Nakba

In other words, the day which could have signaled the dawn of a Palestinian Arab state 70 years ago is now misrepresented as the start of an Israeli campaign of ethnic cleansing.

In 2009 a leading historian described the academic Simon Rawidowicz as “a probing critic of Zionism without being anti-Zionist.”

Palestinian demonstrators and Israeli security forces got into clashes in the West Bank on Monday as demonstrations marking 'Nakba Day' continued to escalate.

Here are five facts about the annual commemoration by Palestinians of the 'catastrophe' of the establishment of the State of Israel.

The point I was trying to make last week was not that we are evil, but that we are not saints, that our hands are not always clean, and that it is high time that we stopped denying these facts.

Historians, Jewish or otherwise, should be able to understand Zionism as the national liberation movement of the Jewish people and stop denying Israel’s right to exist.

Shavuot falls on the 75th anniversary of the cruel and bloody riots against the small Jewish community in Iraq.

The heatwave was weighing on people and many shops were closed because Sunday is a Christian day off.

Joint List head Ayman Odeh (Hadash) said, 'The Nakba is our tragedy, 531 villages were destroyed, entire families lost everything.'

In Bethlehem, Palestinians commemorated the Nakba by creating a special "Return train." The black-painted train was decorated with slogans such as "return is our right and our will."