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Palestinians mark 78 years since Nakba amid ongoing displacement
Skip linksSkip to Content Live Navigation menuNewsAfricaAsiaUS & CanadaLatin AmericaEuropeAsia PacificMiddle EastExplainedOpinionSportVideoFeaturesEconomyHuman RightsClimate CrisisInvestigationsInteractivesIn PicturesScience & TechnologyPodcastsTravel Live Navigation menuTrendingUS-Israel war on IranTracking Israel's ceasefire violationsDonald TrumpRussia-Ukraine warPalestinians mark 78 years since Nakba amid ongoing displacementNewsFeed78 years of memory: Palestinians rally in Khan Yunis to mark the Nakba.Published On 11 May 2026
78 years since the Nakba and the collapse of the Zionist project
Listen 0:00 / 0:00 1.0x For decades, the Zionist project sold the world a carefully constructed image: that of a modern democracy, militarily invincible, morally superior, and destined for historical permanence. Today, that narrative is collapsing before the eyes of the world. But this crisis did not begin yesterday. As the 78th anniversary of the Nakba approaches — the Palestinian catastrophe of 1948, which saw the mass expulsion of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians, the destruction of entire villages, and the formal consolidation of a settler-colonial project over historic Palestine — it is impossible to separate the current crisis from its foundational roots. What we are witnessing in Gaza is not a rupture with Israel’s history. It is the radical continuation of the very logic upon which it was founded. What is in crisis is not merely Benjamin Netanyahu or an exceptionally brutal extremist government. What is collapsing is the Zionist project itself as a political structure built upon occupation, apartheid, ethno-religious supremacy, and permanent war. Netanyahu did not create these contradictions. He merely accelerated, radicalised, and exposed them without disguise. For years, sections of the Western political establishment sustained the fiction that Israel was a vibrant democracy temporarily hijacked by the far right. This narrative ignores a fundamental truth: no genuine democracy can be built upon the systematic denial of an indigenous people’s rights. The first major collapse is military. For decades, Israel cultivated the mythology of invincibility. Its army was portrayed as technologically unmatched, morally exemplary, and capable of delivering swift and decisive victories. Gaza shattered that myth. After months of mass devastation, the destruction of hospitals, schools, universities, and refugee camps, Israel has failed to achieve its declared objectives. Palestinian resistance remains operational. Multiple fronts of confrontation have exposed unprecedented strategic vulnerabilities. When a regime must destroy civilians on an industrial scale to simulate strength, it is because its real strength has already begun to decline. But the crisis extends far beyond the battlefield. Colonial projects survive only so long as they can convince settlers that there is a future worth defending. That consensus is beginning to unravel. Permanent fear, insecurity, and the erosion of trust in state institutions are producing a devastating phenomenon for a...
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Palestinians Mark 78th Nakba Anniversary Amid Gaza War
Nakba anniversary amid Gaza war Palestinians marked the 78th anniversary of the Nakba on May 15, with Mondoweiss saying the dispossession that created the Palestinian refugee crisis and established the political conditions "continues, not an event of the past."
