US EditionAs Fighting Continues in Gaza, More US Jews Are Recognizing the Nakba
- On May 15, 2025, Palestinians worldwide marked the 77th Nakba anniversary with a joint remembrance ceremony held in Beit Jala, West Bank, amid ongoing Gaza conflict.
- The Nakba followed Israel's 1948 founding and displacement of about 700,000 Palestinians, and recent violence and blockades in Gaza have intensified awareness internationally.
- Combatants for Peace, an Israeli-Palestinian nonprofit, organized the ceremony titled 'Holding onto Home, Holding onto Hope,' livestreamed globally as conflict deaths near 53,000.
- U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib reintroduced a resolution urging formal U.S. Nakba recognition and education, which Jewish groups like IfNotNow and Jewish Voice for Peace endorsed despite no House vote yet.
- Growing U.S. Jewish participation and debate over the Nakba reflect shifting perspectives amid Israel’s Gaza offensive, raising concerns about displacement repetition and calls for reckoning with history and present reality.
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Rashida Tlaib introduces resolution to mandate federal recognition of Palestinian ‘Nakba’
The resolution does not mention the Jewish people’s millennia-long connection to the land of Israel or any instances of Palestinian terrorism against the Jewish state. By Corey Walker, The Algemeiner US Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) on Wednesday introduced a resolution recognizing the 77th anniversary of the “nakba,” the Arabic term for “catastrophe” used by Palestinians and anti-Israel activists to refer to the establishment of the modern state of …
Headlines for May 15, 2025
Israeli Bombing Claims 100 More Lives in Gaza; Israel Expels Sick and Wounded Patients from Al-Shifa; Palestinians Commemorate 77th Anniversary of Nakba Amid Israeli Genocide; HRW on Gaza: “Israel Blockade Is a Tool of Extermination”; Taxpayers Against Genocide Deliver Complaint to Human Rights Commission; Trump Boasts Qatar’s “Historic” Deal with Boeing, Heads to UAE; Georgetown’s Badar Khan Suri Leaves ICE Jail on Bail, Reunites with Family; SC
As fighting continues in Gaza, more US Jews are recognizing the Nakba
(RNS) — Every year on May 15, Palestinians around the world pause to memorialize what they call the Nakba, or “catastrophe,” that displaced a majority of Palestinians during the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948. As Israel’s 19-month-old military campaign in Gaza continues, some American Jews are joining commemorations of the offensive that started it all 77 years ago. Many U.S. Jews watched a livestream on Thursday (May 15) of the J…
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