BACKGROUNDER: Palestinian Arab and Jewish Refugees
By: Gilead Ini / May 12, 2009 & On May 15, many Palestinians and their supporters mark what they call “Nakba Day,” a commemoration focusing on their view that the reconstitution of a Jewish state in Israel was a “catastrophe.” The commemoration is often accompanied by a flurry of opinion pieces and news stories conveying […]
BACKGROUNDER: The Palestinian Claim to a “Right of Return”
By: Alex Safian, PhD / September 1, 2000 Do Palestinians who fled Israel in 1948, and their descendants, have a legal or moral right to return to their former homes in Israel? Is it true that most other refugees around the world have already exercised such rights of repatriation? Palestinian spokesmen, and groups including Amnesty […]