Nakba

Why deradicalizing Gaza’s youth will be the hardest battle - opinion

“All Jews are sh**...” “I want to be ‘shaheed’ [martyr] next week,” and “Hitler is the best,” reads an exercise book found by the IDF in Gaza during the war.

|ByIAN LLOYD NEUBAUER
UNRWA COMMISSIONER-GENERAL Philippe Lazzarini speaks in Cairo in September. He had claimed that UNRWA didn’t know what was ‘under its headquarters,’ and fired a handful of terrorists, but it wasn’t just a few bad apples, says the writer.
People rally to mark the one year anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada on February 24, 2023.

Jewish group urges halt to ‘Nakba’ exhibit at Canadian Museum of Human Rights

Introducing the exhibit just two years after the October 7 Hamas attacks "raises further alarm," says AGPI, warning the display risks emboldening extremist rhetoric.

|ByTHE MEDIA LINE STAFF
An UNRWA photo of Palestinians having an open-air school in Jericho after what they have dubbed the Nakba.

Britain created the first wave of Arab refugees from Palestine

The Palestinian disaster as dispossessed, stateless refugees precedes the founding of Israel by more than two decades and can be blamed on Perfidious Albion (aka the UK) rather than the Jewish state.

|ByGIL ZOHAR
THEN-US PRESIDENT Joe Biden is joined by President Isaac Herzog and then-prime minister Yair Lapid at Yad Vashem in 2022. Israel ferries foreign officials to the Hall of Remembrance instead of focusing on the Jewish connection to the land, says the writer.

Politicizing the Holocaust: It has come back to bite Israel - opinion

Instead of politicizing the Holocaust, Israel should have focused its efforts on demonstrating the Jewish historical connection to the land.

|ByJULIAN WOOD

Former IDF official: For every person killed on October 7, '50 Palestinians need to die'

"They need a Nakba from time to time to feel the price," former IDF Military Intelligence Directorate chief Aharon Haliva said.

AUGUST 16, 2025ByMAARIV, JERUSALEM POST STAFF
Responsible: IDF intelligence chief Maj. Gen. Aharon Haliva.

Five points for the Nakba: PA involved in contest for creation of Palestinian-biased Wiki articles

Wiki Palestine, the organizing body, was launched by the Palestinian Authority, raising concerns of direct governmental involvement in the popular online encyclopedia.

MAY 22, 2025ByOHAD MERLIN
The Third Palestine Competition on Wikipedia Arabic.

Palestinians in the West Bank still have time to prevent a second Nakba - opinion

There is still time to change course and prevent a second Nakba.

MAY 20, 2025ByYISRAEL MEDAD
A WOMAN holds a placard that reads: ‘Palestine belongs to Palestinians; we will never leave,’ at a protest marking the 77th anniversary of the ‘Nakba’ in Hebron last week.

'Trying to intimidate us': Hebrew U, TAU hit back at Kisch's call for funding cuts over Nakba event

Both the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Tel Aviv University condemned Kisch's call to cut funding to their institutions.

MAY 13, 2025ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Demonstrators protest calling to end the war in Gaza while others demonstrate in favor of continuing the fighting, at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem on May 12, 2025.

Pro-Palestinian shift: Expanding the Trump plan to 1948 refugees - opinion

Thanks to UNWRA, many descendants of Palestinians displaced in 1948 are still refugees throughout the Middle East.

MAY 6, 2025ByGOL KALEV
PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY President Mahmoud Abbas holds up maps of the Palestinian compromise, addressing the UN Security Council, in 2020. But after the 1947 Partition Plan, local Arab leaders encouraged Palestinian Arabs to flee, says the writer.

Trump should reject the long-accepted Palestinian narrative on indigeneity, refugeehood - opinion

After Trump’s bombshell remark concerning Gaza’s future, the next logical step for President Trump is to confront the half-truths and outright falsehoods of the Palestinian narrative.

MARCH 22, 2025ByERIC R. MANDEL
An illustrative image of US President Donald Trump superimposed over displaced Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.

‘It didn’t start one year ago’: Amnesty International release statement for anniversary of Oct.7

Amnesty International UK's video accused Israel of enacting apartheid, called for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza “and also an end to 76 years of displacement, discrimination and devastation.”

OCTOBER 8, 2024ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
The logo of Amnesty International is seen next to director of Mujeres En Linea Luisa Kislinger, during a news conference to announce the results of an investigation into humans rights abuses committed in Venezuela during protests against President Nicolas Maduro in Caracas, Venezuela February 20, 2

The complexity of Israel's hostage predicament: balancing humanity and national security - opinion

As Israel grapples with the aftermath of October 7, the ethical and strategic dilemmas surrounding hostage negotiations intensify, raising real questions about balancing lives and national security.

JULY 25, 2024ByYISRAEL MEDAD
Hostages who were abducted by Hamas on October 7 are escorted by the International Red Cross, as part of a hostages-prisoners swap with Israel on November 30. The Red Cross has been notably negligent in its mission, the writer charges.

Protest held by Arab Israelis, left-wing activists on Nakba anniversary at Tel Aviv University

While demonstrators were barred from bringing Palestinian flags, photos taken at the protest saw activists carrying paper cutouts of watermelons.

MAY 15, 2024ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Arab-Israelis and Israeli left wing activists attend a rally marking the Nakba anniversary at Tel Aviv University on May 15, 2024

Petition challenges addition of Nakba to Canadian school curriculum

The 2024 BCTF AGM document on resolutions said that the teachers needed these events explicitly included in the curriculum for when the topics arose in the classroom.

MARCH 28, 2024ByMICHAEL STARR
Protesters hold an effigy of Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau during a rally to call for a ceasefire, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas in Gaza, on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada March 9, 2024.

Netanyahu tells gov't to be sensitive after minister calls war '2023 Nakba'

Netanyahu's warning came the day after Agriculture Minister Avi Dichter said that Israel's war with Hamas was the "2023 Gaza Nakba" during an interview.

NOVEMBER 12, 2023ByARIELLA MARSDEN
PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu attends a news conference in Tel Aviv last month.