As Israelis Celebrate Independence and Palestinians Mark the Nakba, a Debate with Benny Morris, Saree Makdisi and Norman Finkelstein
Sixty years since the creation of Israel and displacement of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians, we host a debate on the legacy of 1948 and the possibility of a just future for both Israelis and Palestinians with three guests: Benny Morris, seen as one of the most important Israeli historians of the 1948 war and after; Saree Makdisi, UCLA professor and author of
Palestine Inside Out; and Norman Finkelstein, author of several books, including
Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict and
Beyond Chutzpah
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Israeli Writer-Activist Tikva Honig-Parnass, Who Fought for Israels Founding in 1948, on 60 Years of Palestinian Dispossession and Occupation
We continue our coverage of the sixtieth anniversary of the founding of the state of Israel, what Palestinians call the
Nakba, or catastrophe. We begin with Tikva Honig-Parnass, an Israeli who fought with Jewish paramilitary units and the Israeli army, participating in the military operations that expelled over 750,000 Palestinians. Today, shes an anti-Zionist leftist writer and activist who has been involved with anti-occupation, womens, and Mizrahi movements in Israel since the 1960s.
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