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The Palestinian Nakba: Is truth and reconciliation possible?
Palestinians from Tantura, a small Arab fishing village, are expelled to Jordan during the Nakba, June 1948. Photo by Benno Rothenberg/Meitar Collection/National Library of Israel/Wikimedia Commons. As a Canadian-born citizen of Palestinian origin, I learned that part of confronting my experience of intergenerational trauma and injustice includes reflecting on Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation policies towards Indigenous peoples, which in turn helps to explain how Canada shapes and advances Zionism’s aims. Every year in May, Palestinians memorialize the Nakba (“the Catastrophe”) which refers to the process whereby Palestinians were forced out of their ancestral homelands through ethnic cleansing and political violence, driven by international collusion with Israel’s settler-colonial expansion that persists to this day. I use the word memorialize deliberately because the process that the Nakba names has been called a “memoricide”: a relentless effort to erase anything related to Palestinian identity or indigeneity and to expunge it from the world’s—and more particularly the West’s—collective historic and political imagination. For Palestinians, preserving our stories, our teachings, our ways of being, and our identities are all part of resistance through memory. Remembering is what keeps who we are alive. This year, I am remembering and honouring my parents, who survived being born and raised in refugee camps in Lebanon and lived through the Lebanese civil war. I am especially remembering my late father, who passed away last year, and who happened to be born on October 7, 1951—three years after the initial Nakba, and 72 years before a day that would change our world forever. The Nakba is an ongoing process that officially began during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, although the Zionist ideological groundwork for it was first laid in 1799 during the French colonial invasion of the region by Napoleon. Some three decades years later, British colonialists stepped in. Since the events of October 7, 2023, the Nakba and Palestinian grievances have returned to centre stage, putting to rest any risk that they will disappear down the memory hole and vanish from the hearts and minds of people of conscience worldwide. Renewed attention to the plight of the Palestinian people has cast light on the role of myriad elements of Canadian society in the Nakba: from academia to political organizations to state and non-state actors. It has also drawn attention to Canada’s out...
SAFTU ON THE 78TH COMMEMORATION OF NAKBA.
The South African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU) joins millions across the world in commemorating the 78th anniversary of the Nakba. The Catastrophe, when more than 750,000 Palestinians were forcibly displaced from their homes in 1948 through massacres, ethnic cleansing, and the violent establishment of the state of Israel on Palestinian land. The Nakba was not a single historical event confined to 1948. It is an ongoing process of dispossession, occupation, apartheid, siege, forced removals, land theft, military repression, and genocide against the Palestinian people. What the world is witnessing today in Gaza and the occupied Palestinian territories is the continuation and intensification of that catastrophe. The 78th commemoration of the Nakba also exposes the false propaganda aggressively promoted by Israel and its allies that the current assault on Gaza began only as a response to the 7 October 2023 attacks and abductions carried out by Hamas militants. The Nakba reminds the world that Palestinian dispossession, occupation, siege, killings, land theft, and apartheid did not begin on 7 October. They began decades before, with the colonial displacement of Palestinians in 1948 and the sustained denial of their national rights ever since. While SAFTU mourns the loss of all civilian lives, we reject attempts to erase history and portray Israel merely as a victim defending itself. No occupying power can invoke “self-defence” to justify collective punishment, starvation, forced displacement, and the mass slaughter of an occupied people. International law does not permit genocide, apartheid, and occupation under the guise of security. Today, Gaza lies in ruins. Tens of thousands have been killed, the overwhelming majority being women and children. Entire families have been wiped out. Hospitals, schools, refugee camps, universities, religious institutions, and basic infrastructure have been systematically destroyed. Millions face starvation, disease, and displacement under a brutal siege that has shocked the conscience of humanity. The genocide unfolding before the eyes of the world exposes the hypocrisy of imperialist powers who speak of “human rights” and “democracy” while financing, arming, and politically shielding the Israeli apartheid state. The United States and its Western allies continue to provide military, diplomatic, and economic support to Israel while vetoing meaningful international action to stop the slaughter. SAFTU reiterates that...
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