on 15 May 2019, Palestinians are commemorating the 71st anniversary of the “Nakba” (“catastrophe”), in which we remember the mass displacement and dispossession of Palestinians that followed the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948. One of the Nakba’s most devastating consequences has been its transformation of the indigenous Palestinian people into “foreigners” and “enemies” in their own homeland. The rupture caused by the Nakba is not merely an historical event: it is an ongoing phenomenon that oppresses all Palestinians to this day, whether they are refugees, living under occupation, or second-class citizens of Israel.
— source jfjfp.com | May 15, 2019