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Gaza, From Fence to Fence
This is an edited excerpt of an essay that appears in Gaza as Metaphor, a new volume edited by Helga Tawil-Souri and Dina Matar. The editors’ introduction to the book notes that “Gaza has many...
View ArticleWhen is a Village Not a Village? When Israel Says So
By Muna Haddad “That is absurd,” the lawyer for the Israeli government blurted out as she rose to her feet. We were arguing before the judge in the Beersheva (Bir al-Saba’) District Court in a case on...
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Decolonizing the Vocabulary of Palestinian Human Rights Work
By Amjad Alqasis Israeli practices and policies are a combination of apartheid, military occupation, and colonization. This regime is not limited to the Palestinians living in the occupied Palestinian...
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Driving While Palestinian, on Both Sides of the Green Line
By Amahl Bishara Israeli policies preventing Palestinians from entering Israel and limiting Palestinian movement within the 1967 occupied territory — collectively termed “closure” — have shaped...
View ArticleThe 50-Year-Old Military Order That Could Unleash a New Wave of Land Grabs in...
The Nakba Files presents an original English translation of Military Order 58: Order on Abandoned Properties (Private Property), which was promulgated by the Israeli military command in the West Bank...
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Private International Law in the Shadow of the Occupation
A staff writer on behalf of Adalah: The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel and the Center for Palestine Studies, Columbia University spoke with Professor Michael Karayanni of Hebrew...
View ArticlePalestine in the Sun of the Black Radical Tradition
The Nakba Files spoke with Greg Thomas, Associate Professor of English at Tufts University (USA) and curator of the traveling exhibit “George Jackson in the Sun of Palestine,” which will run at Haifa’s...
View Article#BlackLivesMatter and the Question of Genocide in Palestine
By Katherine Franke One of the distinctive strengths of the Black Lives Matter movement is its attention to solidarity with intersecting struggles of social movements. In late September 2016, for...
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Visions of Reparation, from the Americas to Palestine
The Nakba Files spoke to Mireille Fanon Mendès-France, member and former chair of the UN Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent, president of the Frantz Fanon Foundation, and a...
View ArticleThe “Passive Virtues” of Israel’s “Activist” Supreme Court
By Nimer Sultany In Israel and among its external supporters, there is a perception that Israel’s Supreme Court is – or at least was until recently – an “activist” one that checked the government’s...
View ArticleReparations and the Nakba
By Susan Slyomovics Since 1948, there have been numerous maximalist and minimalist proposals to resolve the fates of Palestinian refugees by those outside the homeland and those internally displaced...
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Palestine in the Sun of the Black Radical Tradition (Part II)
The Nakba Files spoke with Greg Thomas, Associate Professor of English at Tufts University (USA) and curator of the traveling exhibit “George Jackson in the Sun of Palestine,” which will run at Haifa’s...
View ArticleThe Occupation has a Gender
The street was tense, as the residents of the neighborhood awoke to find a new military checkpoint had been constructed between their homes and school. Israeli soldiers and border police, armed with...
View ArticleHow the Palestinian Judiciary Brings the PA’s Violence into the Law
By Emilio Dabed In an earlier post for the “Nakba Files” concerning Mahmoud Abbas’ appointment of judges to the Palestinian Constitutional Court, I argued that the Palestinian Authority (PA) has become...
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The Nakba & The Law Workshop
By Amjad Iraqi On 7-8 December 2016, Adalah and the Columbia University Center for Palestine Studies hosted a two-day workshop as part of its “Nakba and the Law” project at the Grand Park Hotel in...
View ArticleThe Day We Were Eaten Like Black Goats
By Majd Kayyal A Zionist blowhard once wrote an article recounting his woes in the Naqab (Negev) desert, describing the arduous path he took in growing Chardonnay grapes to make high-end wine. One day,...
View ArticleWhat does the Nakba Mean to Young Palestinians in Israel?
By Eman Abu Hanna-Nahhas How is the memory of the Nakba sustained by younger generations of Palestinians living in Israel? Unlike Palestinians living in camps or elsewhere in exile, those living in...
View ArticlePalestinian Legal Activism, Between Liberation and the ‘Desire’ for Statehood
By Emlio Dabed Contemporary Palestinian politics is marked by paradoxical dynamics: while we observe an entrenchment of the colonial regime, division within the national movement, territorial and...
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Routine Emergency in the Jagged Time of Catastrophe
By John Reynolds ‘1948’ connotes the calendar incarnation of catastrophe. But the Nakba is, in many ways, an ongoing process and implanted structure, not (just) a historical event. Nakba is now ‘a name...
View ArticleIsrael aims new Nakba-style weapon at Arab citizens
By Myssana Morany What Jewish Israelis call their War of Independence, Palestinians refer to as the Nakba, or “catastrophe” in Arabic. During the 1948 war and its aftermath, Israel depopulated and...
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