Speaking Across Generations and Geographies of the Ongoing Nakba

Speaking Across Generations and Geographies of the Ongoing Nakba

Presented by the Center for Research on Race and Ethnicity in Society

Nakba, literally catastrophe, is a Palestinian concept for thinking about ongoing settler colonial dispossession since at least 1948. Thinking with this concept, we can see between 1948 and 2024 not just a repeat of past violence but also how past forms of violence are used by Israel to attempt to legitimize or set in motion current violence. How do Palestinians conceive moving forward today, a time of ongoing dispossession, repression of dissent, and death? In this talk, I propose that conversations that span geographic and generational difference are integral to maintaining Palestinian collectivity and to charting a path forward. Indigenous histories of struggle and storytelling exemplify how Palestinians can continue this work today.