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WASHINGTON (05-15) – It has been 74 years since 750,000 Palestinians were forced from their homes and land by Zionist forces on May 15, 1948, during the creation of the state of Israel. The global commemoration of the “Day of Palestinian Struggle” acknowledged each year is always mired in conflict. As such the scheduled Nakba […]
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Nakba-To strive for justice till liberation
May 16th, 2022 
Awake Goy Today is Nakba day—- the day that Palestinians throughout the world remember as the great catastrophe. For it was on the 14th of May 1948 that the illegitimate entity called Israel was formally established on Palestinian land. It was the beginning of the dispossession of the Palestinian people. It has continued for the last 74 […]
Stopping the environmental Nakba
November 4th, 2021 Awake Goy Editor’s Note: The following statement was issued by the Palestine Institute for Biodiversity and Sustainability on the occasion of the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) currently underway in Glasgow, Scotland. Mondoweiss occasionally publishes press releases and statements from organizations in an effort to draw attention to overlooked issues. Statement from the Palestine Institute for Biodiversity and […]
Jerusalem and the continuing Nakba
July 14th, 2021 Awake Goy I am a Palestinian American, born in Jerusalem in 1952, four years after the Palestinian Nakba—the Catastrophe of 1948. My family’s story is part of the story of Israel’s ethnic cleansing of my people. Today, as I see Israel proceeding with its settler colonial project in the Jerusalem neighborhoods of Sheikh Jarrah and Silwan, I […]
Continuing Nakba, continuing resistance
May 21st, 2021 Awake Goy Palestinian activists in diaspora and their supporters have been pushing for decades to bring the message of Palestine to the international community. We stood in 1982, on the same streets and plazas we gather in now, to condemn the Sabra and Shatila massacres; we stood in 2002 when Israel invaded Palestinian cities in the occupied […]
Why we prayed outside the Jewish Federation on Nakba Day
May 20th, 2021 Awake Goy As a married Jewish couple living in South Bend, Indiana, we try to ground our lives in the best values of our tradition. That’s why we participate in our synagogue, why we celebrate the Sabbath, and why we keep a kosher (and vegan) kitchen. It’s also why we both chose to be public school teachers […]
Heavy Israeli Crackdown On Palestinians Marking Nakba Anniversary
May 18th, 2021 Awake Goy Above photo: Palestinian protesters march in the West Bank village of Salem on 15 May 2021 to denounce violence by Israeli forces in recent days. AFP. Protesters also hold funerals for 11 Palestinians killed on Friday by Israeli forces and settlers. Palestinians across the West Bank gathered in large numbers on Saturday to mark the […]
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No Comments »From Nakba to Return: Resisting one more chapter in the ongoing Nakba
May 16th, 2021 Awake Goy Editor’s Note: The following is a statement by Zochrot. Mondoweiss occasionally publishes press releases and statements from organizations in an effort to draw attention to overlooked issues. As we mark the 73rd commemoration day of the Nakba, Palestinians are reliving the events of the Nakba. The killing and destruction will end only when the root of the […]
What is Nakba Day? A brief history
May 15th, 2021 FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda News and Partnerships Life and Culture Columnists and Opinion Haaretz Heb and TheMarker Haaretz.com, the online English edition of Haaretz Newspaper in Israel, gives you breaking news, analyses and opinions about Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish World. © Haaretz Daily Newspaper Ltd. All Rights Reserved Source
Global Resistance: End The Nakba Now!
May 15th, 2021 Awake Goy Above photo: Musa Al-Shaer. The PI declaration of solidarity with the people of Palestine. NOTE: Samidoun is tracking the list of actions in support of Palestinians in its Global Calendar of Resistance. Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network urges all Palestinian, Arab and international supporters of Palestine to escalate their organizing and struggle to confront massacres […]
Palestinians call from Gaza to Jerusalem: All out on Saturday, May 15th to end the ongoing Nakba and the massacre in besieged Gaza!
May 14th, 2021 Awake Goy Take to the streets on Saturday May 15th with a united demand for sanctions and arms embargo on Israel. We Palestinians are facing yet another massacre in besieged Gaza, resisting ethnic cleansing in Jerusalem and the Jordan Valley and rising against oppression in our cities in Historic Palestine. Israel’s military and policing arsenal, is raining […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: besieged, Jerusalem, massacre, nakba, ongoing, Palestinians, saturday No Comments »Joint statement by Palestinians in North America on Nakba Day
May 12th, 2021 Awake Goy Editor’s Note: The following is a statement from 50 organizations across North America calling on Palestinian communities in the diaspora and supporters to join a week of actions in commemoration of the 73rd anniversary of the Nakba, and in protest of the ongoing Nakba in Sheikh Jarrah, Jerusalem, and throughout Palestine. May 15, 2021 As […]
My grandfather’s Nakba
May 7th, 2021 Awake Goy It was my first trip out of Gaza, and my destination was the city of Nablus in the West Bank to pursue my university studies. At the time the Oslo Accords were still somewhat in effect. That allowed Palestinians from Gaza to travel to the West Bank – through Israel – provided they were issued […]
‘Ancestors of Palestinian Liberation’ — a resource for educators and organizers as Nakba Day approaches
May 4th, 2021 Awake Goy With Nakba day quickly approaching on May 15, Palestine Advocacy Project has collaborated with Anemoia Projects to present Ancestors of Palestinian Liberation: a multi-faceted, visual, biographical, and educational tool to incorporate Palestinian histories and realities into our everyday spaces. “This project came from a desire to bring attention to some of the incredible contributions of […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: ancestors, educators, liberation, nakba, organizers, palestinian, resource No Comments »‘It is a Nakba’: Campaign to save Sheikh Jarrah builds momentum as forced displacement looms
April 17th, 2021 Awake Goy In a matter of just two weeks, six Palestinian families, numbering 27 people, will be thrown out of their homes and into the street, and replaced with Israeli settlers. The fate of the families from the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in occupied East Jerusalem is essentially set in stone: an Israeli district court rejected their appeal […]
Israel is recreating the Nakba, without putting Palestinians on trucks
February 25th, 2021 Awake Goy News and Partnerships Life and Culture Columnists and Opinion Haaretz Heb and TheMarker Haaretz.com, the online English edition of Haaretz Newspaper in Israel, gives you breaking news, analyses and opinions about Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish World. © Haaretz Daily Newspaper Ltd. All Rights Reserved Source
Posted in Jewish News Tags: israel, nakba, Palestinians, putting, recreating, trucks, without No Comments »SUNDAY SCREENING: How Britain Created Israel & ‘The Nakba’ (2013)
May 21st, 2018 Awake Goy EDITOR’S NOTE: While 21WIRE has been extremely critical of Al Jazeera’s relentless production of regime change propaganda and extreme bias designed to undermine both Syria and Libya since 2011, the following documentary about Britain’s central role in the foundation of the Zionist Project is both historically accurate and extremely informative. We sincerely wish that the […]
Posted in Jewish New World Order, Jewish News, World News, World Politics Tags: Britain, created, israel, nakba, screening, sunday No Comments »Facing the Past in Montgomery: Beyond the Nakba to historical justice
May 19th, 2018 Awake Goy Rain had fallen the night before in Montgomery, Alabama. We had traveled there to visit the National Memorial for Peace and Justice, an ambitious project by the Equal Justice Initiative to give witness to formerly enslaved Black people terrorized by lynching in the South. By the time we made our way to the newly landscaped […]
Peace begins with Israel ending the Nakba
May 18th, 2018 Awake Goy On Monday, the Trump administration broke with more than 70 years of official US policy and the position of the international community by moving its embassy to Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. As if to rub salt in their wounds, it was be inaugurated the day before Palestinians commemorate the 70th anniversary of the […]
Israel Repurposes Nakba Myths To Justify Monday’s Massacre in Gaza
May 15th, 2018 Awake Goy On Monday and Tuesday, Palestinians commemorate the anniversary of the Nakba, or catastrophe, their mass expulsion and dispossession 70 years ago as the new state of Israel was built on the ruins of their homeland. As a result, most Palestinians were turned into refugees, denied by Israel the right to return to their homes. Tens […]
Posted in World News, World Politics Tags: israel, justify, massacre, monday, myths, nakba, repurposes No Comments »The Nakba: Seventy Years of Oppression, 1948-2018
May 15th, 2018 Awake Goy May 15th marks the 70th anniversary of Israel’s statehood. Palestinians refer to this as the Nakba, the Catastrophe, when more than 700,000 Palestinians left their homes from fear or were forcibly removed by Israelis who took their homes. On this 70th anniversary of the occupation, the people of Gaza have been staging a non-violent demonstration, The […]
Going Underground – Ep 609 Gaza’s fmr Heath Minister on BDS & Nakba Day, The World at the Brink & the Economy of Weapons
May 14th, 2018 Awake Goy Going Underground – Ep 609 Gaza’s fmr Heath Minister on BDS & Nakba Day, The World at the Brink & the Economy of Weapons Going Underground with Afshin Rattansiyoutube.com In this episode, Gaza’s former Heath Minister, Dr Basem Naim, calls this summer’s scheduled breaking of the BDS boycott by Prince William “shameful”. We investigate why […]
Posted in World News, World Politics Tags: brink, going, heath, Minister, nakba, underground, world No Comments »An open letter from a Palestinian refugee to an ex-Irgun terrorist on the 70th year of the Nakba
May 14th, 2018 Awake Goy This open letter from Salman Abu Sitta to Uri Avnery is the latest in an exchange that began in 2014. Mondoweiss published their earlier correspondence here. Uri Avnery is a co-founder of the Israeli “peace bloc” Gush Shalom, a former Knesset member and a journalist. In his youth, he was a member of the paramilitary group […]
Israel repurposes Nakba myths to justify massacre in Gaza
May 14th, 2018 Awake Goy On Monday and Tuesday, Palestinians commemorate the anniversary of the Nakba, or catastrophe, their mass expulsion and dispossession 70 years ago as the new state of Israel was built on the ruins of their homeland. As a result, most Palestinians were turned into refugees, denied by Israel the right to return to their homes. Tens of […]
Christians in South Africa to hold vigil for Palestine To Mark 70th Anniversary Of The NAKBA
May 13th, 2018 Awake Goy Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Join 5,956 other followers Source Article from https://theuglytruth.wordpress.com/2018/05/12/christians-in-south-africa-to-hold-vigil-for-palestine-to-mark-70th-anniversary-of-the-nakba/
Posted in World News, World Politics Tags: Africa, anniversary, christians, nakba, Palestine, south, vigil No Comments »Unearthing Truths: israel, the Nakba, and the Jewish National Fund
May 12th, 2018 Awake Goy One of countless photos of Palestinians fleeing their homes during the Nakba – the Catastrophe – of 1948 when they were forced from their land by the new state of Israel The Forward courageously reminds American Jews of the reality of the Nakba, the slogans and symbols of the Jewish project that enabled mass expulsion […]
Jews Say No! publishes ‘Moving Forward’ to highlight Jewish National Fund role in the Nakba
May 10th, 2018 Awake Goy As Israel recently celebrated its 70th year since its creation, the Palestinian people are commemorating the 70th year of the Nakba (the catastrophe). During Israel’s establishment (1947-1949), 750,000 Palestinian were expelled from their lands and their homes. We at Jews Say No! began thinking about what we could do to bring this issue more centrally […]
Posted in World News Tags: forward, highlight, Jewish, moving, nakba, national, publishes No Comments »Documenting the Nakba: an interview with poet Dareen Tatour
May 1st, 2018 Awake Goy I visited poet Dareen Tatour, under house arrest at her home in the Arab town of Reineh on April 17, known here as “Palestinian Prisoners Day.” Two and a half years ago Dareen was arrested for publishing a poem, and since then she underwent a trial and is now awaiting the verdict expected on May […]
Their Independence is our Nakba
April 19th, 2018 Awake Goy Today, as Israel celebrates what it calls its Independence Day, indigenous Palestinians who survived the ethnic cleansing of 1947-49 and have been forced to live as second-class citizens of Israel or under its military rule, including in East Jerusalem, will hold marches and vigils to mark what they consider to be the Palestinian “Nakba” or […]
70 Years of Nakba: The Deir Yassin Massacre Sparked 750,000 Palestinians to Flee Their Homes, and the Establishment of the Zionist State
April 10th, 2018 Awake Goy 70 Years of Nakba: The Deir Yassin Massacre Sparked 750,000 Palestinians to Flee Their Homes, and the Establishment of the Zionist State Some memories permeate our very existence and penetrate our collective consciousness for generations. Survivors of al-nakba continue to preserve these indelible memories in every wrinkle lining their faces and in every cell and fragment […]
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