In the northwestern deserts of Saudi Arabia, where the Red Sea meets the Gulf of Aqaba and the Sinai peninsula, a new city is being constructed, which, according to its creators, will be a vision of a “new future”. Neom, the brainchild of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, is a multilingual[…]
Haifa, Israel – The city of Haifa sits like a cascading waterfall on the lush green slopes of the Carmel Mountains on the strikingly blue Mediterranean Sea. It is often portrayed by Israeli officials as well as Western and Israeli media as being a hip, modern city and a model of “coexistence” between[…]
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has urged the United Nations to suspend Israel’s membership in the world body unless it ends its aggression against Palestinians and implements UN resolutions establishing separate Israeli and Palestinian states as well as the return of Palestinian refugees. Abbas spoke on Monday during the first official[…]
Shehdeh Taha, 85, has experienced two Nakbas – catastrophes in Arabic – in his lifetime. The first occurred in 1948 when he was 11 years old, as well-armed Zionist militia forcibly expelled 750,000 Palestinians from their lands to establish what is now called Israel. The second occurred in his 85th year, earlier[…]
In response to Shireen Abu Aqleh’s murder by Israeli sniper, protesters today held 55 paper press jackets outside the BBC headquarters in London to represent the 55 journalists killed by Israel since 2000. This was just one of several powerful visual representations of the ongoing Nakba in today’s march for[…]
by Tauhierah Salie The Al Quds Foundation and the MJC will be commemorating Nakbah day on Sunday at the Hifth Academy Hall in Surrey Estate. Nakbah day refers to the ‘great catastrophe’ in the history of Palestine. On the 15th of May 1948, Apartheid Israel declared independence and dispossessed and[…]
Israel’s new Ambassador to the United Kingdom, 42-year-old Tzipi Hotovely has used her first speech during an event organised by the Board of Deputies of British Jews to describe the Nakba as “a very strong and very popular Arab lie.” She added that the displacement of Palestinians since 1948, when[…]
May 15, 1948, is a date inked in infamy for generations of Palestinians who know it as the Nakba, or “the catastrophe”, after the declaration of the state of Israel in Palestine. On Friday, Palestinians mark the Nakba’s 72nd anniversary since the Yishuv, the pre-state Jewish community in Palestine, transformed[…]
The past week marked the 71st anniversary of the Nakba, a commemoration of the catastrophe in which Zionist forces banished 750 000-900 000 Palestinians, destroyed 531 villages, and appropriated the holdings of those who were expelled. The Nakba was a deliberate and systematic crime of ethnic cleansing, committed by Zionist[…]
GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — At least 47 Palestinian protesters were shot and injured with Israeli live ammunition, on Wednesday, during mass protests commemorating the 71st anniversary of Nakba Day or “catastrophe” near the return camps along the eastern borders of the besieged Gaza Strip. Local sources confirmed that thousands of[…]
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