I interviewed a 100-year-old Palestinian man 26 years ago this week when I went to Fawwar Refugee Camp in Nablus to report on the 50th anniversary of the Nakba. He was the embodiment of what Palestinians mean when they say “Existence is resistance.” He was 12 years old when the Ottoman Empire ended, 50 years old when he was forced out of his home in 1948, and had been living in a refugee camp for 50 years. When I met him in 1998, his great grandchildren helped me interview him because he had difficulty hearing. He was a living memorial to Palestinian existence in the face of Israeli brutality, ethnic cleansing, and occupation. I have been thinking of him often—100 years old!—as the numbers of children, babies even, murdered by Israel’s genocide continue to rise. Read these testimonies of Palestinian elders of the Nakba. And know that this is what Israel’s genocide aims to erase: Palestinian existence. Repost from @middleeasteye • Over the years Middle East Eye has spoken to Palestinians who lived through the Nakba, in which some 800,000 Palestinians were forcibly displaced from their homes in 1948. Here’s what a few of them have had to say 🇵🇸👉 #Nakba #PalestinianNakba #1948 #15May
I interviewed a 100-year-old Palestinian man 26 years ago this week when I went to Fawwar Refugee Camp in Nablus to report on the 50th anniversary of the Nakba. He was the embodiment of what Palestinians mean when they say “Existence is resistance.” He was 12 years old when the Ottoman Empire ended, 50 years old when he was forced out of his home in 1948, and had been living in a refugee camp for 50 years. When I met him in 1998, his great grandchildren helped me interview him because he had difficulty hearing. He was a living memorial to Palestinian existence in the face of Israeli brutality, ethnic cleansing, and occupation. I have been thinking of him often—100 years old!—as the numbers of children, babies even, murdered by Israel’s genocide continue to rise. Read these testimonies of Palestinian elders of the Nakba. And know that this is what Israel’s genocide aims to erase: Palestinian existence. Repost from @middleeasteye • Over the years Middle East Eye has spoken to Palestinians who lived through the Nakba, in which some 800,000 Palestinians were forcibly displaced from their homes in 1948. Here’s what a few of them have had to say 🇵🇸👉 #Nakba #PalestinianNakba #1948 #15May
I interviewed a 100-year-old Palestinian man 26 years ago this week when I went to Fawwar Refugee Camp in Nablus to report on the 50th anniversary of the Nakba. He was the embodiment of what Palestinians mean when they say “Existence is resistance.” He was 12 years old when the Ottoman Empire ended, 50 years old when he was forced out of his home in 1948, and had been living in a refugee camp for 50 years. When I met him in 1998, his great grandchildren helped me interview him because he had difficulty hearing. He was a living memorial to Palestinian existence in the face of Israeli brutality, ethnic cleansing, and occupation. I have been thinking of him often—100 years old!—as the numbers of children, babies even, murdered by Israel’s genocide continue to rise. Read these testimonies of Palestinian elders of the Nakba. And know that this is what Israel’s genocide aims to erase: Palestinian existence. Repost from @middleeasteye • Over the years Middle East Eye has spoken to Palestinians who lived through the Nakba, in which some 800,000 Palestinians were forcibly displaced from their homes in 1948. Here’s what a few of them have had to say 🇵🇸👉 #Nakba #PalestinianNakba #1948 #15May
I interviewed a 100-year-old Palestinian man 26 years ago this week when I went to Fawwar Refugee Camp in Nablus to report on the 50th anniversary of the Nakba. He was the embodiment of what Palestinians mean when they say “Existence is resistance.” He was 12 years old when the Ottoman Empire ended, 50 years old when he was forced out of his home in 1948, and had been living in a refugee camp for 50 years. When I met him in 1998, his great grandchildren helped me interview him because he had difficulty hearing. He was a living memorial to Palestinian existence in the face of Israeli brutality, ethnic cleansing, and occupation. I have been thinking of him often—100 years old!—as the numbers of children, babies even, murdered by Israel’s genocide continue to rise. Read these testimonies of Palestinian elders of the Nakba. And know that this is what Israel’s genocide aims to erase: Palestinian existence. Repost from @middleeasteye • Over the years Middle East Eye has spoken to Palestinians who lived through the Nakba, in which some 800,000 Palestinians were forcibly displaced from their homes in 1948. Here’s what a few of them have had to say 🇵🇸👉 #Nakba #PalestinianNakba #1948 #15May
I interviewed a 100-year-old Palestinian man 26 years ago this week when I went to Fawwar Refugee Camp in Nablus to report on the 50th anniversary of the Nakba. He was the embodiment of what Palestinians mean when they say “Existence is resistance.” He was 12 years old when the Ottoman Empire ended, 50 years old when he was forced out of his home in 1948, and had been living in a refugee camp for 50 years. When I met him in 1998, his great grandchildren helped me interview him because he had difficulty hearing. He was a living memorial to Palestinian existence in the face of Israeli brutality, ethnic cleansing, and occupation. I have been thinking of him often—100 years old!—as the numbers of children, babies even, murdered by Israel’s genocide continue to rise. Read these testimonies of Palestinian elders of the Nakba. And know that this is what Israel’s genocide aims to erase: Palestinian existence. Repost from @middleeasteye • Over the years Middle East Eye has spoken to Palestinians who lived through the Nakba, in which some 800,000 Palestinians were forcibly displaced from their homes in 1948. Here’s what a few of them have had to say 🇵🇸👉 #Nakba #PalestinianNakba #1948 #15May
I interviewed a 100-year-old Palestinian man 26 years ago this week when I went to Fawwar Refugee Camp in Nablus to report on the 50th anniversary of the Nakba. He was the embodiment of what Palestinians mean when they say “Existence is resistance.” He was 12 years old when the Ottoman Empire ended, 50 years old when he was forced out of his home in 1948, and had been living in a refugee camp for 50 years. When I met him in 1998, his great grandchildren helped me interview him because he had difficulty hearing. He was a living memorial to Palestinian existence in the face of Israeli brutality, ethnic cleansing, and occupation. I have been thinking of him often—100 years old!—as the numbers of children, babies even, murdered by Israel’s genocide continue to rise. Read these testimonies of Palestinian elders of the Nakba. And know that this is what Israel’s genocide aims to erase: Palestinian existence. Repost from @middleeasteye • Over the years Middle East Eye has spoken to Palestinians who lived through the Nakba, in which some 800,000 Palestinians were forcibly displaced from their homes in 1948. Here’s what a few of them have had to say 🇵🇸👉 #Nakba #PalestinianNakba #1948 #15May
I interviewed a 100-year-old Palestinian man 26 years ago this week when I went to Fawwar Refugee Camp in Nablus to report on the 50th anniversary of the Nakba. He was the embodiment of what Palestinians mean when they say “Existence is resistance.” He was 12 years old when the Ottoman Empire ended, 50 years old when he was forced out of his home in 1948, and had been living in a refugee camp for 50 years. When I met him in 1998, his great grandchildren helped me interview him because he had difficulty hearing. He was a living memorial to Palestinian existence in the face of Israeli brutality, ethnic cleansing, and occupation. I have been thinking of him often—100 years old!—as the numbers of children, babies even, murdered by Israel’s genocide continue to rise. Read these testimonies of Palestinian elders of the Nakba. And know that this is what Israel’s genocide aims to erase: Palestinian existence. Repost from @middleeasteye • Over the years Middle East Eye has spoken to Palestinians who lived through the Nakba, in which some 800,000 Palestinians were forcibly displaced from their homes in 1948. Here’s what a few of them have had to say 🇵🇸👉 #Nakba #PalestinianNakba #1948 #15May
I interviewed a 100-year-old Palestinian man 26 years ago this week when I went to Fawwar Refugee Camp in Nablus to report on the 50th anniversary of the Nakba. He was the embodiment of what Palestinians mean when they say “Existence is resistance.” He was 12 years old when the Ottoman Empire ended, 50 years old when he was forced out of his home in 1948, and had been living in a refugee camp for 50 years. When I met him in 1998, his great grandchildren helped me interview him because he had difficulty hearing. He was a living memorial to Palestinian existence in the face of Israeli brutality, ethnic cleansing, and occupation. I have been thinking of him often—100 years old!—as the numbers of children, babies even, murdered by Israel’s genocide continue to rise. Read these testimonies of Palestinian elders of the Nakba. And know that this is what Israel’s genocide aims to erase: Palestinian existence. Repost from @middleeasteye • Over the years Middle East Eye has spoken to Palestinians who lived through the Nakba, in which some 800,000 Palestinians were forcibly displaced from their homes in 1948. Here’s what a few of them have had to say 🇵🇸👉 #Nakba #PalestinianNakba #1948 #15May
I interviewed a 100-year-old Palestinian man 26 years ago this week when I went to Fawwar Refugee Camp in Nablus to report on the 50th anniversary of the Nakba. He was the embodiment of what Palestinians mean when they say “Existence is resistance.” He was 12 years old when the Ottoman Empire ended, 50 years old when he was forced out of his home in 1948, and had been living in a refugee camp for 50 years. When I met him in 1998, his great grandchildren helped me interview him because he had difficulty hearing. He was a living memorial to Palestinian existence in the face of Israeli brutality, ethnic cleansing, and occupation. I have been thinking of him often—100 years old!—as the numbers of children, babies even, murdered by Israel’s genocide continue to rise. Read these testimonies of Palestinian elders of the Nakba. And know that this is what Israel’s genocide aims to erase: Palestinian existence. Repost from @middleeasteye • Over the years Middle East Eye has spoken to Palestinians who lived through the Nakba, in which some 800,000 Palestinians were forcibly displaced from their homes in 1948. Here’s what a few of them have had to say 🇵🇸👉 #Nakba #PalestinianNakba #1948 #15May
I interviewed a 100-year-old Palestinian man 26 years ago this week when I went to Fawwar Refugee Camp in Nablus to report on the 50th anniversary of the Nakba. He was the embodiment of what Palestinians mean when they say “Existence is resistance.” He was 12 years old when the Ottoman Empire ended, 50 years old when he was forced out of his home in 1948, and had been living in a refugee camp for 50 years. When I met him in 1998, his great grandchildren helped me interview him because he had difficulty hearing. He was a living memorial to Palestinian existence in the face of Israeli brutality, ethnic cleansing, and occupation. I have been thinking of him often—100 years old!—as the numbers of children, babies even, murdered by Israel’s genocide continue to rise. Read these testimonies of Palestinian elders of the Nakba. And know that this is what Israel’s genocide aims to erase: Palestinian existence. Repost from @middleeasteye • Over the years Middle East Eye has spoken to Palestinians who lived through the Nakba, in which some 800,000 Palestinians were forcibly displaced from their homes in 1948. Here’s what a few of them have had to say 🇵🇸👉 #Nakba #PalestinianNakba #1948 #15May
Excerpts from the New Internationalist interview with Leila Khaled, July 2023 See previous post for why I chose this as my contribution to the Nakba Then and Now commemoration in NYC
Excerpts from the New Internationalist interview with Leila Khaled, July 2023 See previous post for why I chose this as my contribution to the Nakba Then and Now commemoration in NYC
Excerpts from the New Internationalist interview with Leila Khaled, July 2023 See previous post for why I chose this as my contribution to the Nakba Then and Now commemoration in NYC
Excerpts from the New Internationalist interview with Leila Khaled, July 2023 See previous post for why I chose this as my contribution to the Nakba Then and Now commemoration in NYC
Excerpts from the New Internationalist interview with Leila Khaled, July 2023 See previous post for why I chose this as my contribution to the Nakba Then and Now commemoration in NYC
For the @warscapes and @thepolisproject readings Nakba Then and Now at @peoplesforumnyc I chose an interview by New Internationalist magazine with Leila Khaled. In this clip, I talk about her and in my next post, I will share screen grabs of the interview. Repost @thepolisproject and @warscapes “I chose the interview with Leila Khaled because it’s a reflection on her time, she’s known as the first woman to have led a hijacking of a plane and I wanted to bring in the feminist element, the resistance elements, the element of violence and the legitimate use of armed struggle as a form of resistance and to include that woman’s voice as part of all those things. Because we must remember that Palestinian feminists and Palestinian female radical activists have been involved in resisting for the longest time.” – @monaeltahawy Powerful words by a powerful voice that refuses to be silent during our event Nakba Then and Now: Refuse Silence, that took place on May 15th, a collaboration between @warscapes and The Polis Project at @peoplesforumnyc Watch the entire recording on our Youtube channel and watch this space for more voices from that evening reminding us that we are not free, until Palestine is free. 🇵🇸✊🏽📢
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“It is our duty to fight for our freedom. It is our duty to win. We must love each other and support each other. We have nothing to lose but our chains,” Assata Shakur,
“I chose the interview with Leila Khaled because it’s a reflection on her time, she’s known as the first woman to have led a hijacking of a plane and I wanted to bring in the feminist element, the resistance elements, the element of violence and the legitimate use of armed struggle as a form of resistance and to include that woman’s voice as part of all those things. Because we must remember that Palestinian feminists and Palestinian female radical activists have been involved in resisting for the longest time.” – @monaeltahawy Powerful words by a powerful voice that refuses to be silent during our event Nakba Then and Now: Refuse Silence, that took place on May 15th, a collaboration between @warscapes and The Polis Project at @peoplesforumnyc Watch the entire recording on our Youtube channel and watch this space for more voices from that evening reminding us that we are not free, until Palestine is free. 🇵🇸✊🏽📢 🎥: @oyetanya
Tonight NYC Honoured to be part of these readings. May 15, NYC: Repost from @warscapes • Join us on May 15th for a night of readings to commemorate 76 years of the Nakba and to stand in solidarity with the Palestinian liberation struggle. Nakba Then and Now: Refuse Silence invites you to raise your voice, amplify the Palestinian resistance, and demand an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. Registration link in bio. Nakba Day marks the devastation of the Palestinian homeland in 1948 through ethnic cleansing and expulsion of a majority of Palestinian people. The Nakba, or the Catastrophe, is commemorated on May 15th of each year through demonstrations, strikes, protests and by memorializing the names of villages that were uprooted or destroyed. Nakba Day is about resisting expulsion and erasure. Today, as we are witnessing another Nakba, the world is also rising up on every continent. We invite you to join in this resistance. We will also be raising funds for the following organizations: The Ghassan Abu Sittah Children’s Fund @dr.ghassan.as UNRWA Gaza Emergency Appeal @unrwa Organized by the Radical Books Collective and The Polis Project.
Tonight NYC: Repost from @theafricacenter • Join The Africa Center on Thursday May 16th at 6:30PM for a special conversation that explores the influential legacy of Kenyan author Binyavanga Wainaina. Mona Eltahawy, Sean Jacons and Anderson Tepper will come together to revisit Wainaina’s body of work, his impact on African literature and reflect on their own perspectives and writing practices, fostering a greater awareness of the power and responsibility that comes with storytelling. The conversation will be moderated by Uzodinma Iweala, CEO of The Africa Center. “How to Write About Africa” is a provocative collection of essays that dismantles stereotypes and challenges conventional narratives about the continent. This posthumous collection offers a compelling and insightful critique, urging readers to reconsider the way Africa is portrayed in literature and media. Register today at the link in bio!
