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.

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

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

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


Palestinianism: The global Intifada - opinion

Palestinianism denies the historical fact that is Eretz Yisrael, and denies the right of the Jewish people to re-establish a state there.

'Long live the Intifada': Palestinians and pro-Palestinian supporters protest against Israeli attacks on Gaza amid days of conflict between the two sides, in Brooklyn, New York, US, May 15, 2021.

The 'Nakba' - catastrophe or success? - comment

Today, Palestinians and their apologists worldwide should stop to consider these realities and face up to the fact that the Nakba describes their failure, not Israel’s success.

 A PALESTINIAN girl takes part in a rally marking the 74th anniversary of the Nakba, in Ramallah, May 15.

Letters to the Editor May 23, 2022: Purview of the justice system

Readers of The Jerusalem Post have their say.

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The Nakba, the flag and responsibility - opinion

I have experienced first-hand the rage of the Israel Police to the site of the Palestinian flag at demonstrations in which I have participated in Sheikh Jarrah.

PROTESTERS HOLD a giant Palestinian flag in Khan Yunis, Gaza Strip.

'Nakba recognition' resolution submitted by Rashida Tlaib, 'squad'

The bill calls to establish an official means for the US to recognize and remember the Nakba —The establishment of Israel and the exodus of Palestinians caused by the 1948 War of Independence.

 ‘THE SQUAD’ – US Reps. Ayanna Pressley (from left), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib hold a news conference on Capitol Hill in 2019

On 'Nakba,' Abbas vows to continue payments to prisoners and 'martyrs'

Nakba day marks the anniversary of the establishment of Israel as a day of catastrophe.

 Palestinian Authority President Mahmud Abbas speaks during a meeting with journalists in the West Bank cityof Ramallah on July 03, 2019.

Letters to the editor April 6, 2022: Sensitivity to the homebound

Readers of The Jerusalem Post have their say.

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Israel: UNHRC's new investigator has compared Nakba to Holocaust

Francesca Albanese has compared "the Holocaust to the Nakba, and advocates for the de-facto destruction of the Nation-State of the Jewish People,” Eilon Shahar said.

 Israeli Ambassador to UN Institutions in Geneva Meirav Eilon Shahar

Letters to the Editor December 22, 2021: Nonstarter

Readers of The Jerusalem Post have their say.

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Israel must change its attitude toward the Nakba - comment

In the Palestinian narrative, the Nakba ('The Catastrophe') marks the departure/escape/expulsion of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from the territory of the State of Israel.

A woman holds a Palestinian flag during a protest marking the 71st anniversary of the ‘Nakba’ at the Israel-Gaza border fence in 2019.