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Remembering the Nakba: Voices from Palestine (Part 2)
Palestinian refugees during the Nakba in 1948
ANGUS REID explains the significance of Cuba’s egalitarian in letter and spirit Family Code and the pertinent lessons it holds for democracies anywhere in the world
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NICK WRIGHT considers how the isolation of Israel and a new film on the controversial Italian communist leader are creating new reference points for Italy’s left
CARLOS MARTINEZ says Cuba’s achievements in the face of a criminal blockade are startling, but the island’s future if the United States succeeds in crushing it looks bleak
AMNON BROWNFIELD STEIN reports that far-right MPs who mobbed the event organised by Hadash may have helped raise awareness of the brutality of the Israeli right
BETWEEN 1947 and 1949, around 750,000 Palestinians were expelled from their homes and over 500 villages destroyed.
May 15, marks the Nakba, or “catastrophe” the day after the declaration of the state of Israel on May 14, 1948.
For Palestinians, the Nakba doesn’t represent a singular event, but the ongoing process of colonisation and displacement of their lands and people.
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