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Zachary Foster Profile picture
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May 15 • 7 tweets • 4 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
Today is #Nakba75.

700K Palestinians were ethnically cleansed from their homes in 1948 by Israel.

Here are 5 threads to learn about what happened in '48 & why the Nakba is not history, it's present:
Palestinians are still being ethnically cleansed nearly every day of the year. Image
This thread is from @DecolonizePS. It's a great 101, explains the basics of what happened clearly & concisely. Support them on Patreon! (patreon.com/decolonizepale…).
This great thread is from Muhammad Shehada
@muhammadshehad2 & debunks the single most popular Zionist myth circulating today, namely, that the Arabs rejected peace in the 1948 War that led to the ethnic cleansing.
Mohammed El-Kurd @m7mdkurd delivers a hard-hitting thread trying to get at core issue, Zionism. Read his piece in the Nation too. here's an excerpt from that: Image
Love this thread by @jennineak. Reads like a novel about what it's like to be a refugee.
Here @YousefMunayyer delivers excellent commentary, showing how the paper of record, the New York Times, repeats a a common myth about the 1948 War.
If you want more content like this, you can add your email here and get interesting content about Palestine in your inbox palestinenexus.com Image

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May 16
The Nakba was not just something that happened in 1948, but something that started before 1948 and continued long after it, indeed, to the present day.

The fate of the Moroccan Neighborhood of Jerusalem, which was ethnically cleansed in June 1967, is a good example of this. Image
The Zionists coveted the whole Arab neighborhood in front of the Western Wall for decades. Jews tried to purchase either part or all the neighborhood, the Moroccan Quarter, Harat al-Magharibah, in 1887, 1895, 1919 and 1926, usually to be able to remove its native inhabitants.
The chairman of the Palestine Zionist Executive, Frederick Kisch, stated in 1926 that the Zionist objective at that time was to "quietly evacuate the Moroccan occupants of those houses which it would later be necessary to demolish" to create more space for Jewish worshippers.
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May 3
This was the first Ottoman printed map of Palestine, published in Istanbul (Üsküdar) as El-Ucaletü l-coğrafıyye in 1804.

The author of the map was Mahmud Raif Efendi (d.1808), the Reis ül-Küttab, or Foreign Minister, as well as the first Ottoman diplomat stationed in London. Image
Have a look at the spelling of the name 'Palestine': فلاستان. An (ا) has been added after the (ل), and a (ت) has been used rather than a (ط), and then another (ا) has been added before the final (ين). The names Tiberias, Nablus, Mount Karmel, Beirut are also spelled wrong! Image
The map also includes the following labels: Druzi (was is today Lebanon) Syria, Iraq of the Arabs (green), Jazira (pink), Kurdistan (blue) Armenia (yellow) and other regions.

The map was probably used as a textbook in many Ottoman state schools during the 19th century.
Sources: Image
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May 2
How does Israeli apartheid work?

Here's a collection of examples in terms of conviction rates in courts, administrative detention statistics, housing discrimination and policing practices.

And, if you wanted a second opnion: Image
Conviction Rate
Administrative Detention (1 of 2)
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Mar 30
Today is Land Day.

On this day in 1976, Israel murdered 6 unarmed Palestinian protestors.

They were protesting Israel's announcement of a plan to expropriate thousands of dunams of Palestinian land.

So why was Israel stealing Palestinian land?
In the decades leading up to 1948, Zionists only managed to buy ~6% of the land of British Mandatory Palestine. This was obviously a problem for a group of people trying to establish a state much much larger area than just that 6% of British Mandatory Palestine.
So, after the 1948 War, Israel confiscated 4.2-6.6 million dunams of Palestinian property. This included over 59,000 Palestinian apartments & houses, 11,000 businesses, 6,200 bank accounts, vehicles, tens of thousands of books & manuscripts, equipment and more.
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Mar 28
Israel is in the headlines because it almost just experienced a judicial coup.

Here’s a quick primer on what's been going on, with a bit of historical and political context:
The state of Israel was founded in 1948 by settler-colonists known as Zionists.

Settler colonialists were groups of people who often faced persecution in their home countries so they fled, permanently moving to distant lands already inhabited by other peoples.
Whenever this happened, in the US, South Africa, New Zealand, Australia & Israel/Palestine, it had disastrous consequences for the native inhabitants, including esp. displacement, eviction, confinement, cultural erasure, ethnic cleansing & in the most extreme cases, genocide
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Mar 23
In the coming weeks:

🕌 Muslims -> Ramadan
⛪️ Christians -> Easter
🕍 Jews -> passover

On this festive occasion, let's recall a time in late Ottoman Palestine, early 1900s, before the rise of Zionism, when Jews, Christians & Muslims celebrated each other's holidays together! Image
This is a passage from Salim Tamari, Jerusalem's Ottoman Modernity: The Times and Lives of Wasif Jawhariyyeh, The Jerusalem Quarterly palestine-studies.org/en/node/78121

A few other facts facts about life in Jerusalem in late Ottoman Palestine:
The division of the city into 4 confessional quarters was a later development.

The al-Wad neighborhood, for instance, was home to 3 churches, 3 synagogues & 7 mosques.

Muslims, Christians & Jews lived on the same streets & shopped in the same stores (source: Michelle Campos).
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