Nadia Saah is a board member of Jewish Currents. In this moving photo essay, she shares her family’s story of their harrowing experiences during the 1948 Nakba (the Catastrophe). The essay compiles 11 more stories from other Palestinians on the 75th anniversary of the...
The Institute for Middle East Understanding (IMEU) is a non-profit organization that provides facts, analysis, experts, and digital resources about Palestine and Palestinians for journalists. It was founded in 2005 by a group of Americans who were concerned about...
Israeli historian Benny Morris and Israel Prize laureate Benjamin Z. Kedar uncover the story of the secret Cast Thy Bread operation, in which Israeli forces poisoned the drinking water of non-Jewish communities during the Nakba/War of Independence in 1948 to prevent...
Jacob Nammar is a Palestinian author who shares his memories of pre-1948 Palestine and the Nakba in his book Born in Jerusalem, Born Palestinian. In this video, he describes how after his family was expelled from their home and forced into an armed “open prison zone”...
Zochrot, founded in 2002 by Jewish-Israeli activists, is an organization that calls for Israel to recognize the Nakba and Palestinian refugees’ right of return. Zochrot has been instrumental in providing access to information about the Nakba in Hebrew. They launched...
Born in Jerusalem, Born Palestinian (Olive Branch Press) Born in Jerusalem, Born Palestinian is a memoir that shares author Jacob Nammar’s experiences growing up in pre-1948 Jerusalem, being forced out of his family home during the Nakba, and the struggle of living...
Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib made history in 2008 as the first Muslim woman to serve the Michigan Legislature and the first Palestinian American woman elected to Congress. In 2022, Tlaib sponsored H.Res.1123 – Recognizing the Nakba and Palestinian refugees’ rights in...
Interview with Dr. Burhan Ghanayem, Board Chair of Voices for Justice in Palestine Burhan traveled to the Occupied Palestinian West Bank from late September to mid-October 2022. The interview has been edited for clarity. The Interviewer is Rev. J. Mark Davidson,...
The expulsion of Tantura women, children, and elderly from Furaydis to Jordan as the Red Cross supervises June 1948 Courtesy of Israel State Archives from Ben Rothenberg Collection Via Forward.com
“Tantura” is a documentary by Israeli director Alon Schwarz which examines why it is taboo to discuss the Nakba in Israel. Tantura is the name of a Palestinian village in which, one week after the creation of the state of Israel in 1948, Jewish forces massacred more...
Haaaretz journalists Gideon Levy and Alex Levac reported on a West Bank burglary case in 2020 in which a small Palestinian business was repeatedly burglarized by Jewish settlers. Was this burglary motivated by racism? Mohammed Mahmadi, 29, left his restaurant job in...
Curtis Bell, President of Unitarian Universalists for Justice in the Middle East, spoke to the First Unitarian Church’s Department of Social Justice about his two months in Hebron and what he learned about the Palestinian experience under Israeli occupation. Video...
The Graduate and Professional Student Senate (GPSS) at Virginia Tech passed a resolution in October 2021 demanding that the University’s administration enact an academic boycott of Israel and institutions “complicit in maintaining the Israeli occupation.” The...
In 2000, the heads of Jerusalem churches wrote a letter to the leaders at Camp David as they decided the status of Jerusalem. In 2017, these patriarchs once again wrote a letter, but this time it was directed to U.S. President Donald Trump. Jerusalem Christian church...
Controversy fell upon the Temerty Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto in 2022 as debate swirled between accusations of antisemitism and anti-Palestinian racism. A confidential letter—addressed to Acting Dean Patricia Houston and signed by 45 Faculty...