The Nakba, commemorated annually on this day as "Nakba Day", was the destruction of Palestinian society and homeland in 1948 following Israel's creation. Nakba Day protests take place around the world and have been attacked by Israel.

The foundational events of the Nakba took place during and shortly after the 1947-1949 Palestine war, including 78% of Mandatory Palestine being declared as Israel, the exodus of 700,000 Palestinians, the depopulation and destruction of over 500 Palestinian villages and subsequent geographical erasure, the denial of the Palestinian right of return, and the creation of permanent, stateless Palestinian refugees.

Although May 15th had been used as an unofficial commemoration of the Nakba since 1949, Nakba Day was formalized in 1998 after Yasser Arafat proposed that Palestinians should mark the 50th anniversary of the Nakba during the First Intifada.

The Nakba was a key event in the development of Palestinian culture and is a foundational symbol of Palestinian identity, along with "Handala", a ten-year old cartoon character developed by Naji al-Ali; the keffiyeh, a checkered black and white scarf worn around the head; and the "symbolic key" (many Palestinian refugees have kept the keys to the homes they were forced to flee).

On Nakba Day 2011, Palestinians and other Arabs from the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, Lebanon, and Syria marched towards their respective borders, or ceasefire lines and checkpoints in Israeli-occupied territories, to mark the event. At least twelve Palestinians and supporters were killed and hundreds wounded as a result of shootings by the Israeli Army.

"In resisting the Nakba, the Palestinians have struck at the heart of the Zionist project that insists that the Nakba be seen as a past event. In resisting Israel, Palestinians have forced the world to witness the Nakba as present action; one that, contrary to Zionist wisdom, is indeed reversible." - Palestinian scholar Joseph Massad

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  • Leon_Frotsky [she/her]
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    6 months ago

    wtf is up with destiny fans? why tf would anyone spend the majority of their spare time harassing people on the internet over literally just saying their favourite middle aged fascist cuck loser wasn't pleasant to be around?

    • Leon_Frotsky [she/her]
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      6 months ago

      very normal reaction to someone saying you use wikipedia too much: debatejak "there is a islamist communist cabal of twitch streamers controlled by Hasan out to get me and i hope they all OD on fent together like Jonestown to follow in the footsteps of one of their dads who died from an overdose. Also website's selling ai deepfake porn of ludwig's girlfriend is funny and i would buy it. Also also, genocide is cool"

      like how tf is he posting shit like this and thinking it makes him look like a cool likable person or whatever:

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      • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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        6 months ago

        Huh. Using the hard R now.

        Is his brand "i'm a tough smart guy who is tougher and smarter than these losers?"

      • memory_adept [he/him]
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        6 months ago

        have you considered this may not be about being a cool and likeable person and twitch debate is a useless pastime favored by right wingers because it lets them emulate the most incoherent intellectual environment known to man: US competitive policy debate, but with even less rigor and open insults