Background | Day-School Conference | All Events | Resources Palestine Solidarity Campaign launched a series of events on 3 May to mark the 68th anniversary of the Palestinians’ loss of their land when the state of Israel was created in 1948. The loss, known by Palestinians as the Nakba or ‘catastrophe’, was a violent dispossession and …
Background | Day-School Conference | All Events | Resources Every year Palestinians mark the Nakba – “catastrophe” in English – when in 1948 around 750,000 Palestinians were forcibly expelled from their homes during the creation of the state of Israel. 500 villages were destroyed in a premediated campaign, and their inhabitants never allowed to return. …
Nakba Week of Action – Saturday 7 to Sunday 15 May 2016 We will not forget – End the Nakba now – Free Palestine! The Nakba (which means “catastrophe” in Arabic) – in 1948 saw Israel forcibly expel around 750.000 Palestinians from their land and destroy hundreds of villages. They have never been allowed to …
Friday 15th May marks the 67th year since the Nakba. That’s 67 years since whole Palestinian villages were razed to the ground, their residents massacred and hundreds of thousands more Palestinians were forced to flee. The Nakba (catastrophe) created 750,000 Palestinian refugees in just a matter of weeks. Today that figure is over 5 million. …