Al-Nakba
The Nakba is an Arabic term used to describe the ‘catastrophe’ of 1948 when Zionist gangs perpetrated a genocidal assault on the indigenous people of Palestine, causing mass destruction, murder and the forced removal of tens of thousands of Palestinians from their homes and villages. Much of this was hidden from the world but the Palestinian Resistance movement have kept the memory alive by commemorating the Nakba on 15 May and demanding the Right of Return.
Nakba 75
Factsheets
BDS Movement
Ten Facts You Need To Know About The Palestinian Nakba
Palestine Solidarity Campaign – UK
Israel’s ‘Independence’ and Palestine’s catastrophe
The Palestinian Right of Return
Jewish Voice for Peace
Partition and lead-up to violence
Palestinian communities destroyed
Institute for Middle East Understanding
Quick Facts: The Palestinians Nakba
The Nakba and Palestinian Refugees
Al Jazeera
The Nakba did not start or end in 1948
How Britain Destroyed the Palestinian Homeland
Maps & Atlases
Palestine Land Society
Palestine Land Society is an independent non-profit scholarly society dedicated towards research and information-gathering on Palestine, the land and its people. It is founded by Dr. Salman Abu Sitta who has spent decades documenting Palestine’s history, geography, culture, and society.
Also see
Al Jazeera Palestine Remix: Maps – Vanishing Palestine
Infographics
Visualizing Palestine
Visualizing Palestine creates data-driven tools to advance a factual, rights-based narrative of the Palestinian-Israeli issue. Their researchers, designers, technologists, and communications specialists work in partnership with civil society actors to amplify their impact and promote justice and equality.
Also see
Middle East Eye – Nakba Factsheet Graphic
Electronic Intifada / Visualizing Palestine – Ongoing Nakba
The Guardian – The Arab villages lost since Israel’s war of independence – interactive
Video Documentaries
Nakba from a feminist perspective
This program deals with the Nakba from a feminist perspective. The program is hosted by Tammi Molad Hayo and attended by Nahed Sakis, Dr. Safa Aburabia and Rawan Bisharat.
https://youtu.be/H7FML0wzJ6A
Al-Nakba: The Palestinian catastrophe
This is the first episode in a four-part Al-Jazeera documentary series about the history of the Palestinian exodus that led to the first Arab-Israeli war in 1948, and the establishment of the state of Israel.
https://vimeo.com/28922804
Everyday Nakba
Everyday Nakba is an award winning documentary about water. It was filmed and directed by Mohammad al-Azza, who was deliberately shot in the face by an Israeli soldier during a raid on the West Bank.
Poetry
Remi Kanazi – Nakba
Mahmoud Darwish – On This Land
Articles
Yara Hawari
Remembering 72 years of the Nakba in the shadow of annexation
Unearthing occupation: Israel’s archaeological war on Palestinian cultural heritage
Umar Al-Ghubari
What is Martin Luther King’s name doing in the ruins of a Palestinian village?
Catching a train to Beirut after the return of Palestinian refugees
How Israel erases Arabic from the public landscape
Ben White
The Palestinian Nakba goes far beyond one day in 1948
What is Martin Luther King’s name doing in the ruins of a Palestinian village?
Seraj Assi
This Is the Biggest Myth About Israel and the Nakba
Why Kibbutzism Isn’t Socialism
Mohammed El-Kurd
My Grandmother, Icon of Palestinian Resilience
In Every Corner of Palestine, There Is a Story of Dispossession
Paul Hendler
From being a Zionist to becoming and anti-Zionist Jew
The dialectics of Israel’s rights
We shall not perish… Israel’s right to exist
Al-Nakba 74
Nakba 74 Protest
To commemorate the 74th year of Al-Nakba, the SA BDS Coalition held a demonstration outside the Israeli embassy, and also embarked on a motorcade to deliver a memorandum of demands to the South African Department of International Relations and Cooperation.
View the full memorandum here