Nakba

U2 frontman Bono compares Ben-Gvir comments on Gazans to Nazi leader Heinrich Himmler's rhetoric

During the interview, conducted by journalist Brian Hiatt, Bono addressed comments Ben-Gvir made about Gaza residents in a conversation with former hostage survivor Rom Braslavski.

|ByELI LEON
Bono of U2 performs during the dedication ceremony for the opening of the Barack Obama Presidential Center in John Lewis Plaza on June 18, 2026 in Chicago, Illinois.
(Illustrative) Palestinian members of al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the Hamas movement.

Not calling Hamas terrorists in Nakba exhibit was ‘error,’ says Canada’s heritage minister

Canadian Heritage Minister Marc Miller stated that "not identifying Hamas as a terrorist organization is... a failure" and called for the alleged "error in curation" to be rectified.

|ByMATHILDA HELLER
Aerial view of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights, in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, on April 28, 2024.

Canadian Museum for Human Rights opens ‘Nakba’ exhibit amid pushback from Jewish leaders

The Winnipeg, Manitoba, exhibit is called “Palestine Uprooted: Nakba Past and Present,” has drawn fierce condemnation from some Jewish groups, including the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs.

|ByGRACE GILSON/JTA
People rally to mark the one year anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada on February 24, 2023.

Only Jewish Board member of CMHR resigns over 'one-sided' upcoming Nakba exhibition

Mark Berlin stepped down from the Canadian Museum for Human Rights, citing concerns that its upcoming Nakba exhibit lacks historical balance.

|ByMATHILDA HELLER

Israel must change its attitude toward the Nakba - comment

In the Palestinian narrative, the Nakba ('The Catastrophe') marks the departure/escape/expulsion of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from the territory of the State of Israel.

DECEMBER 19, 2021BySUSAN HATTIS ROLEF
A woman holds a Palestinian flag during a protest marking the 71st anniversary of the ‘Nakba’ at the Israel-Gaza border fence in 2019.

There must not be a second Nakba - editorial

Itamar Fleischman suggested that the best way to deal with Palestinian nationalist sentiment in Israel was to make them live in constant fear.

DECEMBER 14, 2021ByJPOST EDITORIAL
ARAB-ISRAELI STUDENTS at Tel Aviv University mark Nakba (‘catastrophe’) Day commemorating Israeli independence, on May 14, 2018.

Arabs need to be reminded of Nakba - ex-Bennett, Netanyahu spokesman

A former spokesman for Naftali Bennett said that Arabs needed to be "reminded of the Nakba" on a Channel 14 panel.

DECEMBER 9, 2021ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Screenshot of tweet of Channel 14 panel with Itamar Fleischmann

Grapevine May 14, 2021: Getting worse before it gets better

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

MAY 13, 2021ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
PRESIDENT REUVEN RIVLIN with Muslim ambassadors and local Arab leaders at the Iftar dinner that he hosted at the President’s Residence.

Canceling election, Nakba Day and Ramadan could cause eruption - analysis

The most immediate milestone could arise if Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas calls off the election for the Palestinian Legislative Council

APRIL 29, 2021ByUDI SHAHAM
PALESTINIANS CELEBRATE Nakba Day at Jerusalem’s Damascus Gate in 2014

Deir Yassin Massacre: What really happened? - opinion

The Friday tour is not an exercise in the memorialization of a tragedy, but the attempt to pervert the historical record.

APRIL 7, 2021ByYISRAEL MEDAD
PALESTINIANS CLASH with Israeli security forces during a protest last year, marking the 72nd anniversary of their ‘Nakba’ in the West Bank village of Sawiya, near Nablus.

Palestinians in bid to secure renewal of UNRWA mandate

PA urges donors to honor financial obligations to Palestinians.

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019ByKHALED ABU TOAMEH
A child walks in front of a mural painting depicting the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat on her way to a school run by United Nations Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) in Balata refugee camp, east of Nablus on August 29, 2018

North African tolerance

“Why not build a memorial for the victims of the Israeli Holocaust against the children of Sabra, Shatila, Deir Yassin, Jenin, Gaza and Qana?”

AUGUST 29, 2019ByJPOST EDITORIAL
THEN-PRESIDENT Yitzhak Ben-Zvi and his wife Rachel Yana’it Ben-Zvi with new immigrants from North Africa, aboard the ship ‘Negba’ in 1955.

The Pink Flour Mill – history as romance

While Hannun’s account is kitchen-table history, what actually happened was that the overwhelming majority of Mandate Arabs left what was then the newly-established State of Israel on their own accor

MAY 25, 2019ByALAN MEYER
Demonstrators hold Palestinian flags during a protest marking the 71st anniversary of the 'Nakba', or catastrophe, when hundreds of thousands fled or were forced from their homes in the war surrounding Israel's independence in 1948, near the Israel-Gaza border fence, in the southern Gaza Strip May 1

Hamas ‘salute’ Jeremy Corbyn for Nakba rally support

Chairman of the Campaign Against Antisemitism, Gideon Falter, said: ‘Clearly Hamas feels that when it comes to Jews, Jeremy Corbyn is a brother in arms.

MAY 17, 2019ByBENJY SINGER
Britain's opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn acknowledges his audience prior to giving his keynote speech at the Labour Party Conference in Brighton, Britain, September 27, 2017.