For Palestinians, the Nakba was never merely a historical event confined to 1948. It was not a tragedy that began and ended with the displacement of more than 700,000 Palestinians during the creation of Israel. Rather, the Nakba is a wound that is still open — one that continues to bleed across generations through occupation, displacement, violence and the denial of fundamental human rights. Seventy-eight years later, Palestinians are still living the consequences of that catastrophe.

Every year on 15 May, Palestinians mark the Nakba — the catastrophe of 1948. Yet to describe the Nakba as history is to misunderstand its enduring architecture. It was never a…

For Palestinians, the Nakba was never merely a historical event confined to 1948. It was not a tragedy that began and ended with the displacement of more than 700,000 Palestinians…