with the Gaza Strip, Palestinian Security sources reported on Friday. The border crossing will re-open on Sunday. … Continue reading
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Gilad Atzmon: Being in Time
A talk given at the ‘Palestine, Israel, Germany- The Boundaries of Open Discussion Conference’, Freiburg 11th September 2011 Continue reading
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Update from the Electronic Intifada 25 July 2011: Oslo horror | Israeli left’s belated awakening | Gaza women | Nakba Day eyewitness | Women prisoners
25 July 2011 — Electronic Intifada RECENT BLOG POSTS ON THE ELECTRONIC INTIFADA: Norway suspect laid out detailed plans for violence against “traitors,” Muslims http://electronicintifada.net/blog/ali-abunimah/norway-suspect-laid-out-detailed-plans-violence-against-traitors-muslims Continue reading
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A Palestinian State Redeems the U.N.’s Historic Nakba (Catastrophe) By Mohamed Khodr
9 July 2011 — Intifada Palestine This September is the moment of truth for the United Nations Security Council and the U.N. General Assembly, despite the threatened U.S. veto. Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 6 July, 2011: Israel lawmaker ‘narrowly escapes UK arrest warrant’
6 July , 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Spanish flotilla activists occupy embassy in Greece IMEMC – Thursday July 07, 2011 – 02:16, A group of Spanish activists have occupied their country’s embassy in Greece, calling for the release of an aid flotilla to the Gaza Strip. Continue reading
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