We present this special issue to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Nakba, the Arabic word for ‘catastrophe.’ The Nakba refers to the expulsion and dispossession of 750,000 Palestinians from their homeland during Israel’s creation (1947-1949). In this issue, we lay out the historical record of those years to show that the Nakba was the… Read More
In 1948, the State of Israel was created on land that only a year before had been a majority Palestinian population with a majority of Palestinian villages. As the graphs below demonstrate, by 1949, Israel had expelled 750,000 Palestinians and erased more than 500 Palestinian villages. As a result, within two years, Israel had become a… Read More
BADIL is a human rights organization committed to defending and promoting the rights of Palestinian refugees and internally displaced persons, within the frameworks of international humanitarian and human rights law.
Facing the Nakba offers a seven-session curriculum and additional resources for US Jews and a general US audience about the history of the Nakba and its present implications in Palestine/Israel.
There are local, national, and international organizations fighting for the rights and dignity of the Palestinian people.
“We have on this land that which makes life worth living: April’s hesitation, the aroma of bread at dawn…” —Mahmoud Darwish
Israel’s creation resulted in the dispossession of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians, hundreds of villages destroyed, and millions of refugees today.
al-Majdal is a quarterly magazine of BADIL Resource Center that aims to raise public awareness and support for a just solution to Palestinian residency and refugee issues.
Before Their Diaspora is a visual journey into Palestine before 1948. Every important aspect of Palestinian society comes to life in the nearly 500 photographs, carefully selected from thousands available in private and public collections throughout the world. Descriptive, analytical texts introduce each of the five historical periods into which the book is divided. Carefully… Read More
The goal of this JNF eBook is to show how Israeli settler colonialism and apartheid are served by and depend on the environmental racism and destructiveness of the Jewish National Fund (JNF). The struggle for home, land and justice by Palestinians is understood as inherently connected to struggles around the world against historic and contemporary… Read More
Stretching over decades, encompassing bombing campaigns, ceasefires and mass exoduses, The Last Earth tells the story of modern Palestine through the memories of those who have survived it.
Nakba brings to light the different ways in which Palestinians experienced and retain in memory the events of 1948. It is the first book to examine in detail how memories of Palestine’s cataclysmic past are shaped by differences of class, gender, generation, and geographical location. In exploring the power of the past, the authors show… Read More
Palestinian refugees fleeing for their lives (Drawn from the Facing the Nakba Curriculum)
The goal of Plan Dalet was to reduce the Palestinian population by expelling residents and destroying Palestinian villages. (Drawn from the Facing the Nakba Curriculum)
Defense Minister Moshe Dayan describing construction of Israeli sites in places where Palestinian villages once stood (Drawn from the Facing the Nakba Curriculum)
