IMEU Institute for Middle East Understanding
News & Analysis
A detailed history of the events leading up to Israel's ethnic cleansing campaigns in 1948, when over 400 Palestinian towns were destroyed and 700,000 Palestinians were forcibly displaced from their land.
on June 16, 2020
News & Analysis
An interview with Tarek Bakri, a young Palestinian engineer-turned- accidental-archivist, discussing his project of visually documenting Palestine through a 'then and now' approach in the social media era.
on May 19, 2020
Nakba & Refugees
As Palestinians plan to commemorate the Nakba, Israel's ethnic cleansing, this week, here's a look at pre-Nakba historical photographs offering glimpses of Palestine during the end of the Ottoman rule and the period after the First World War.
on May 11, 2020
Op-Eds & Analysis
"My children and I should be able to farm our land like my father did. Instead, Israeli settlers run a bed and breakfast on it."
on April 3, 2019
News Roundup
In a field south of Haifa, near an Arab village that was depopulated and abandoned in 1948, children read the lyrics of nationalist anthems from their iPhones, while their elders sat beneath awnings, listening to dignitarites and musicians.
on April 19, 2018
Op-Eds & Analysis
Israel’s killing of 18 Palestinian protesters in Gaza last Friday was entirely predictable. It was also entirely avoidable. The victims were taking part in the annual Land Day march commemorating the 1976 killing of six Palestinians who were protesting Israel’s confiscation of thousands of acres of their land.
on April 4, 2018
Op-Eds & Analysis
When Zionist militias forced my grandmother, Rasmiyyah, and her family out of their home in Safad at gunpoint during the 1948 Nakba, the process of settler-colonialism that was propelled by the Balfour Declaration and that culminated in ethnic cleansing became more than just a national tragedy for the indigenous people of Palestine. It became personal.
on November 2, 2017
Videos
“It was the worst scene ever when we were pushed out [by Zionist forces]. Only God knows how much I cried.” A Nakba survivor, 86-year-old Ibrahim lived through displacement in 1948 and has endured 50 years of Israeli occupation.
on June 6, 2017
Videos
Fadwa Khalil was 9 years old when Israel occupied the West Bank, pushing her family out of their home. It was the second time her family was displaced, after Israel forced them out them as part of the ethnic cleansing of 1948.
on June 5, 2017