NewAge Longreads

— United News of Bangladesh by Nawshin Flora NAKBA, commonly translated as ‘the catastrophe,’ was not the first major incident of Zionist expansionism in historic Palestine — the first Jewish settlements preceded the event by decades— but it was the episode of mass ethnic cleansing that split the history of Palestine and its inhabitants into one of dispossessed subjects. Every year, May 15 is observed as Nakba Day by Palestinians, for half (major sources estimate 750,000 peop

Palestinian students paint graffiti during a commemoration event held at a school ahead of the 78th Nakba anniversary on May 10 in Hebron, West Bank. — Middle East Monitor /Wisam Hashlamoun by Nazifa Jannat As another year passes since the 1948 Catastrophe, the displacement of the Palestinian people remains the most glaring wound on the conscience of the international community. For us in Bangladesh, a nation that rose from the ashes of a scorched-earth genocide in 1971, the

— Naji al-Ali by Shovon Das THE history of modern Palestine cannot be understood without beginning with the Nakba — the violence of 1948 that led to the mass displacement of more than 700,000 Palestinians during the creation of Israel. Entire villages were massacred, families scattered across borders, and a people transformed into one of the world’s longest-standing refugee populations. Yet the Nakba was never simply a historical event confined to the past. For Palestinians

Dr. Nagesh Rao — Drik Marxist scholar Nagesh Rao, who teaches English and Modern Languages at Independent University, Bangladesh, discusses in an interview with Saydia Gulrukh of New Age the possibilities of building Palestine solidarity beyond symbolic action in the context of Bangladesh. New Age: As Palestinians mark 78 years of the Nakba, and as the world witnesses 946 days of Israel’s ongoing assault on Gaza since October 7, 2023, are we entering a moment where genocid