Palestinian right of return

Two decades after building this house in Jerusalem’s Talbiya neighborhood and posing for a photo with his family, Shukri Al Jamal was expelled from his home during the Nakba, along with the rest of the neighborhood’s Palestinian residents. The home is now populated by Jewish Israelis. (Courtesy of Tarek Bakri)
PODCAST: The project bringing Palestinian refugees back home
What does the right of return mean to Palestinians, 72 years since the Nakba? Tarek Bakri’s visual documentation project offers a glimpse.
By Henriette Chacar May 15, 2020
Israeli security forces guard as Jewish Israelis tour the Palestinian side of the old city market in the West Bank city of Hebron, June 15, 2019. (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)
Confederation can’t answer the most important issue in Israel-Palestine
Any framework that comes to replace the two-state solution must aspire toward decolonization, and accept that Zionism and full civic equality are irreconcilable. Changes on the ground over the past decade have allowed Israel to consolidate its rule between the river and the sea. While the final nail in the two-state coffin was hammered long…
By Henriette Chacar July 2, 2019
Palestinian protesters waive the Palestinian flag, during a Great Return March demonstration near the Gaza-Israel fence, Gaza Strip, September 7, 2018. (Mohammed Zaanoun/Activestills.org)
The Palestinian struggle is shifting to a civil rights movement, and Gaza is leading the way
The Great Return March signals a shift for the Palestinian people, says scholar Tareq Baconi. Palestinians are no longer fighting for a state, and are increasingly demanding their full rights — primarily the right of return. The leaders of the Great Return March surprised the world when they organized the first demonstration along the Israel-Gaza fence…
By Rami Younis January 11, 2019
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Israeli and international activists waved big Palestinian flags, chanted slogans, and carried posters supporting Palestinians’ right of return. (Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)
PHOTOS: Activists protest on Israeli side of Gaza fence in solidarity with Great Return March
‘We will continue to come here until Gaza is free.’ By Oren Ziv Dozens of Israeli and international activists protested on the Israeli side of the Gaza fence on Friday, in solidarity with the Great Return March protests in Gaza. The activists, some members of organizations like Jews for Return and Coalition of Women for Peace,…
By Oren Ziv September 21, 2018
Palestinian refugees, Mohammad Abdullah Tafesh, 90 years old, and His wife. Laila Abdel Meguid Tafesh 78 years old, from the Rafah refugee camp, holds up a key allegedly from his house in Jaffa, now located in Israel on May 15, 2009. in the Rafah refugee camp, southern Gaza strip. Palestinians are marking May 15, as Nakba Day or Catastrophe Day, as the 61st anniversary of the al-Nakba, the day the Israeli state was created in 1948.Photo By Abed Rahim Khatib / Flash90 *** Local Caption *** *** Local Caption *** ?????? ???????? ??? ????? ???? ??? ???????? ????????? ??????? ???????? ???????? ????????? ??????? ???????? ??????? ???????? ??????? ???????? ???????? ????????? ???????? ????????? ???????? ????????? ???????? ??????? ???????? ??????? ????????? ????????
How Israeli leftists trivialize the Palestinian cause
Ending Israel’s military rule in the Palestinian territories occupied in 1967 will not solve the problem of a state built for one group at the expense of another. By Zena Tahhan Ask any Palestinian on the street and they will tell you that the 1948 territories—those areas that now make up Israel—are occupied. It does not…
By +972 Magazine November 28, 2017
South African Jews and representatives of Lubyan refugees at a public apology ceremony amid the ruins of the destroyed Palestinian village of Lubya, May 1, 2015. (Sarah Levy)
S. African Jews in Lubya: We’re here to acknowledge the Nakba
Among the ruins of the destroyed Palestinian village of Lubya, a group of South African Jews publicly apologizes to descendants of Lubya’s refugees for their donations to the Jewish National Fund, donations that were used to plant part of the forest that covers the village’s remains. In a forest glade set atop the remains of…
By Natasha Roth-Rowland May 2, 2015
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