Tag Archives: Nakba

By Philip Weiss- MONDOWEISS Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen says that the Palestinians are to blame for the Nakba, the ethnic cleansing of Palestine in 1948 in which 750,000 Palestinians were expelled by or fled Zionist militias and were never allowed to return. In his new book Israel: Is It Good for the Jews? Cohen says that by resisting the Zionist movement …

Israeli soldiers shot two Palestinians in a Nakba day demonstration near Ramallah in West Bank. The Palestinians, twenty-year-old Musaab Nuwarah and seventeen-year-old Mohammed Udeh, died of their wounds in a Ramallah hospital on Thursday. The Palestinians were shot in the chest by Israeli Border Police forces during a demonstration held on Nakba, literally translating to catastrophe, remembering the day of …

10,000 Arab Israelis on Tuesday rallied in northern Israel to demand the right to return for all Palestinian refugees. The rally took place in the village Lavi, built on the wreckage of the Palestinian village Lubya, which was, until 1948, home to 2,726 Palestinians. During the Arab Israeli conflict in 1948  about 400-500 Palestinian villages were depopulated, destroyed, occupied and …

Israeli organization Zochrot will release the I-Nakba phone app on the eve of Israel’s Independence Day, on 5th May at 20:00. Nakba, the Arabic word for “catastrophe”, will let users of the app locate any Arab village abandoned in the 1948 war on an interactive map, add comments, photos, and data and learn about the history of the village, including …