{"id":25297,"date":"2015-05-14T12:07:57","date_gmt":"2015-05-14T20:07:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=25297"},"modified":"2015-05-15T07:21:45","modified_gmt":"2015-05-15T15:21:45","slug":"israels-repression-of-nakba-day-may-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/14\/israels-repression-of-nakba-day-may-15\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel&#8217;s Repression of Nakba Day (May 15)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow is Nakba Day, which commemorates\u00a0the mass dispossession\u00a0of Palestinians that accompanied the foundation of the State of Israel. Read &#8220;The more Israel represses the Nakba, the stronger the memories&#8221; by Gideon Levy in Haaretz. Use the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/misc\/article-print-page\/.premium-1.656327?trailingPath=2.169%2C2.223%2C\">printer-friendly<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/webcache.googleusercontent.com\/search?q=cache:LucT8SZ-oiUJ:www.haaretz.com\/opinion\/.premium-1.656327+&amp;cd=11&amp;hl=en&amp;ct=clnk&amp;gl=us&amp;client=safari\">Google cache<\/a> version to bypass the paywall.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;But the truth is that there is no greater proof of Israel\u2019s insecurity about the justness of its cause than the battle waged to forbid marking the Nakba. A people confident in its path would respect the feelings of the minority, and not try to trample on its heritage and memories. A people that knows something terrible is burning under its feet sees every reference to what happened as an existential threat.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For more details on Israeli repression of Nakba commemoration, see\u00a0&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/opinion\/chilling-effect-of-the-nakba-law-on-israel-s-human-rights-1.430942\">Chilling effect of the Nakba Law on Israel&#8217;s human rights<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For more on Nakba Day itself, see &#8220;What is Nakba Day? A brief history&#8221; by Elon Gilad (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/misc\/article-print-page\/.premium-1.656267?trailingPath=2.169%2C2.216%2C2.221%2C\">printer-friendly<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/webcache.googleusercontent.com\/search?q=cache:TFVAXy_u0dAJ:www.haaretz.com\/news\/features\/.premium-1.656267+&amp;cd=11&amp;hl=en&amp;ct=clnk&amp;gl=us&amp;client=safari\">Google cache<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: Also see\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/antiwar.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/15\/essential-reading-for-nakba-day\">Essential Reading for Nakba Day<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow is Nakba Day, which commemorates\u00a0the mass dispossession\u00a0of Palestinians that accompanied the foundation of the State of Israel. Read &#8220;The more Israel represses the Nakba, the stronger the memories&#8221; by Gideon Levy in Haaretz. Use the printer-friendly or Google cache version to bypass the paywall. &#8220;But the truth is that there is no greater proof [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":193,"featured_media":25299,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,41],"tags":[498],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-25297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-israel","category-palestine","tag-nakba"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/4285668856.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/193"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25297"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25304,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25297\/revisions\/25304"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25297"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=25297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}