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The Nakba at 75: Remembering, Forgetting, and Erasing

By: Ronan Burtenshaw

The 75th anniversary of the Nakba marks the expulsion of over 750,000 Palestinians from their homeland in 1948. Decades later, the fight against dispossession continues.

(Photo by Bettmann / Getty Images)

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Few places express the Palestinian experience of ‘Nakba’ or ‘Catastrophe’ more sharply than the small fishing village of Tantura, which was wiped off the map in a single day 75 years ago. In the decades since, Palestinians have recounted how the Israeli Haganah carried out a massacre in the town and buried the victims in […]

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Few places express the Palestinian experience of ‘Nakba’ or ‘Catastrophe’ more sharply than the small fishing village of Tantura, which was wiped off the map in a single day 75 years ago. In the decades since, Palestinians have recounted how the Israeli Haganah carried out a massacre in the town and buried the victims in […]

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Few places express the Palestinian experience of ‘Nakba’ or ‘Catastrophe’ more sharply than the small fishing village of Tantura, which was wiped off the map in a single day 75 years ago. In the decades since, Palestinians have recounted how the Israeli Haganah carried out a massacre in the town and buried the victims in […]

Few places express the Palestinian experience of ‘Nakba’ or ‘Catastrophe’ more sharply than the small fishing village of Tantura, which was wiped off the map in a single day 75 years ago. In the decades since, Palestinians have recounted how the Israeli Haganah carried out a massacre in the town and buried the victims in […]

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