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‘It is All Gone’: Palestine Chronicle Reports from Gaza on Destruction Caused by Israeli Bombs (PHOTOS)
By Palestine Chronicle Staff On Friday, May 12, Israeli warplanes bombed more residential areas in the Gaza Strip, raising the number of Palestinians killed since the start of the Israeli war on Tuesday to […]
Black Palestinian Solidarity: Race and Politics in the Holy Land and the Promised Land
By Dr. M. Reza Behnam On April 25th, President Joe Biden sent a congratulatory message to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the anniversary of what Israel calls its “day of independence.” In it, Biden […]
The Nakba is also Hope: Khan Younis Community Commemorates the Nakba with Art, Bread and Coffee (PHOTOS)
By Palestine Chronicle Staff For Palestinians, the catastrophic destruction of the Palestinian homeland, known as the Nakba, is not simply about mourning what has been lost, and the tragedy that has befallen the Palestinian […]
An Unforgiving, Disrupted Poem for Ursula Von der Leyen
By Hassen Lorgat They made the “desert bloom” Says, the president of doom watered by spilled blood and the sweat of those who ran to safety The homes and bodies of the title deed holders […]
Palestinians Protest Ursula Von Der Leyen’s ‘Racist Trope’
By Palestine Chronicle Staff Palestinians on Wednesday slammed European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen’s congratulatory message to Israel on the occasion of the country’s 75th-year anniversary, which Palestinians consider their Nakba. In a […]
Erasure vs. Sumud: How the Nakba Came to Define the Collective Palestinian Identity
By Ramzy Baroud On May 15, 2023, the Palestinian Nakba will be 75 years old. Palestinians all over the world will commemorate the tragic occasion, known as the ‘Catastrophe’, when nearly 800,000 Palestinians were […]
Using the Right Language: The ‘Incremental Genocide’ of the Palestinians Continues
By Ilan Pappe – The Palestine Chronicle I am writing this op-ed on March 10, 2023. Seventy-five years ago, on this date, the military command of the Zionist leadership publicized Plan Dalet, or Plan […]
Canada Should Not Be Welcoming Nakba Deniers: Protesting Caroline Glick’s Talk in Toronto
By Paul Salvatori In February, I organized a small demonstration to protest a talk that was being given by Israeli Nakba denier Caroline Glick, in Toronto. Unsurprisingly it was being hosted by the Canadian […]
Clashes in Palestinian Refugee Camp in Lebanon after Killing of Fatah Member
Clashes erupted overnight Wednesday in Ain al-Hilweh – the largest of Lebanon’s 12 official Palestinian refugee camps – after a Fatah movement member was killed, Lebanese media reported. The fighting renewed in the early hours […]
Taking the ‘Little Way’ to Organize for Palestine: Contesting an Anti-Palestinian Documentary in Toronto
By Paul Salvatori Recently I organized a demonstration outside a Toronto theatre. It was to protest the screening of a dishonest documentary—First to Stand: The Cases and Causes of Irwin Cotler—taking place inside. The documentary […]
Sheikh Jarrah: Jewish Settlers, Led by City Councilman, Chant ‘We Want Nakba Now’ (VIDEO)
Israeli police assaulted Palestinians in Jerusalem during a solidarity demonstration late on Friday, while standing by as groups of extremist Israelis chanted “We Want Nakba now”, led by a city councilman, The New Arab reported. […]
Imagining Palestine: Cultures of Exile and National Identity – Book Review
By Benay Blend (Imagining Palestine: Cultures of Exile and National Identity, by Tahrir Hamdi, I.B. Tauris, 2022) “The words ‘imagining Palestine,’” writes Tahrir Hamdi, do not refer to a Palestinian people who never existed, but […]
The Nakba Day Triumph: How the UN Is Correcting a Historical Wrong
The next Nakba Day will be officially commemorated by the United Nations General Assembly on May 15, 2023. The decision by the world’s largest democratic institution is significant, if not a game changer. For nearly […]
Farha: The Nakba Through a Screen Door
By Jamil Khader The controversy over Jordanian filmmaker Darin Sallam’s debut film, Farha (Arabic for joy), should not overshadow the artistic ways in which this film treats the traumatic horrors of the Palestinian Nakba. The […]
UN General Assembly Adopts Resolution Commemorating Nakba Day
The UN General Assembly adopted a resolution on Wednesday to mark Nakba Day, which commemorates the forced expulsion of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from their lands in 1948, The New Arab reported. 90 states […]
Israel Angered by Netflix Film Depicting Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
A Netflix film depicting Zionist militias killing or displacing hundreds of thousands of Palestinians during The Nakba (“The Catastrophe”) has caused outrage in Israel, The New Arab reported. The film ‘Farha’, by Jordanian director Darine […]
Palestinians in Jaffa Protest against Israel’s Plans to Evict 1,400 Citizens
Palestinian citizens of Israel staged a protest on Saturday in the Arab city of Jaffa against an Israeli plan to ethnically cleanse 1,400 Arab citizens from the city, the official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported. […]
Children are Entitled to the Truth: Teaching Young People about Palestine in Canadian Schools and Beyond
By Paul Salvatori I was at a Toronto mall Saturday. I help coordinate a weekly talent show there. After one of the talented singers, a girl about 10 years old, performed the MC asked […]
An Australian Setback for the Settler Regime
By Jeremy Salt Two Albaneses made international news in mid-October. One was the Australian Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, whose government withdrew Australia’s recognition of West Jerusalem as the zionist settler state’s capital, declared in 2018 […]
Operation ‘Cast Thy Bread’: Unearthed Documents Reveal Israeli Militias Poisoned Wells during Nakba
Historians have recovered official documentation proving that Israeli militias poisoned wells to prevent expelled Palestinians from returning to their home villages during the Nakba in 1948, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported on Friday. Testimonies regarding […]
‘We are Going to Be Professionals about It’: The Role of Education in the Palestinian Struggle for Justice
By Paul Salvatori Recently I was sifting through an older video of Irwin Cotler, Canada’s Special Envoy on Preserving Holocaust Remembrance and Combatting Antisemitism. I was specifically looking for an observation he makes on […]
Palestine in the Elizabethan Era: Will Britain Atone for Its Sinful Policies
By Ilan Pappe – The Palestine Chronicle While millions of people in Britain and around the world can not stop singing the praises of the late Queen as a paragon of moderation, sensibility, and […]
Newly-Released Documents Shed Light on Israeli Massacre of Palestinians in Kafr Qasem
A series of newly-released documents have revealed fresh details on the premeditated murder of 49 Palestinian civilians at the hands of Israeli forces during the massacre in the village of Kafr Qasem, in October 1956, […]
The Hundred Year War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017
By Jim Miles (The Hundred Year War on Palestine – A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017. Rashid Khalidi. Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company, New York, 2020.) With the writing of “The Hundred […]
Dispersion of Palestinian Sports: A Stumbling Block to Sports Development
By Issam Khalidi Palestinian sports movement is unique in the modern age because no other people have experienced catastrophes, displacement, or dispersal as the Palestinians have. During the years before 1948, this movement was marked […]
The Right of Return to the Fig Tree
By Ilan Pappe – The Palestine Chronicle Raeda Taha is a famous actress who appears on many stages in the Arab world and beyond. Raeda became widely known after she performed her own play, […]
50 Years After His Assassination, Ghassan Kanafani Lives (VIDEO)
By Palestine Chronicle Staff On this day, 50 years ago, Palestinian militant intellectual Ghassan Kanafani, 36, was assassinated by the Israeli Mossad, who planted a bomb in his car in the Lebanese capital, Beirut. […]
US Presbyterian Church Declares Israel ‘Apartheid State’, Designates Nakba Remembrance Day
The US Presbyterian Church voted on Tuesday at its 225th General Assembly to declare Israel an “apartheid state” and designate a Nakba Remembrance Day within their calendars, The New Arab reported. The church claims over […]
No Peace without Justice: On Determining the Future of Palestine
By Benay Blend For the past few weeks there have been several articles by and about liberal Zionists who are attempting to create an image of a kinder, gentler Israeli state. On June 8, for […]
A Journey to June 1967 and Back: On the Fabricated Narratives of Zionism
By Ilan Pappe – The Palestine Chronicle On this 55th anniversary of the June 1967 war, it is worthwhile to refute, once more, the fabrications and myths surrounding this war that helped to immunize […]