„Nakba-Aktionstage“: Wandschmierereien, Angriffe auf Polizisten und Festnahmen

BERLINER ZEITUNG: Mehrere tausend Menschen demonstrieren in Kreuzberg und Neukölln gegen Israel. Es wird nicht die einzige Aktion bleiben.

Dieser Screenshot ist von diesem Artikel. | Tumult bei der Demonstration „Schluss mit der Besatzung Palästinas. 78 Jahre Al Nakba“: Die Polizei geht in die Menge. | © Fabian Sommer/dpa
BERLINER ZEITUNG: Mehrere tausend Menschen demonstrieren in Kreuzberg und Neukölln gegen Israel. Es wird nicht die einzige Aktion bleiben.

Das Wochenende in Berlin stand im Zeichen des palästinensischen Kampfes gegen Israel. Etwa 2000 Menschen zogen am Samstagnachmittag durch Kreuzberg nach Neukölln. Die Demonstration unter dem Motto „Schluss mit der Besatzung Palästinas – 78 Jahre Al Nakba“ begann am Oranienplatz und endete am Südstern. Die Demonstranten protestierten gegen Israels Militäraktionen im Gazastreifen und im Libanon sowie gegen den Krieg gegen Iran.

Die Polizei zählte rund 2000 Teilnehmer. Die Stimmung war aufgeheizt und zum Teil aggressiv. Laut Polizei wurden Einsatzkräfte angegriffen und verbotene Parolen skandiert. Auch Journalisten wurden attackiert. » | Andreas Kopietz | Sonntag, 17. Mai 2026

Democracy Now! Nakba Day: Muhammad Shehada on Israel's Ethnic Cleansing in Gaza & Ongoing Palestinian Resilience

May 15, 2026 | Palestinians around the world are marking Nakba Day, 78 years after their forced mass displacement led to the establishment of the Jewish-majority state of Israel. Decades later, Palestinians still face widespread oppression and violence from the Israeli state as it continues its expansionary project. "Israel tried, since 1948 until today, to destroy us as a people, as a group, and they failed at it. Our people are still there, resilient," says Palestinian writer Muhammad Shehada, who was born in Gaza and now lives in Denmark. Shehada discusses the ongoing process of the Nakba, including its latest intensification after October 7, 2023. "Now this veneer of civility has fallen off. The mask was taken off. And now it's a matter of national pride in Israel to brag about annihilating Palestinians."

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Palestinians Demand Historical Reckoning ahead of Nakba Anniversary

May 10, 2026 | May 15 marks the anniversary of the Nakba or 'catastrophe', referring to the 1948 mass displacement of Palestinians during the creation of the state of Israel. For many Palestinians, a future of peace depends on Israel acknowledging this past. Mohammad Al-Kassim reports from Tel Aviv.

Nakba, l'exil palestinien ou le "désastre" | Israël-Palestine, les mots de la guerre

Oct 23, 2023 | "Israël-Palestine, les mots de la guerre", c'est un podcast pour éclairer la guerre qui dure depuis plus d'un siècle entre Israéliens et Palestiniens. Parce que ce conflit est aussi une guerre des récits et des mots, des universitaires reconnus nous expliquent les notions qui sous-tendent cet affrontement.

Dans ce septième épisode, l'historienne et politologue Stéphanie Latte Abdallah revient sur le mot "Nakba". Cette "catastrophe", en langue arabe, qui renvoie à l'exil forcé des Palestiniens.

Al-Nakba: The Palestinian Catastrophe - Episode 1 | Featured Documentary

May 8, 2013 | Al-Nakba: The Palestinian catastrophe "The Nakba did not begin in 1948. Its origins lie over two centuries ago…."

So begins this four-part series on the 'nakba', meaning the 'catastrophe', about the history of the Palestinian exodus that led to the first Arab-Israeli war in 1948, and the establishment of the state of Israel.

This sweeping history starts back in 1799 with Napoleon's attempted advance into Palestine to check British expansion and his appeal to the Jews of the world to reclaim their land in league with France.

The narrative moves through the 19th century and into the 20th century with the British Mandate in Palestine and comes right up to date in the 21st century and the ongoing 'nakba' on the ground.

Arab, Israeli and Western intellectuals, historians and eye-witnesses provide the central narrative which is accompanied by archive material and documents, many only recently released for the first time.

For Palestinians, 1948 marks the 'nakba' or the 'catastrophe', when hundreds of thousands were forced out of their homes.

But for Israelis, the same year marks the creation of their own state.

This series attempts to present an understanding of the events of the past that are still shaping the present.

This story starts in 1799, outside the walls of Acre in Ottoman-controlled Palestine, when an army under Napoleon Bonaparte besieged the city. It was all part of a campaign to defeat the Ottomans and establish a French presence in the region.

In search of allies, Napoleon issued a letter offering Palestine as a homeland to the Jews under French protection. He called on the Jews to ‘rise up’ against what he called their oppressors.

Napoleon’s appeal was widely publicised. But he was ultimately defeated. In Acre today, the only memory of him is a statue atop a hill overlooking the city.

Yet Napoleon's project for a Jewish homeland in the region under a colonial protectorate did not die, 40 years later, the plan was revived but by the British.


Episode 2 here.

Episode 3 here.

Episode 4 here.

Where Does the Middle East Conflict Go from Here? | Inside Story

Tens of thousands of Palestinians gathered at Gaza's border with Israel on the eve of the Nakba anniversary, the day they call "catastrophe".

Al-Nakba
A series on the Palestinian 'catastrophe' of 1948 that led to dispossession and a conflict that endures to this day.