{"id":1299,"date":"2012-05-16T10:01:13","date_gmt":"2012-05-16T16:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.elca.org\/peacenotwalls\/?p=1299"},"modified":"2012-05-16T10:01:13","modified_gmt":"2012-05-16T16:01:13","slug":"clashing-memories-in-israel-and-the-occupied-palestinian-territories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.elca.org\/elcasumud\/clashing-memories-in-israel-and-the-occupied-palestinian-territories\/","title":{"rendered":"Clashing memories in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.elca.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2012\/05\/pnwnakbaday.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1300\" style=\"margin: 10px\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.elca.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2012\/05\/pnwnakbaday-300x173.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"173\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.elca.org\/elcasumud\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2012\/05\/pnwnakbaday-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.elca.org\/elcasumud\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2012\/05\/pnwnakbaday.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Late April and early May mark a stark contrast for Israelis and Palestinians.\u00a0 This year, the state of Israel celebrated 64 years of independence in late April.\u00a0 But on May 15, Palestinians commemorated the same events as a tragedy they call Al Nakba &#8211; the Catastrophe, when 800,000 Palestinians became refugees by being displaced by the very people who now celebrate\u00a0 independence.\u00a0 In Israel, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/news\/national\/at-last-minute-haifa-university-cancels-nakba-event-1.430859\" target=\"_blank\">several universities were prohibited from holding events that would have acknowledged the Palestinian reality.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel\/Home.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0The Jerusalem Post has several articles about Israel&#8217;s\u00a0celebration<\/a>.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/opinion\/nakba-is-part-of-israel-s-history-1.430501\" target=\"_blank\"> Haaretz has an article encouraging the right of Palestinians to\u00a0acknowledge the event from their perspective\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0as well as an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/opinion\/recognizing-nakba-reaching-peace-1.430637\" target=\"_blank\">op-ed by Hanan Ashrawi.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Late April and early May mark a stark contrast for Israelis and Palestinians.\u00a0 This year, the state of Israel celebrated 64 years of independence in late April.\u00a0 But on May 15, Palestinians commemorated the same events as a tragedy they call Al Nakba &#8211; the Catastrophe, when 800,000 Palestinians became refugees by being displaced by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[479],"tags":[8150,8059],"class_list":["post-1299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-israeli-independence-day","tag-nakba"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - 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