Commemoration: Nakba Day on 15 May in Ramallah, the Palestinian administrative capital, marking the day mass displacement of Palestinians and the destruction of Palestinian life and homeland took place in 1948. Photo: Heinrich Böll Foundation Palestine & Jordan
Nakba Day invites all of us to think about belonging, about how we treat those who we think do not belong and about the importance of rules in the negotiation of spaces of belonging.
Every 15 May the world marks Nakba Day, when mass displacement of Palestinians and the destruction of Palestinian life and homeland took place in 1948.
This year the commemoration comes just weeks after Israeli naval forces seized 180 civilians and activists, including Saif Abukeshek and Thiago Ávila, from a civilian aid flotilla in international waters, in what has been described as a violation of international law and detained them under conditions reported as including torture.
It also occurs as Marwan Barghouti, widely regarded as Palestine’s most popular political leader, enters his 24th year of imprisonment.
