
My Grandfather Resisted the Nakba. It Still Isn’t Over.
Palestinians mark May 15 as Nakba Day, anniversary of the foundation of Israel. That state was born amid mass displacement and ethnic cleansing — and it’s getting even worse today.
Kieran Andrieu is a British Palestinian political commentator. He holds a doctorate in political economy.
Palestinians mark May 15 as Nakba Day, anniversary of the foundation of Israel. That state was born amid mass displacement and ethnic cleansing — and it’s getting even worse today.
Unlike many prominent poets of his era, W. H. Auden was crystal clear on the need to fight fascism in Franco’s Spain and Hitler’s Germany, and he wrote some of the greatest antiwar poetry ever set to page.