The Nakba, commemorated annually on this day as “Nakba Day”, was the destruction of Palestinian society and homeland in 1948 following Israel’s creation. Nakba Day protests take place around the world and have been attacked by Israel.
The foundational events of the Nakba took place during and shortly after the 1947-1949 Palestine war, including 78% of Mandatory Palestine being declared as Israel, the exodus of 700,000 Palestinians, the depopulation and destruction of over 500 Palestinian villages and subsequent geographical erasure, the denial of the Palestinian right of return, and the creation of permanent, stateless Palestinian refugees.
Although May 15th had been used as an unofficial commemoration of the Nakba since 1949, Nakba Day was formalized in 1998 after Yasser Arafat proposed that Palestinians should mark the 50th anniversary of the Nakba during the First Intifada.
The Nakba was a key event in the development of Palestinian culture and is a foundational symbol of Palestinian identity, along with “Handala”, a ten-year old cartoon character developed by Naji al-Ali; the keffiyeh, a checkered black and white scarf worn around the head; and the “symbolic key” (many Palestinian refugees have kept the keys to the homes they were forced to flee).
On Nakba Day 2011, Palestinians and other Arabs from the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, Lebanon, and Syria marched towards their respective borders, or ceasefire lines and checkpoints in Israeli-occupied territories, to mark the event. At least twelve Palestinians and supporters were killed and hundreds wounded as a result of shootings by the Israeli Army.
“In resisting the Nakba, the Palestinians have struck at the heart of the Zionist project that insists that the Nakba be seen as a past event. In resisting Israel, Palestinians have forced the world to witness the Nakba as present action; one that, contrary to Zionist wisdom, is indeed reversible.” - Palestinian scholar Joseph Massad
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Al-Nakba: The Palestinian catastrophe - Episode 1 | Featured Documentary
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Farha (2021) internationally co-produced historical drama film about a Palestinian girl’s coming-of-age experience during the Nakba, the 1948 displacement of Palestinians from their homeland. Its on Netflix
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The History of “Socialist” Zionism | Leftist Zionists did the Nakba & founded Israel
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It offends me on so many diffrent levels. Like. It is hard to pick one. The fact that it is conspicuous consumption based on the preferences of dead people that only vaguely triggers the nostalgia of even worse slightly less dead people.
It’s real weird shit. I was around for Beanie Babies. People genuinely, absolutely believed that cheap polyester toys stuffed with plastic pellets were going to be worth huge sums of money decades later. The same kind of thing we saw with crypto and NFTs. Folks buying “rare” mass produced cheap sweat shop plastic and making it their hope for the future. Marx would have loved it.
That picture of the divorcing couple kneeling on the floor of the courtroom dividing their collectible beanie babies is a classic
That was so weird. I don’t even know how that idea got into anyone’s head, much less like hundreds of thousands of people’s heads. But I’m sure capitalists spending tens of millions of dollars on controlling people’s thoughts had something to do with it.
“Collectables” were a whole thing on cable TV and late night TV, and I guess there’d be adds in them in the back of magazines too. Like “Blah blah blah this will appreciate in value pass it on to your children once in a lifetime chance at a special discount” stuff. And all I can figure is, people without much understanding of economics and finance stuff, they get bombarded with this for years, I guess they believe it?