Right-to-Return

Interrogation and Denial: How Israel Keeps Palestinians Down and Out

by Haitham Sabbah May 4, 2007

The following shocking testimony is a sample of what an uprooted Palestinian face if s/he wish to return home, Palestine. Nadia Hasan is a Palestinian woman with a Chilean passport. She is a human rights activist and translator. She visited Palestine once before, but since then, her only “sin” is wishing to set foot in [...]

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A sacred right

by Haitham Sabbah April 3, 2007

Salman Abu-Sitta writes: Facts have a way of surfacing. The facts, documented on maps and records, show that in 1948 Israelis depopulated the Palestinian inhabitants of 675 towns and villages, that their land represents 93% of Israel’s area; that half of all the refugees have been expelled in the last six weeks of the British [...]

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Nakba-Catastrophe Oral History

by Haitham Sabbah August 25, 2006

Palestine Remembered has a video version of all Nakba-Catastrophe Oral History interviews (high speed Internet access is needed, otherwise, the audio or MP3 version is the only option for low speed Internet). Here is a complete listing of over 180 interviews (containing over 600 hours of recording) that have been conducted up to this point: [...]

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SILENT TRANSFER

by Haitham Sabbah August 17, 2006

Here is a report (word doc) released yesterday by two Israeli human and legal rights groups (B’Tselem and HaMoked) regarding the Israeli policy of separating families by denying foreign nationals, mainly Palestinians, entry rights into Israel, thus making it impossible to reach the West Bank and/or Gaza. This policy amounts to SILENT TRANSFER; all happening [...]

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Today is the 58th anniversary of the Nakba, or the “Catastrophe”

by Haitham Sabbah May 15, 2006

Daily life in tents for 6,000 Palestinian residents of Nahr Al-Barid Refugee Camp in Tarablus, Lebanon, 1952. Today, the population of the camp is more than 40,000.. The following quotes are from Palestinain refegees (first generation and second generation) interviewed by IMEU to mark the 58th anneversary of Nakba-Catastrophe. Darwish Addassi wishes his fellow Americans [...]

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