Nakba

Eyal Weizman. (David Ausserhofer/Robert Bosch Academy)

PODCAST: Why ‘ungrounding’ is the defining feature of Israel’s genocide

Discussing his new book, Eyal Weizman explains how the systematic erasure of Gaza's built environment is aimed at extinguishing Palestinian life in the Strip.

By +972 Magazine June 26, 2026

PODCAST: Remembering the Nakba of urban Palestine

Abed Abou Shhadeh traces how the catastrophe of 1948 unfolded in his home city of Jaffa — and what it means to resist erasure across generations.

By +972 Magazine May 14, 2026

The mosque in Dayr al-Shaykh, one of the last remaining structures in the destroyed Palestinian village, west of Jersualem, from "The Erasure of Palestine." (Ahmad Al-Bazz)

A Palestinian photographer’s ‘search for what remained’ from 1948

When Nablus-based journalist Ahmad Al-Bazz received an Israeli travel permit, he rushed to visit nearly 200 villages depopulated in the Nakba. Five years later, his new book offers a powerful visual archive of erasure.

By Yahel Gazit May 12, 2026

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Abd Al Mannan Shbita speaks to Palestinian and Jewish Israeli activists, at the site of the former village of Miska, depopulated in the 1948 war, central Israel, April 22, 2026. (Iddo Elam, Zochrot)

Israel blocked the March of Return. Palestinians marked the Nakba anyway

After police prevented the main procession, families returned to depopulated villages across the country, keeping alive the memory of what was lost in 1948.

By Baker Zoubi April 28, 2026

A protester waves the Palestinian flag toward Israeli soldiers standing on the other side of the fence encaging Gaza, during the "Great March of Return," east of Gaza City, Gaza Strip, October 18, 2019. (Mohammed Zaanoun/Activestills)

What a real ‘day after’ for Gaza could look like

Many of those displaced by the genocide are already Nakba refugees. Activists are mapping out how they could return to their original homes from pre-1948.

By Yahav Erez April 22, 2026

An activist waves a Palestinian flag at the front a feminist march in Paris, March 7, 2025. (Anne Paq/Activestills)

The Gaza genocide radicalized the world — and there’s no going back

People can't unsee a live-streamed annihilation defended under the banner of liberal democracy. They know the Israeli apartheid regime can no longer exist.

By Tareq Baconi December 24, 2025

Construction in the city of Lod, central Israel, July 13, 2024. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

In the name of ‘urban renewal,’ Israel is trampling Lod’s 2,000-year-old heritage

The municipality is encouraging real estate sharks to tear up the city’s history in order to build towers that will likely drive out Palestinian residents.

By Tawfiq Da'adli December 22, 2025

Right-wing Israelis protest near the Gaza border in support of the re-establishment of Israeli settlements in the Strip, in southern Israel, July 30, 2025. (Tsafrir Abayov/Flash90)

Israel is waging a holocaust in Gaza. Denazification is our only remedy

The deadly ethno-supremacy inherent to Israeli society runs deeper than Netanyahu, Ben Gvir, and Smotrich. It must be confronted at its root.

By Orly Noy September 18, 2025

Israelis protest against the war and humanitarian crisis in Gaza, on a highway bridge near Jerusalem, August 15, 2025. (Jamal Awad/Flash90)

How Israelis turned atrocity denial into an art

As Gazans document mass killing and starvation in real time, the response of much of Israeli society is: “It’s all fake — and they deserve it.”

By Ron Dudai August 22, 2025

Photos of Palestinian refugees displayed at the entrance to the Joint Nakba Remembrance Ceremony in Beit Jala, the West Bank, May 14, 2025. (Combatants for Peace)

Remembering the Nakba while witnessing a genocide

As Israel destroys Gaza, Israelis and Palestinians gathered in Beit Jala not only to mark the catastrophe of 1948, but to elevate living Palestinian testimonies.

By Dikla Taylor-Sheinman May 19, 2025

Screengrab from "Lyd." (Courtesy of the directors)

A Lyd without the Nakba

Merging documentary with sci-fi, a new film narrates the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian city in 1948, and imagines what it would look like if the war never happened. So the Israeli government banned it from being screened.

By Dikla Taylor-Sheinman October 25, 2024

Palestinians inspect a house that was destroyed in an Israeli air strike, in the city of Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, April 24, 2024. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Can Palestinians imagine a future with Israelis after this war?

My grandfather remembers neighborly relations with Jews before 1948. For Palestinians today, such a prospect seems nearly impossible.

By Mahmoud Mushtaha May 27, 2024

Palestinians march during a rally marking the anniversary of the Nakba in the West Bank city of Nablus, May 15, 2024. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)

How do we tell the story of the Nakba when the plot hasn’t ended?

Elias Khoury’s new book encapsulates the symbiotic relationship between literature and the Nakba, exploring its nature as a continuum of calamities.

By Yehouda Shenhav-Shahrabani May 15, 2024