The Nakba Continues: Israel’s Displacement of the Palestinians
Amjad Alqasis* | 16 May 2013
Palestinian refugees (British Mandate of Palestine – 1948). “Making their way from Galilee in October-November 1948″. (Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons) Israeli practices and policies are a combination of apartheid, military occupation, and colonization. Together, they aim to ethnically cleanse the territory of historic Palestine of its indigenous...Fact Sheet: Israeli Independence & the Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
Siham Nuseibeh | 10 Apr 2013
The military blueprint for the ethnic cleansing of Palestine was called Plan Dalet (or Plan D) and was formally approved by the Zionist leadership on March 10, 1948. (Source: http://www.1948.org.uk) The following is a fact sheet from the Institute for Middle East Understanding (IMEU)… Israeli Independence & The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine Total number...The Routine Justifications of Zionism
Yazan Al-Saadi* | 13 Apr 2012
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stands in front of a portrait of Theodore Herzl, the father of modern Zionism. (Photo Credit: Reuters) Daniel Steiman’s response to my article on the One State Solution is rife with arguments and fallacies that pay lip serve to “a just and fair solution” while excusing occupation, colonialism,...Palestine: In Commemoration of Another Massacre
Siham Nuseibeh | 28 Dec 2011
Sixty-three, forty-four, twenty-four, seventeen… Palestine is filled with dates and anniversaries – 63 years since the Nakba, 44 years since the Naksa, or Six-Day War, 24 years since the start of the first Intifada, 17 years since the massacre at the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron. Yesterday marked another anniversary in the Palestinian calendar – the third...The Nakba: 65 Years and Ongoing
Siham Nuseibeh | 15 May 2013
Today is the 65th anniversary of the Nakba, Arabic for “catastrophe”, which saw between 700,000 and 1,000,000 Palestinians expelled from their homes. The Nakba continues to this day as land annexations, house...The Nakba & The Victory of the Palestinian Hunger Strikers: A Day of Mourning, A Day of Celebration
Siham Nuseibeh | 16 May 2012
On May 15, 2012, the 64th anniversary of the Nakba, or Catastrophe, when 700,000 Palestinians were expelled and forced out of their homes by Zionist occupying forces, celebrations rather than mourning took place...MUFTAH BOOK CLUB: Ben White’s “Palestinians in Israel”
| 12 Jan 2012
Muftah’s Book Club features interviews about books we love with the authors who have written them. In this installment, we interview Ben White* on his latest publication on Israel’s Palestinian...
