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WATCH: Israeli tours teach about the Nakba
Some 700,000 Palestinians fled or were expelled from their homes in the 1948 war that led to Israel’s establishment. One organization is taking Israelis to visit the ruins of the abandoned villages, to learn about the Palestinian ‘Nakba,’ or tragedy. Read more about Nakba remembrance: Turning entire Palestinian villages invisible How we learned to forget…
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Social TV
November 23, 2016
The road out of the occupation runs through the Nakba
As long as Israelis deny, distort and repress the expulsion of over 750,000 Palestinians, we will never truly accept and absorb the end of the occupation. It is difficult to find a view in Lifta that isn’t marred by the words ‘death to Arabs’ graffitied in Hebrew on its hollow buildings. Someone even took the…
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Natasha Roth-Rowland
April 11, 2015
Photos of the week: Climbing the wall in Bil’in
This week: Climbing the wall, filling the streets, remembering the Nakba, resisting displacement and saving the chickens.
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Activestills
March 6, 2014
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PHOTOS: Visiting the last standing Nakba village of Lifta
Lifta is one of the few remaining Nakba villages, whose residents were deported or fled during and before the war of 1948. Israel has prevented the Palestinians who left their homes from returning to them and when the war ended, it confiscated their land and property. This week, Activestills documented Palestinian women visiting the site…
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Activestills
March 5, 2014
Stepping over the line by accident: Still possible, ever more disturbing
A stroll west of West Jerusalem can lead to a surprising discovery, confronting the casual walker with various layers of the Palestinian tragedy. I just finished an ordeal at the Knesset. The next thing on the agenda was a long phone call, one that would last for at least an hour. Instead of walking about…
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Yuval Ben-Ami
December 26, 2012
Court nixes building project, saves unique Nakba village
Lifta, the best-kept Palestinian Nakba village was saved on Monday, after a surprising verdict by the Jerusalem District Court canceled a 2004 construction plan to build a luxury housing complex on the site. UPDATE: I have received a message from Bimkom, a non-profit which took part in the effort to save Lifta, explaining that the court decision was to…
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Noam Sheizaf
February 7, 2012
Last-ditch effort to save a unique Palestinian village
Lifta, the best-kept out of handful of remaining Nakba villages, will be demolished to make way for a housing project for affluent Jews The Society for Preservation of Israel Heritage Sites is joining the campaign to save the remaining houses of the Palestinian village Lifta, at the western entrance of modern Jerusalem. Lifta, the best-kept…
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Noam Sheizaf
October 9, 2011
Why Jews need to talk about the Nakba
A personal journey A childhood memory: A group of kids and their teacher on a school trip. They are walking through excavations, listening to explanations from a tour guide about their ancestors who lived there two thousand years ago. After a while, one of the kids points to some ruins between the trees. “Are these…
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Noam Sheizaf
May 14, 2011
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