"the unhealable rift forced between a human being and a native place" (opens in new tab)

15 May, Nakba Day, commemorates the Nakba—the expulsion of more than 700,000 Palestinians from Palestine in 1948-1949. Israeli paramilitaries destroyed more than 400 villages, poisoned their wells, and massacred their inhabitants. Palestinians, both those remaining in Palestine and those in diaspora, marked 78 years of displacement today.Many scholars, as well as Palestinians themselves, to conceptualize the Nakba not as a single period in time, but as an ongoing experience of dispossession. ...