Baladna

Baladna youth activists. (Maria Zreiq)
The Palestinian group building power through youth
Baladna head Nidaa Nassar explains how the Haifa-based NGO is raising a generation of Palestinians to overcome their fragmentation and erasure.
By Vera Sajrawi June 21, 2023
Palestinian citizens take part in a general strike in solidarity with Palestinians in Jerusalem, West Bank and Gaza, in the northern town of Sakhnin, on October 13, 2015. (photo: Omar Sameer)
WATCH: Why Arab youth increasingly identify as Palestinian
What makes young Arabs who live in Israel define themselves as Palestinians? How do Israel’s divide-and-conquer policies make it difficult for Palestinian citizens to formulate a unified identity? Part two of Rami Younis and Israel Social TV’s inside look at the changes taking place among Palestinians inside Israel. Watch part one here. Read more: WATCH: ‘Israeli Arab’ or Palestinian? A…
By Rami Younis January 11, 2017
A 3D model of the rebuilt Palestinian village of al-Ghabisiyya. (Screenshot)
WATCH: 3D modeling helps visualize Palestinian right of return
For three years, a group of young Palestinian citizens of Israel has been meeting in order to imagine and plan their return to the destroyed villages from which their parents and grandparents were expelled. The project they initiated, “Udna” (“Return”), aims to give the younger generation an awareness of the Nakba, and to create actual…
By Social TV January 9, 2016
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Still from X-Project. (YouTube screenshot)
WATCH: Palestinian short film tackles emotional impact of conscription
A just-released short film, titled “Project-X,” tackles a politically charged issue — conscription by the Israeli military — through an emotional appeal to Palestinian youth. “We wanted this time to make a different kind of video,” said Nadim Nashif, director of Baladna — the Association for Arab Youth, which co-sponsored production of the film. “We…
By Samer Badawi June 10, 2014
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