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The Nakba: Background information

Background | Day-School Conference | All Events | Resources Every year Palestinians mark the Nakba – “catastrophe” in English – when in 1948 around 750,000 Palestinians were forcibly expelled from their homes during the creation of the state of Israel. 500 villages were destroyed in a premediated campaign, and their inhabitants never allowed to return. …

Call for end to collective punishment

Today, Director of Palestine Solidarity Campaign, Sarah Colborne, called on the Foreign Secretary, William Hague, to  make urgent representations to the Israeli Government to ‘end their collective punishment against Palestinians.’  Read the text of the letter below: “I am writing to ask you to make urgent representations to the Israeli Government to end their collective …