Remembering the Nakba while witnessing a genocide

On May 14, around 300 Israelis and Palestinians gathered in the West Bank town of Beit Jala, along with thousands who joined online, for the sixth annual Joint Israeli-Palestinian Nakba Remembrance Ceremony, organized by Combatants for Peace.

Featuring personal testimonies and musical performances, the ceremony commemorated the 1948 Nakba, when Zionist militias and the nascent Israeli army expelled 750,000 Palestinians from their homes, destroyed or depopulated over…