Author: Students for Justice in Palestine

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Several weeks ago, the United Nations released a statement telling us what Palestinians have known for decades since the Nakba: that Israel has established an apartheid regime. Meaning “the Catastrophe,” the Nakba refers to the time when over 700,000 Palestinians — Muslim, Christian, and Jewish alike — were violently uprooted and expelled