The Nakba, commemorated annually on this day as “Nakba Day”, was the destruction of Palestinian society and homeland in 1948 following Israel’s creation. Nakba Day protests take place around the world and have been attacked by Israel.
The foundational events of the Nakba took place during and shortly after the 1947-1949 Palestine war, including 78% of Mandatory Palestine being declared as Israel, the exodus of 700,000 Palestinians, the depopulation and destruction of over 500 Palestinian villages and subsequent geographical erasure, the denial of the Palestinian right of return, and the creation of permanent, stateless Palestinian refugees.
Although May 15th had been used as an unofficial commemoration of the Nakba since 1949, Nakba Day was formalized in 1998 after Yasser Arafat proposed that Palestinians should mark the 50th anniversary of the Nakba during the First Intifada.
The Nakba was a key event in the development of Palestinian culture and is a foundational symbol of Palestinian identity, along with “Handala”, a ten-year old cartoon character developed by Naji al-Ali; the keffiyeh, a checkered black and white scarf worn around the head; and the “symbolic key” (many Palestinian refugees have kept the keys to the homes they were forced to flee).
On Nakba Day 2011, Palestinians and other Arabs from the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, Lebanon, and Syria marched towards their respective borders, or ceasefire lines and checkpoints in Israeli-occupied territories, to mark the event. At least twelve Palestinians and supporters were killed and hundreds wounded as a result of shootings by the Israeli Army.
“In resisting the Nakba, the Palestinians have struck at the heart of the Zionist project that insists that the Nakba be seen as a past event. In resisting Israel, Palestinians have forced the world to witness the Nakba as present action; one that, contrary to Zionist wisdom, is indeed reversible.” - Palestinian scholar Joseph Massad
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Al-Nakba: The Palestinian catastrophe - Episode 1 | Featured Documentary
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Farha (2021) internationally co-produced historical drama film about a Palestinian girl’s coming-of-age experience during the Nakba, the 1948 displacement of Palestinians from their homeland. Its on Netflix
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The History of “Socialist” Zionism | Leftist Zionists did the Nakba & founded Israel
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Reddit personified, CGP Grey, once made a video arguing that an ideal work week would make Wednesday a standard day off in place of Saturday. So you would work two days, have one day off, work three days, have Sunday off, etc.
As someone who has been working this type of schedule for a few months I can confirm this is absolute shit.
Me, (a social democrat at the time,) listening to “Love Me, I’m a Liberal” back in 2014.
love rugged individualism, love how my partner has to give up her whole life in her mid-late 20s to be a carer full time for her mom bc this fuck ass country can’t provide any kind of care for the poor
“With the usual stipulations about polls six months out, Biden is behind,” said Jim Kessler, co-founder of the left-leaning think tank Third Way. “They need to be in a better place on the border, crime and inflation to win. They have a story to tell on each and further actions they can take, but they need to get cracking.”
Really makes you think!
Had a run-in with a guy who said that the reason Europeans were willing to colonize the Earth and destroy the environment was because “they started worshiping greed instead of god” and touted theocracy as a solution.
When I pointed out that
CW: Homophobia
Me and many of my friends are LGBT in the US and we would probably be killed in a theocracy
His response was “Actually, if you read the whole Bible, it doesn’t support that [so presumably, you’d be fine.]”
Ask him to explain how Christian residential schools in Canada and Australia were not acts of colonialism.
He stopped responding to me when I brought up the campaign our current crop of theocrats is waging against trans people (while also doing a shitload of environmental destruction and colonialism), or I would have. I linked the inciting article here, so feel free to bring it up yourself if you like.
Bruh doesn’t know that the church frequently collaborated with or spearheaded colonisation efforts???