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NYC politics
fromTimesofisrael
1 week ago

The Blogs: The Politics of "Nakba:" Why Mamdani's Rhetoric Matters

“Nakba” is used as shorthand to claim Israel’s creation was illegitimate, not merely to describe refugee suffering.
fromThe Art Newspaper - International art news and events
6 days ago

Israeli organisation threatens legal action against Canadian Museum for Human Rights over Palestine exhibition

On its website, the Tel Aviv-based Shurat Hadin describes itself as a "unique and innovative activist organisation that has chartered a powerful new dimension to pro-Israel advocacy". It announced on 15 May that it had sent a legal letter to the museum's board of trustees and senior leadership regarding the upcoming exhibition, calling for it to be paused in order to conduct an "independent legal and scholarly review".
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Left-wing politics
fromwww.aljazeera.com
1 week ago

Historical reckoning: The push for the US to acknowledge the Nakba

The US cannot create just Middle East policy without acknowledging the Nakba and Palestinian history, because selective recognition forces ignoring historical realities.
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World politics
fromwww.aljazeera.com
1 week ago

Millions of Palestinians mark 78 years since the Nakba

Nakba commemorations mark Palestinian displacement in 1948 and demand justice, self-determination, and the right of return for refugees.
Film
fromThe New Yorker
4 months ago

In Two Films About Palestinian Struggle, Time Is of the Essence

Medical emergencies create agonizing moral conundrums for characters in All That's Left of You and The Voice of Hind Rajab.
fromItsnicethat
5 months ago

An exhibition of Palestinian photographers visualises the lasting significance of 'land'

The exhibition centres on the deep, irrevocable relationship between Palestinian people and their homeland and features the work of eight image makers: Adam Rouhana, Maen Hammad, Jenna Masoud, Samar Hazboun, Kholood Eid, Sakir Khader, Zach Hussein and Dean Majd. The exhibition has been curated by the British-Iraqi writer and editor Dalia Al-Dujaili, who was invited by Gola Gallery to work on the show as a gesture of solidarity with the Palestinian people.
Arts
World politics
fromwww.aljazeera.com
6 months ago

Israel can't fly us all out to South Africa

Israeli authorities and local intermediaries have organized paid deportation flights to remove Palestinians from Gaza, continuing a long history of displacement and ethnic cleansing.
World news
fromwww.theguardian.com
7 months ago

From Apartheid to Democracy a blueprint' for a different future in Israel-Palestine

The Gaza conflict since October 7, 2023 constitutes an interregnum—a 'time of monsters'—necessitating fundamental transformation beyond apartheid, occupation, or expulsion.
World news
fromwww.aljazeera.com
7 months ago

Has another Nakba been averted?

Tens of thousands of Palestinians returned to northern Gaza under a ceasefire right of return, but the land is unrecognisable and rebuilding will be difficult.
fromwww.aljazeera.com
7 months ago

What Israeli settler encroachment, intimidation look like in the West Bank

Every time Yinon Levi returns to Umm al-Khair, where videos and witness testimonies implicate him in the murder of Awdah Hathaleen, anger stirs within the community. Seeking to prevent further arrests or violence, village leaders urge people to hide in their homes. But Levi's appearance leaves villagers, who have long faced home demolitions by Israeli authorities and attacks from Israeli settlers that have intensified since the war in Gaza started, afraid and seething.
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