The congresswoman said that this measure is intended to recognize the forced displacement of Palestinians during the establishment of the state of Israel.
Washington DC – US Representative Rashida Tlaib said she has introduced a resolution to recognize Nakba of the Palestiniansa term used to describe the forced displacement of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians prior to the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948.
Tlaib said she introduced the resolution in the US House of Representatives on Monday, a day after the Palestinians marks the 74th anniversary of the founding of Nakba.
“Nakba is well documented and continues to play to this day,” said Tlaib, of Palestinian descent, Written on Twitter. “We must acknowledge that Palestinian humanity is being denied as people refuse to acknowledge war crimes and human rights abuses in Israel according to racism.”
The Democratic congresswoman said the resolution was unanimously supported Betty McCollumMarie Newman, Ilhan Omar and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
Although unlikely to pass in a pro-Israel House of Commons, Palestinian rights advocates were quick to hail the measure as “historic”.
The Institute for the Understanding of the Middle East (IMEU), an advisory organization that supports Palestinian rights, thanked Tlaib for “giving a voice to this reality and highlighting the pain and injustice suffered by Palestinians.” contain”.
BREAK: @RepRashida introduced a historic House resolution recognizing Nakba, the disaster that occurred 74 years ago and resulted in the murder of thousands of Palestinians, forcing the eviction of more than 700,000 from their homes.
– IMEU (@theIMEU) May 16, 2022
In a series of tweets, IMEU said in a series of tweets: “During the creation of Israel, nearly 75% of the Palestinian population was ethnically wiped out of Palestine and over 400 Palestinian villages destroyed. “These actions are deliberately planned and carried out by Zionist militias to steal Palestinian land.”
Millions the survivors of Nakba – disaster in Arabic – and their descendants continue to live in refugee camps in the West Bank and Gaza, as well as in neighboring Arab countries.
Nakba is rarely discussed in mainstream US politics, as Israel has enjoyed widespread support from legislators and successive presidents of both major parties for decades.
Israel received US$3.8 billion in military aid annually, and this year Washington added another 1 billion dollars to “replenish” Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system after the Gaza conflict in May 2021.
However, in late 2016, during the final days of Barack Obama’s presidency, then-Secretary of State John Kerry acknowledged Nakba in his remarks on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
“As Israel celebrates its 70th anniversary in 2018, Palestinians will mark a very different anniversary: 70 years since what they call ‘Nakba’ or disaster,” he said.
Palestinians around the world celebrated Nakba Day on Sunday with rallies highlighting the right of Palestinian refugees to return. They also demand justice for journalist Al Jazeera Shireen Abu Aklehwho was killed by Israeli forces in the West Bank last week.
On Monday, the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights, an advocacy group, called Tlaib’s resolution a “historic moment”.
“For too long, the Palestinian experience has been ignored by Washington, and the Palestinians have been annoyed by trying to tell their story. Thank you [Tlaib] to give voice to this reality, and to highlight the pain and injustice that Palestinians have endured,” the group wrote on Twitter.
It added: “We must shift U.S. foreign policy from facilitating Israel’s ongoing Palestinian displacement with military funding — and toward accountability.”
A historic moment: Today @RepRashida introduced a House of Commons resolution recognizing the Palestinian Nakba on the 74th anniversary of this horrific crime against the Palestinian people that continues and shapes their experience to this day. # Nakba74 pic.twitter.com/QJmpqIfpdp
– #SaveMasaferYatta USCPR (@USCPR_) May 16, 2022
