Nakba

Only Jewish Board member of CMHR resigns over 'one-sided' upcoming Nakba exhibition

Mark Berlin stepped down from the Canadian Museum for Human Rights, citing concerns that its upcoming Nakba exhibit lacks historical balance.

JUNE 23, 2026|ByMATHILDA HELLER

People rally to mark the one year anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada on February 24, 2023.

Protesters hold up signs in support of Gaza as they gather before the start of the G7 summit in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, June 15, 2025.

B'nai Brith Canada demands delay of upcoming Nakba exhibit amid foreign interference fears

'Palestine Uprooted: Nakba Past and Present' is set to open June 27, 2026. It's advertised as an exploration of human rights violations related to the "ongoing forced displacement and dispossession."

JUNE 17, 2026|ByMATHILDA HELLER

ISRAELI RIGHT-WING activists demonstrate next to Arab Israeli and left-wing activist students during a rally marking the anniversary of the Nakba at Tel Aviv University, in May 2026.

Why pro-Israel educators should teach the Nakba - opinion

Students who learn this version of 1948 develop both moral imagination and intellectual resilience.

JUNE 6, 2026|ByURI PILICHOWSKI

US Representative Rashida Tlaib sits next to US Representative Ilhan Omar during US President Donald Trump's State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, US, February 24, 2026.

Rashida Tlaib reintroduces resolution to recognize 'ongoing Palestinian Nakba'

The resolution, reintroduced into the House in time for Nakba Day, called for an official commemoration of the Nakba and for US legislators to denounce an "ongoing Nakba."

MAY 18, 2026|ByMICHAEL STARR

Grapevine May 14, 2021: Getting worse before it gets better

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

MAY 13, 2021ByGREER FAY CASHMAN

PRESIDENT REUVEN RIVLIN with Muslim ambassadors and local Arab leaders at the Iftar dinner that he hosted at the President’s Residence.

Canceling election, Nakba Day and Ramadan could cause eruption - analysis

The most immediate milestone could arise if Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas calls off the election for the Palestinian Legislative Council

APRIL 29, 2021ByUDI SHAHAM

PALESTINIANS CELEBRATE Nakba Day at Jerusalem’s Damascus Gate in 2014

Deir Yassin Massacre: What really happened? - opinion

The Friday tour is not an exercise in the memorialization of a tragedy, but the attempt to pervert the historical record.

APRIL 7, 2021ByYISRAEL MEDAD

PALESTINIANS CLASH with Israeli security forces during a protest last year, marking the 72nd anniversary of their ‘Nakba’ in the West Bank village of Sawiya, near Nablus.

Palestinians in bid to secure renewal of UNRWA mandate

PA urges donors to honor financial obligations to Palestinians.

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019ByKHALED ABU TOAMEH

A child walks in front of a mural painting depicting the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat on her way to a school run by United Nations Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) in Balata refugee camp, east of Nablus on August 29, 2018

North African tolerance

“Why not build a memorial for the victims of the Israeli Holocaust against the children of Sabra, Shatila, Deir Yassin, Jenin, Gaza and Qana?”

AUGUST 29, 2019ByJPOST EDITORIAL

THEN-PRESIDENT Yitzhak Ben-Zvi and his wife Rachel Yana’it Ben-Zvi with new immigrants from North Africa, aboard the ship ‘Negba’ in 1955.

The Pink Flour Mill – history as romance

While Hannun’s account is kitchen-table history, what actually happened was that the overwhelming majority of Mandate Arabs left what was then the newly-established State of Israel on their own accor

MAY 25, 2019ByALAN MEYER

Demonstrators hold Palestinian flags during a protest marking the 71st anniversary of the 'Nakba', or catastrophe, when hundreds of thousands fled or were forced from their homes in the war surrounding Israel's independence in 1948, near the Israel-Gaza border fence, in the southern Gaza Strip May 1

Hamas ‘salute’ Jeremy Corbyn for Nakba rally support

Chairman of the Campaign Against Antisemitism, Gideon Falter, said: ‘Clearly Hamas feels that when it comes to Jews, Jeremy Corbyn is a brother in arms.

MAY 17, 2019ByBENJY SINGER

Britain's opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn acknowledges his audience prior to giving his keynote speech at the Labour Party Conference in Brighton, Britain, September 27, 2017.

Pro-Israel students counter Nakba Day at Tel Aviv University

Arab-Israeli students decried the 'catastrophe' of 1948 while Jewish-Israeli students celebrated the founding of the State of Israel at Tel Aviv University.

MAY 16, 2019ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF