Palestinians around the world have one thing in common: the inheritance of what our elders endured in the 1948 Nakba, the Arabic word for “catastrophe”, in reference to the brutal Zionist military campaign that led to the creation of the state of Israel that year.
Every year on May 15, these traumatic stories and memories crystallize. As Palestinians, it’s impossible to escape this epigenetic inheritance. The New Arab journalist Elias Jahshan speaks of his own family inheritance, and why it’s important to mourn and commemorate the Nakba.
