Sumud Amid the Ongoing Nakba

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Experiencing Ethnic Cleansing in Real Time

During a recent visit to Palestine, American Cassanda Dixon was violently assaulted by an Israeli setter. She shares her account of the attack, as well as her effort to hold the assailant accountable under the law.

Erasure vs Sumud: How the Nakba Came to Define the Collective Palestinian Identity

"The current Israeli occupation and entrenched racial apartheid regime in Palestine are not simply the intended or unintended outcomes of the Nakba, but rather direct manifestations of a Nakba that never truly concluded," Ramzy Baroud writes.

Remembering the 75th Anniversary of the Nakba and Beyond

"My message to our Zionist oppressors is this: 75 years of killing, wounding, torturing, stealing, demolishing homes and destroying Palestinian lives and properties are enough," Rev. Alex Awad implores. "You have the power to make peace with us if you desire to do so."

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Settler Colonialism: An Introduction

Over the past decade, the concept of settler colonialism has risen to the forefront as a paradigm for understanding myriad conflicts over the sweep of world history. Indeed, from ancient times to modern day Palestine, settler colonialism has ignited devastating ethnic conflicts and struggles between indigenous people and exogenous interlopers.

In the opening pages of Settler Colonialism: An Introduction, Englert deftly underscores the relentlessness of the settler drive to accumulate land and the moral blindness of settler projects. Settler colonialization invariably spurs indigenous resistance, which in turn prompts violent settler repression backed by racist discourses and claims as to the inevitability and justifiability of settler domination.

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