All The News Anti-Palestinian Posters Will Not Read Or Discuss

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Reclaiming CUNY as a People’s University: Fighting against repression, censorship, and anti-Palestinian racism

On May 15th, as people worldwide commemorated the 75th anniversary of the ongoing Nakba, the City University of New York ramped up its repression of student-led Palestine solidarity organizing.

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The administration of Hunter College attempted to censor the college’s Palestine Solidarity Alliance’s (PSA) Nakba Day Commemoration by trying to block Nerdeen Kiswani (CUNY Law ‘22) – a former Hunter College student and Hunter Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) Vice-President (16’) – from speaking at the event.

Upon confirmation from Palestine Legal that this act of interference was a violation of the students’ First Amendment rights and a clear assault on academic freedom, CUNY for Palestine quickly mobilized to launch an urgent action campaign. Within hours, around 100 emails were sent to Hunter and CUNY Central Administration, demonstrating the deep support for Palestine and Nerdeen across CUNY campuses. Thanks to PSA’s principled resistance, Nerdeen spoke from the floor in defiance of Hunter College’s fabricated ‘policy’.

 

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Palestinians mark 75th anniversary of Nakba Day | Al Jazeera Newsfeed​

 

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Weekly Briefing: The ADL and AIPAC fear Nakba commemorations for good reason

The venom of the Israel lobby toward the Nakba is understandable. Acknowledging the Nakba doesn’t just undermine the “miracle” of Israel, but the state’s legitimacy in the eyes of idealistic Americans.

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I didn’t see it coming, but this has been a momentous month in the U.S. discourse of Israel and Palestine, for a simple reason: The Nakba has gained a foothold inside American public life. Mainstream figures are talking about the Palestinian dispossession of 1948. Some are acknowledging the Nakba. Others are denying it.

The denial was surprising in its intensity. Leading officials in the Israel lobby — ADL, AIPAC, and Democratic Majority for Israel– have responded to historical commemorations with “venomous hate.”

 

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How Would You Feel, Senator Rosen?

Jewish responses to a recent event commemorating the Nakba reveal a communal narcissism, which sees Palestinians' very identity as being first and foremost about Jews.

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Rep. Rashid Tlaib addresses a packed room at an event about the 75th anniversary of the Nakba, May 10.

 

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Fake maps from Arab squatters.

 

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ADL launched legal effort to stop Mapping Project

An Anti-Defamation League injunction described as an “attack on the freedom of expression” has been dismissed by a court in Iceland, but it is appealing the decision.

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Reflections on the 75th Anniversary of a Nakba That Never Ended

In the decades since the event Palestinians know as "the Catastrophe," dispossession has become a timeless theme of the Palestinian experience.

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If you’re driving across the length of our bruised geography, you will at various points encounter rubble. Sometimes it is the rubble of a house in Jerusalem, demolished once, or more than once, in the past few decades. Other times, it is the ruins of a village, depopulated in 1948, now poorly concealed under a forest of pine trees planted by the Jewish National Fund. Sometimes it is the rubble of a bullet-strafed home in the occupied Syrian Golan, which came to its knees during the 1967 invasion. Other times, it is the rubble of a residential building bombed during one of the assaults on the besieged Gaza Strip—in 2008, ’09, ’12, ’14, ’19, or ’21. Or, if you are reading this a few years from now, it may well be the wreckage of Silwan, Masafer Yatta, and the Naqab, towns that are still bustling but threatened.