This Nakba Day was different because it fell amidst the many recent developments in what we call the Arab Spring. It is probably correct that Palestinians have been feeling left out, as the attention ...

Today, Palestinians and their supporters, as they have done increasingly over the years, mark what they call the naqba (Arabic for catastrophe). It was on this day 65 years ago that Israel came into ...

Three weeks ago was Naqba Day – the day on which Palestinians inside and outside Israel commemorate their “catastrophe” – the exodus of more than half of the Palestinian people from the territories ...

My grandmother used to keep a rusted iron key in a small wooden box lined with faded velvet. As a child, I thought it was ...

In Gaza, the boundary marking past and present has become indistinct. Nineteen forty-eight is not over—it is unfolding again, and in more violent and destructive ways. Relatives in Gaza mourn after ...

Blink and you might miss the few stone walls that are all that’s left of the village that Yusuf Abu Hamam’s family was forced to flee when he was an infant in 1948. The village, al-Joura, was ...

You may think you know what Nakba means. But do you? Do you know the meaning it was really originally intended to convey? Did those who gathered at Tel Aviv University’s Entin Square last week, when ...

On Tuesday, the 71st anniversary of Israel’s Declaration of Independence according to the Gregorian calendar, Iran’s foreign ministry blasted the Jewish State for “massacring the Palestinians” and ...

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Mayor Zohran Mamdani doubled down on his video commemorating “Nakba Day” as criticism from Jewish organizations mounted Monday. Hizzoner downplayed The Post’s report on Sunday that at least three high ...

deceived, fake “Promised land” receipt. In “Post-it notes: Do prefixes trap us in the past?” TLS, 7/25/25, Ben Hutchinson’s review of POST-: Nachruf auf eine Vorsilbe, by Dieter Thomä, suggested to me ...

Please note that the posts on The Blogs are contributed by third parties. The opinions, facts and any media content in them are presented solely by the authors, and neither The Times of Israel nor its ...