Nakba Day

US Praises Israel, Blocks UN Call for Investigation Into the Killing of 61 Palestinians

(ANTIWAR.COM) — The United States has used its veto power at the UN Security Council to block a Monday resolution calling for an independent probe into the killing of scores of Palestinian protesters this week along the Gaza Strip border. The protesters were killed by Israeli forces. It is very common for the US to use its veto power […]

Israel may force Palestinians to raise Israeli flag on Nakba Day

MEMO | May 10, 2016 Culture and sports centres in Israel, including Arabic institutions, should be made to raise the Israeli flag on Nakba Day, a senior minister has said yesterday. Israeli Culture and Sport Minister Miri Regev instructed the ministry’s Director General Yossi Sharabi to put together an initiative that would see institutions raising […]

The Nakba: Israel’s Catastrophe

Over 700,000 terrified Palestinians stripped of belongings, money, homes, orchards, livestock, land, fleeing massacres by the merciless Jewish militia were forcibly expelled and rendered, for 67 years, stateless refugees packed into 59 ghettos in Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, the West Bank and Gaza: refugees who hold fast to the love of and the keys of their family homes rooted in the ancient genealogical soil of their Palestine.

 
 

At home and abroad, Palestinian Christians are under attack by Israel and its apologists

Image above: Jewish settlers burned this Christian Church in Jerusalem

Non Jewish sites such as mosques, churches, Christian and Muslim graveyards, as well as Palestinian property and land in both in the occupied territories and Israel are routinely targeted, damaged and defaced.

 

“I can coexist with Israelis but only when I return home,” says Nakba survivor

“However, our neighbors could not stop the Israeli militants as they started to burn down one house after another in the village. I don’t remember what happened after that but I remember my mother, my two sisters and I, together with other families, stayed put in the village’s square for two days until the European militants came again and forced us to leave. 

 
 
 

Do not vote for a friend of Israel, Lawson tells Europeans

“…In the name of beleaguered Palestinians and the Syrians or any other people that Israel is determined to dominate or crash, as well as for the sake of your own humanity… in the upcoming European Parliamentary elections, do not vote for a friend of Israel,” Lawson said in a video posted on Intifada Palestine website.