"The Nakba Continues - 1948 to the brutal war on Gaza" says Phyllis Bennis

"The Nakba Continues - 1948 to the brutal war on Gaza" says Phyllis Bennis
United Nations Palestinian Rights Committee
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A statement delivered by Phyllis Bennis on May 17, 2024, at a panel discussion titled “1948-2024: The Ongoing Palestinian Nakba” convened by the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People at the United Nations Headquarters in New York.

In her intervention, Phyllis Bennis highlights the ongoing Nakba (catastrophe) faced by the Palestinian people since 1948, juxtaposing it with the global advances in human rights during the same period. She underscores the role of settler colonialism and the complicit support of some states in perpetuating the crisis, particularly in Gaza. Bennis calls for an immediate ceasefire, emphasizing the deliberate nature of ethnic cleansing and the dire humanitarian situation. She stresses the importance of global solidarity and the need to "unite with the United Nations to fight against genocide and for the rights of Palestinians", drawing parallels to the successful global movement against South African apartheid.

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0:36 "1948 saw the birth of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the birth of the Convention against Genocide. It could have set the stage for an era of human rights in the post-World War II era."

1:31 "The Nakba of 1948 transformed Palestinian history and it consolidated one of the last colonial projects in the era of decolonization."

4:18 "The deliberate nature of these attacks, we see the plan because it's the same plan, the plan for ethnic cleansing, for seizing the land, for settling new colonies on what had been Palestinian land."

7:49 "The Nakba process that has been underway, the specific intent required by the Convention against Genocide was made very clear by Israeli officials."

10:11 "Israeli cruelty seen across the world on our screens has not fallen on deaf ears. There is a movement that has risen across the world to say no to genocide."

15:24 "The justice generation has been pretty active lately and are changing the political character of what political leaders across this country have to take into account."

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