Speaking Across Generations and Geographies of the Ongoing Nakba at Seventy-six

Comprehending the ferocious scale of Israel's genocidal war on Gaza means reckoning with Palestinians' history and ongoing experience of Nakba, or "catastrophic dispossession." The events of 2023-2024 elicited narratives of 1947-1948 that demonstrate how the start of the Nakba made possible forms of violence that have continued for decades and have now intensified dramatically: Palestinians injured and killed in their homes, dispossession, dehydration that leads to death, imprisonment, and military siege. Stories that bridge generational differences and geographic fragmentation bring Palestinians back into community with each other. For Palestinians as for other Indigenous people, stories seed and sustain resistance and collectivity. Histories and rituals of Indigenous survivance of hundreds of years of eliminatory violence on Turtle Island-as well as Indigenous unity with Palestinians today-strengthen Palestinian community at a time of pervasive threat. Storytelling and media making that counter mass media narratives and hold up the perspectives of marginalized groups within Palestinian society are integral to building vital and democratic futures

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