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Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas speaks during a conference to support Jerusalem at the Arab League headquarters in Cairo, Egypt, on Feb. 12, 2023. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil, File)
May 30, 2023, 11:54 pm
Abbas signs decree criminalizing ‘Nakba’ denial
PA executive order says anyone found guilty of denying what it calls the ‘crime against humanity’ carried out by ‘Zionist gangs’ in 1948 faces up to 2 years in jail
By ToI Staff
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Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas speaks at a UN event commemorating the Palestinian 'Nakba,' in New York, May 15, 2023. (Screenshot: UN; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
May 27, 2023, 11:22 pm
Can Zionists Speak about the Nakba?
Is there room for a cautious Zionist exploration of the Palestinian narrative of Nakba (catastrophe)? Donniel Hartman, Yossi Klein Halevi, and Elana Stein Hain discuss.
Key in his lapel, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas addresses a Nakba Day event at the United Nations General Assembly in New York, May 15, 2023 (Ed Jones / AFP)
May 18, 2023, 5:33 am
Ad-libbed at the General Assembly, Mahmoud Abbas’s full-blown rejectionism
Speaking at the UN’s Nakba fest, the PA chief contradicted his previous assurances to Israel. In a reflection of the collapse of negotiation prospects, hardly anyone even noticed
By David Horovitz
The UN General Assembly Fourth Committee votes on measures addressing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict at UN headquarters in New York, November 11, 2022. (AP/Jeenah Moon)
May 14, 2023, 10:12 pm
Israel’s UN envoy urges other diplomats to stay away from Monday ‘Nakba’ event
Erdan claims some already convinced to shun commemoration, which he says promotes ‘Jew-hatred’ and ‘serves to inflame tensions’
By Luke Tress
Democratic Representative Rashida Tlaib of Michigan speaks during a US House Committee on Oversight and Reform hearing on gun violence on Capitol Hill in Washington, June 8, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, Pool)
May 13, 2023, 6:20 pm
Rashida Tlaib says she ‘struggles’ with prospect of uprooting West Bank settlements
Michigan Democrat, a vocal critic of Israel, likens potential evacuation of Israeli communities to Nakba, says Palestinians deserve ‘restorative justice’
By Ron Kampeas
Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee Chair Sen. Bernie Sanders, Independent-Vermont, during the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, May 10, 2023. (Carolyn Kaster/AP)
May 11, 2023, 8:52 am
Bernie Sanders steps in to help Rep. Tlaib hold anti-Israel event in Capitol
Jewish independent lawmaker chairs gathering in Senate committee meeting room to mark Nakba; Tlaib accuses Israel of apartheid, terror, says US aiding ‘ethnic cleansing’
By ToI Staff
Rep. Rashida Tlaib, Democrat of Michigan, speaks during a rail union workers rally near the Capitol in Washington, December 13, 2022. ( Jose Luis Magana/AP)
May 10, 2023, 12:07 pm
House Speaker McCarthy blocks Rashida Tlaib from hosting Capitol anti-Israel event
Republican lawmaker reserves Visitor Center space that Democratic congresswoman wanted to use for Nakba meet, says he will hold celebration of 75 years of US-Israel ties instead
By ToI Staff
Mohammed El-Khatib, a docent at the Museum of the Palestinian People, leads a group of Jewish Agency emissaries through the museum in Washington, D.C., March 22, 2023. (Ron Kampeas/ via JTA)
April 9, 2023, 2:59 am
Israeli emissaries tour a Palestinian museum in DC, come away with questions
One-room Museum of Palestinian People hosts first-ever tour for group of young Israelis, brought by Jewish Agency, many of whom have had few direct encounters with Arabs in Israel
By Ron Kampeas
Illustrative: Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas addresses the 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly at the UN headquarters in New York on September 23, 2022. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images/AFP)
December 1, 2022, 2:52 am
UN General Assembly votes in favor of commemorating Palestinian ‘Nakba’
Pro-Palestinian resolution lamenting Israel’s birth passes 90-30, as Israeli envoy blasts move as a ‘disgrace’ and unveils display about Jewish expulsions from Mideast countries
By Luke Tress
Palestinian and Israeli residents of the coastal city of Jaffa near Tel Aviv, hold a banner as they take part in a rally on May 15, 2021, as Palestinians mark the 73rd anniversary of the Nakba, the "catastrophe" of Israel's creation in 1948 (Ahmad GHARABLI / AFP)
November 11, 2022, 2:21 pm
Controversial ‘Shoah, Nakba’ event at German institute in Tel Aviv cancelled
Goethe-Institut’s panel had earlier been postponed after an outcry that event was being held on anniversary of Kristallnacht
By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff
In Graz, Austria, onlookers watch a smoldering synagogue the morning after Kristallnacht, November 10, 1938 (public domain)
November 8, 2022, 6:51 pm
German institute lashed for Tel Aviv ‘Shoah, Nakba’ event on date of Kristallnacht
Goethe-Institut’s panel postponed as non-profit expresses regret over timing, but not the event itself; Foreign Ministry calls the plan ‘an utter disgrace’
By Lazar Berman
Israeli police forces in Jerusalem, March 30, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
May 15, 2022, 5:50 am
Security forces on heightened alert ahead of Nakba Day commemorations
Amid ongoing terror wave, Hamas has warned of a ‘clash’ as it urged Palestinians to flock to Temple Mount
By ToI Staff
Teddy Katz, as seen in 'Tantura,' directed by Alon Schwarz. (Yonathan Weitzman, courtesy of Reel Peak Films)
January 27, 2022, 3:55 am
‘Tantura’ director: Israelis have been lied to for years about alleged 1948 massacre
With his shocking documentary out this month, Alon Schwarz says Israel can only move forward as a Jewish democratic state by being honest about the killing of Arab villagers
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Haviva Ner-David, rabbi and author whose first novel, 'Hope Valley,' tells the story of a friendship between two women, one Jewish Israeli and the other Palestinian (Courtesy Haviva Ner-David)
May 19, 2021, 10:39 am
Memoirist turns to fiction with tale of Arab, Jewish women’s unlikely friendship
Haviva Ner-David’s ‘Hope Valley’ weaves a story of Israeli and Palestinian histories in the verdant setting of the Galilee
By Jessica Steinberg
MKs Ayman Odeh and Ahmad Tibi react after submitting a joint list of candidates from their Hadash and Ta'al parties to the Central Elections Committee at the Knesset on February 21, 2019. (Hadash)
May 29, 2019, 11:13 pm
Arab MK brings comic relief with Knesset speech mocking Netanyahu concessions
Hadash-Ta’al co-leader Aymad Odeh lampoons 11th-hour attempts to woo opposition MKs by joking that PM promised him withdrawal to pre-67 lines and more
By Sue Surkes
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