"The Nakba Continues - From 1948 to the brutal war on Gaza" says Phyllis Bennis

A statement delivered by Phyllis Bennis on May 17, 2024, at a panel discussion titled “1948-2024: The Ongoing Palestinian Nakba” convened by the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People at the United Nations Headquarters in New York.
In her intervention, Phyllis Bennis highlights the ongoing Nakba (catastrophe) faced by the Palestinian people since 1948, juxtaposing it with the global advances in human rights during the same period. She underscores the role of settler colonialism and the complicit support of some states in perpetuating the crisis, particularly in Gaza. Bennis calls for an immediate ceasefire, emphasizing the deliberate nature of ethnic cleansing and the dire humanitarian situation. She stresses the importance of global solidarity and the need to "unite with the United Nations to fight against genocide and for the rights of Palestinians", drawing parallels to the successful global movement against South African apartheid.
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0:36 "1948 saw the birth of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the birth of the Convention against Genocide. It could have set the stage for an era of human rights in the post-World War II era."
1:31 "The Nakba of 1948 transformed Palestinian history and it consolidated one of the last colonial projects in the era of decolonization."
4:18 "The deliberate nature of these attacks, we see the plan because it's the same plan, the plan for ethnic cleansing, for seizing the land, for settling new colonies on what had been Palestinian land."
7:49 "The Nakba process that has been underway, the specific intent required by the Convention against Genocide was made very clear by Israeli officials."
10:11 "Israeli cruelty seen across the world on our screens has not fallen on deaf ears. There is a movement that has risen across the world to say no to genocide."
15:24 "The justice generation has been pretty active lately and are changing the political character of what political leaders across this country have to take into account."
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[@shamim621]

Thank you so much Ma'am.justice, humanity,peace,love. Free Palestine

[@gabrielderman974]

You must be 10 years old

[@shamim621]

@@gabrielderman974 am so glad you found the time to engage with a 10yr old. Do you have mommy issues?

[@shamim621]

@@gabrielderman974 the haz-bara bosses are not paying you much? Do they still feed you on that koolaid? Poor thing🥺

[@kimyoung2748]

​@@shamim621Just a fool who has nothing to offer but idiocy.

[@RazorMouth]

​@@gabrielderman974 2 international courts after Israel and you still won't wake up. 🙄

[@marygoff5472]

Palestinian people will be FREE!!! We send love!❤️

[@waltermesser9737]

They are free. The problem is when you give freedom to them they do stupid things.

[@miriammayost4135]

From life😂😂😂

[@kimyoung2748]

​@@waltermesser9737Oh really! Why don't you tell us about those stupid things they do?

[@contra-stupidity]

1948, most of the African nations were colonized. Open you eyes , the declaration of human rights and the convention against genocide applies to the nations that used to be in the UN and many of these colonialists. This means the declaration and convention were to Whites only.

[@genevieve4418]

​@@miriammayost4135 after your freedom of life!!! 😂😂😂 !!! 😅😅😅 !!!

[@khadijarahman2409]

The whole wirld should help Palestinian for their freedom from this inhuman and brutal Holocaust 🥺🇵🇸

[@raziablanchard2711]

And the perpetrators be charged

[@ChefbyMistake]

What about Sudan more people are getting killed.

[@NoctLightCloud]

​@@ChefbyMistakethis is the hipocricy of the media

[@diannafeliciano5208]

​@@NoctLightCloudyou're watching that hypocrisy now

[@NoctLightCloud]

@@diannafeliciano5208 I know, I'm on your side. I didn't watch this video btw

[@mqi7269]

Salutes You All Respected Free Honored People, Free Palestine Stop Apartheid Stop Genocide Stop Killing Stop Stealing

[@raziablanchard2711]

Peace & Freedom for All people all over the world.

[@magentamagenta1274]

@mqi7269 Stop murder Stop rape Stop abuse Stop killing innocent people Stop jihads Stop hatred ✋

[@jutswheezie]

I agree - free the world from Muslim occupation!!!!

[@nazarmawj338]

This speech must distribute all over the world. And must be written with Goldwater.

[@rezwanarahman4978]

We also need a "Sudan Rights Committee "... we should also talk about ongoing Genocide and massive displacement of Sudanese.

[@CarolynGlazer]

Definitely ….

[@raziablanchard2711]

Yes, Sudanese & Congress people people

[@UdiKoomran]

Sudan ? Its never mentioned neither is Yemen or Syria the woke west only care when jews are involved

[@RazorMouth]

Yes agreed but it's not up to the west to solve all of the world's problems. Western countries are supplying Israel with support and that's why that should be our primary focus.

[@suzannenobel6809]

The two are interconnected

[@user-su3eu4zu9z]

In 1948 the world just watched on the news and done nothing, in 2024 the whole world is watching live and standing up for Palestine. The World is watching. Those complicit in these 7 decades will never be forgotten or forgiven.

[@DENGODFREY]

Phyllis has always been a highly articulate, highly informed class act. Her words on Palestine are always so important.

[@raziablanchard2711]

God bless her & keep her safe

[@rezwanarahman4978]

Free free free Palestine 🇵🇸. 🇵🇸 Never again is never again for everyone.

[@Leftseat52UT]

Kudos to Phyllis Bennis! Speaking Truth is the most powerful tool for change! Palestine FOREVER!

[@user-su3eu4zu9z]

PLM Palestine Lives Matter.

[@miriammayost4135]

No they dont😂😂😂

[@user-su3eu4zu9z]

Thank you @@miriammayost4135 , your comment and the comments and actions coming out of israel racist state only serves to remind everyone why israel will never see peace and doesn't deserve too. While israel exists there will never be peace in the Middle East, so why should it exist?

[@user-su3eu4zu9z]

@@miriammayost4135 troll

[@newyorkcitythebigapple359]

@@miriammayost4135 You are inhuman

[@user-so1uf1lr3d]

Thank you very much for speaking truth. FREEDOM FOR PALESTYNA. WE LOVE YOU, from,🇵🇱🇨🇦

[@transluxlyceum3236]

Thank You Phyllis Bennis.

[@Poblenou3]

🇵🇸❤️💔❤️

[@DonnaMcFadden]

Bravo Ms. Bennis for telling truth to power!! Particularly when it is your own Government funding and colluding with the genocide!!🇨🇦❤❤❤❤🇵🇸

[@Stop-and-listen]

“The state of Israel was not created for the salvation of the Jews; it was created for the salvation of western interest.” James Balwin

[@BrokenneckYgor]

Who he, Balwin??

[@user-fb4cw6be6v]

You’re beautiful inside and outside Great speech

[@rafikbaladi6555]

How eloquent your presentation is, Ms. Bennis. Your contribution to equitable justice is powerful. The Nakba, hence, should be celebrated yearly as a Palestinian heritage pivotal point marking the move from the betrayal of Western leaders to Palestinians, onward to a live commitment to ensure it will not happen again, at any cost. It is the horrifying Palestinian Holocaust. WOW: "The justice generation!"

[@raziablanchard2711]

Thank You Phyllis Bennis, you've got the ball rolling. A true Humanitarian.

[@ala.r609]

Ms Benni's must be awarded for many awards for Her noble and just views, and Her aim for the restoration of human rights of the native Palestinian rights and their historic home land.

[@ceciler6534]

Jews for Peace - Biden needs to listen to them, to the students on campuses and to 80 % of his own party. Truth-telliing at it's best.

[@thomasnicodemou5160]

Phyllis Bennis nailed it yet again. It’s encouraging and refreshing to hear such comprehensive take on the Israeli- Palestinian conflict

[@oblomofff]

Shame on israel!

[@natankaaren1207]

shame on Hamas

[@user-su3eu4zu9z]

@@natankaaren1207 shame on you.

[@shasha14779]

​@@natankaaren1207shame on you both and Israel

[@shasha14779]

Right . shame on Israel and his supporter

[@RazorMouth]

​​@@natankaaren1207 Israels policies and actions created Hamas. They wouldn't exist without Israel's actions of apartheid, land theft, home theft and brutal occupation. And what's worse, Israel and others know this very well. For every 💣 dropped it creates more Hamas fighters. What do you think a child does when he loses his parents? Joins Hamas. Or a father that loses his family? Wake up.

[@christie883]

Kudos to this Brave and honorable woman!water tight facts presented in a brilliant way! 💜

[@arimagoo4687]

🙏🤲🙏🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🤲🙏🤲

[@ahhaz8324]

Ecellent speech.

[@RoyalBlue292]

Africa and the Global South stands with Palestine...I lost faith in Humanity 😢

[@Waitingformarty]

I've lost what little faith i ever had in most Western I've lost what little faith i ever had in most Western goverments, particularly US and UK. But have great faith in the groundswell of the people, particularly the students, who are disgusted and who are educating themselves on the true history particularly US and UK. But have great faith in the groundswell of the people, particularly the students, who are disgusted and who are educating themselves on the true history

[@cimuraisampi]

please people give a time to take a look at new Caledonia colonialism by france,

[@bernielamy5135]

No relation! NC is a French department. All citizens have equal right and Kanak people have acquired more right to their legacy, land and afministrative. Australian Aboriginals are still racially discriminante against. They should ask to have similar right to Kanak.

[@morasoussif4168]

Détournement de sujet tactique des sioniste menteurs voleurs et nazis

[@stevenortiz2353]

History did not begin on October 7th 2023.

[@shasha14779]

Right you say 100% . This starting first from 1948, Israel crimes against Palestine people now 76 years suffer people of Palestine. The most world not condem hamas. But there condem Israel 1948 .

[@user-gv1vi4mh1e]

Delete VITO , Free Palestines,Free Humanity and Justice.❤

[@shasha14779]

United States use veto must delete . Right you say

[@Athenais8377]

❤❤MME. PHYLLIS BENNIS❤❤

[@russnrach8]

May God bless and protect you, Madame! Thank you for speaking truth to power with such clarity and courage. Your moral leadership is helping to strengthen the resolve of those who are struggling to bring peace and justice to our world.

[@thomasb7397]

Free the world from politics and violence !

[@geniecarpenter2046]

😢😢😢😢 ❤❤❤❤

[@mstique3957]

Madam, you have a beautiful soul. ❤

[@gloriakelly707]

Phillis, this is disgusting for any one listening to hear. Young people of the world, we have so much to thank you for. Your persistence day after day, week after week,a month after month, even getting your parents to see this injustice in all its cruel forms. Innocent civilians, mothers and children being bombed out of existence. Netanyahu said “give them a few weeks and they would all go back home, end of story, but you did not, you came out in fuller force, in spite of the unjust law for speech😮n

[@DoubleFool-xt4su]

Great speech of truth for good of all humans. Keep exposing the truth is good will only.

[@CarlKaroub]

Thank you Phyllis I am so proud of the young people all across the world. I am 93 years old and I’ve waited for 75 years for this. For the truth to come out of what is really happening in occupied Palestine And the social media is revealing the truth that cannot be denied. Please take good care of your health . We need your beautiful honesty and courage and we love you.

[@gloriache8903]

Thank you Phyllis Bennis👍👍

[@jesuswept1334]

Imagine if the holocaust lasted 75 years and the resistance were labeled terrorists! 😮

[@kenpentel3396]

Thank you

[@boomcity4942]

Thank you!

[@bl7406]

#JillStein2024

[@davidpate3859]

"The Nakba never ended, the colonizer lied" - Macklemore

[@zackr9070]

Nailed it!

[@user-px3nc2qs5e]

Thank you so much for this outstanding presentation ❤❤❤

[@CharlesFlato-wn2qf]

What were people in Ireland, "resistance fighters"?

[@pedropinheiroaugusto3220]

The truth is out, no one can stifle it anymore.

[@jamiah_alias1651]

Thank you madam for sharing the history and the facts abt what's happening..

[@shereerabon8551]

Somehow, with all due respect while naming the atrocities during, before and to date, Black history has been omitted. Here’s a reminder, an excerpt from the LOC regarding Black history’s tragic events during the 1948 period referenced here: “African Americans in the United States faced many challenges from 1849 to 1950, including: Jim Crow laws These laws, which were in place from the post-Civil War era until 1968, legalized racial segregation and severely restricted the rights of Black Americans. Black people were separated from white people in transportation, schools, public accommodations, prisons, and armed forces. They were also denied the right to vote, hold jobs, and get an education. Black people who defied Jim Crow laws often faced violence, arrest, fines, and jail sentences.” The Google search: “What was the condition of the African American in the US period to 1950?”

[@unggrabb]

WE THE PEOPLES OF THE UNITED NATIONS DETERMINED to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, which twice in our lifetime has brought untold sorrow to mankind, and to reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person, in the equal rights of men and women and of nations large and small, and to establish conditions under which justice and respect for the obligations arising from treaties and other sources of international law can be maintained, and

[@malekamina8943]

You should also mention at the same period, the massacres of May 8, 1945, in Algeria which was under French colonization since 1830. A settler occupation made of dispossessions, punitive expeditions, massacres, displacements, destruction of 1/3 of its population, indigenous Code etc... Algeria gained its independence, this is an important precedent that must be constantly reminded and emphasized, and so will Palestine.

[@tecleghebremariam]

Splinded speech‼️ The truth is spoken by people like the speaker. I admire this true speaker🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

[@souadkabalan5659]

What an eloquent honest well informed speaker. Thank you 🙏🏽

[@khaledabunahel3368]

Excellent presentation Phyllis Bennis thank you for your effort and contribution to present the facts and truth relating to the injustice and crimes against the people of Palestine. God bless you.

[@charlesmrader]

1948 was also the first full year of India's independence from Britain, a very significant example of how non-violence could be used as a way to achieve a people's aspirations. I was only nine years old then, but that was old enough to realize that wars are awful and that this was a better way. But the following year, 1948, was when another people had a chance to try non-violence to settle a conflict, and instead chose violence, and brought upon itself the misery of seventy five years, three generations, of needless poverty.

[@arfaamjad9949]

outstanding discourse by an American citizen.Truth prevails.

[@jeromefalasca5118]

What a voice of truth much love and more power to you mam❤

[@user-gt2hv4lr2n]

Leve, leve PALESTINE, long live PALESTINE 🇵🇸 ♥️

[@chxwv]

I think the more knowledge and humanity in a person is , the more disgusted one feels for what has been allowed to happen until October 7 and since then !

[@kneedeacon2309]

Phyllis Bennie - you have a heart of gold, with a human soul- you should be the President of America- the world be a happier n safer place. May God bless ye n keep ye safe. I speak from my heart , I am 82 yrs of age.

[@aallerd]

❤ Stand With Humanity

[@user-gt2hv4lr2n]

HUGE respect for this lady for speak out the truth and the hypocries if the west..BRAVO

[@AndalusPoet]

It’s not the’Nakba’ i.e. ‘catastrophe’ in Arabic. In 1948, it was deliberate mass ethnic cleansing, genocide and societicide: 531 Palestinian villages deliberately destroyed. And then in 1967, more ethnic cleansing. It’s an ongoing demographic colonialist war by Jewish immigrant settler colonialism using many different methods. According to Craig Mukhaiber, the UN human rights lawyer, there was slow incremental genocide against the Gaza Strip before October 7th and now full-blown genocide. There’s an ongoing brutal colonialist and Apartheid demographic war in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. It has always been an ongoing brutal demographic war against the native people by Jewish immigrant colonialists

[@Alexdorio-kc9yf]

Aparthteid is never between two states. West bankers are not israelians citizens.

[@gerriperreault6905]

How can democratic party support Biden! After 60 years, i have left the party.

[@neddor-bm2gu]

1948 war started by Arabs They lost... Nakba, Arab muslims ordered to leave war zone by Arab leaders ( having chosen their side) could not return. Those that refused to obey orders and stayed are the 20% Arab muslim Israelis of today. How many wars have Israel started? How many? ZERO When you start a war and lose, you can't play the victim.

[@r_ds8057]

Wonder if she is ever invited to CNN, MSNBC.

[@williamthurl2607]

Yes , we really need to take lectures on Human rights from Palestine and South Africa and their ' ilk '....

[@mazharquraishi5880]

All the people those can be called pillars of civilization have one thing is common. They judged others on the basis of actions not by skin color, linguistic group, religion, and certainly not by nationality - the most harmful ways of dividing the human race. Lady Bennis you have earned the honor by standing for justice against the people who call themselves Jews but behave as any Nazi, Isis, KKK, Hindutva, and Fascist.. Lately I started doubting Human being as human but you have cleared all my suspicion. Long live Human race as brothers and sisters without hate and bigotry. My humble noble prize to you from my❤..

[@user-gt2hv4lr2n]

Nakba is still going on right in front of our eyes, it started in 1948. Not now.

[@begawan53]

🫀"A true believer can never be comfortatable with cheating or falsehood"(A/BQ)🧠📚⚖️🇪🇭🌍Rabbi🤲Guide Us💞You are the Most Gracious👑the Most Merciful👑

[@newyorkcitythebigapple359]

Please Lets not forger to Share

[@suzannenobel6809]

An honourable lady ❤️🍉🇵🇸

[@randht]

I love peace loving human beings, this lady inspires me and warms my heart. Let’s not say Palestinians are dying, let’s say our fellow human beings are dying, being murdered, because we are all human beings; God’s children, we must love and live with and amongst others.❤❤

[@edaodabasi3147]

Free palestine.thank you Lady.

[@Davpenn1959]

Ok we been talking about it lets do something about it

[@arabakoleman1132]

Something had to give and though the events of October 7th was very horrible, it was a culmination of years of brutality, deep grief, pain and the innate human yearning or the inalienable right to be free and self-determine. We all should support "never again " for all humanity and not selective " never again ."

[@irenezafar966]

neither do i! ... i have always hoped that the sense of honour in the presidential office was slughtly higher than that ....... but it isn't Irene

[@bannersxyz]

The words are endless .. nothing burgers are not food Just do

[@marypaquet3372]

✌️

[@brettmccardle9303]

Why cant the usa have wonen like Phyllis Bennis in charge. She is one of the voices of hope for the western world, along with women like Medea Benjamin of course

[@user-ou1cp4qn9o]

Thanks to everyone who all are hosting this session. My question is when state of Israel was created at the same time why’s not Palestine state created and recognized by the then UN/ league of nations and world leaders! Now when the USA continues to vetoing against Palestine’s membership in the UN then how can anyone expect that the USA would respond to this situation to create a free Palestine. The more the USA stays away from the conflict, the better it is. People lost their belief in the USA that one day they could solve the problem. However we do believe that only younger generations can solve it. Free free Palestine. Thanks.

[@adamfreundlich5295]

A lie that is repeated several times doesn’t become true

[@cherylmburton5577]

She did not mention Ghandi !!!

[@Sword_of_justice103]

Ridiculous

[@margaritayuste4377]

👍

[@tchoukiminer2620]

Thank you Phyllis for your articulate summation of the horror the u.s. promotes and provides! The madness and injustice is overwhelming!

[@user-fv9hm4hl1y]

About 2500 years ago a group of people established what was recognisable as a sovereign state in the area that generally now known as Palestine. They were the Israelites anf were the only group who could claim to be the indigenous people. Anyone who came after the Romans had left are squatters, and have no inalienable rights .

[@moho14]

Free 🌎 for free Palestine 🇵🇸

[@ellekewilms6891]

Thank you, Phyllis Bennis!

[@winfriedbanzhaf1067]

Let us learn from the Bonobo!

[@larjoseph]

The nakba of the Jews lasted 1554 years aprox.; never again is now!!!!

[@reuterromain1054]

What about the 1200 innocent Israeli victims? I didn`t hear anything about them.

[@Nancy-mi3xe]

Here's the Jewish Nakba no one mentions: Country 1948 Today Algeria 140,000 50 Morocco 265,000 2000 Tunisia 150,000 50 Yemen 55,000 50 Syria 40,000 0 Egypt 75,000 40 Libya 38,000 0 Iraq 150,000 7 Turkey 20,000 100 From Jewish Population in Arab Countries.

[@russnrach8]

I’m very sympathetic to the plight of the Jewish people who have been targeted for extermination over thousands of years by multiple nations. I want them to live free from murderous violence wherever they choose to reside in the world. But it’s precisely their long history of persecution that makes this current gen0c1de so tragic. That an oppressed people could themselves become such cruel oppressors breaks my heart. Brutal retribution will never be able to bring about the peace and justice we all long for - it can only bring more violence, more death, more destruction. Lord have mercy

[@andrewgraham1418]

@Nancy-mi3xe It is well documented by Israeli historian Illan Pappé, and others, that Mossad agents posing as Arabs implemented false flag terrorist attacks across the Arab world with the intent of driving the Jewish diaspora, who had been living in their home countries in relative comfort, toward Israel. So even Jewish people by the many thousands, who wanted no part of the Zionist project were made unwitting victims of this mad racist dream.

[@waltermesser9737]

@@russnrach8 Oh! Yeah! What is your proposal? Next time the Jews allowed themselves to be exterminated and the 5 or 6 still alive you gonna give a bus ticket to them? Very intelligent plan! Please keep to yourself your religious bs and know that: 1. No ceasefire 2. That was, is and will be the State of Israel. You are religious the same way Khamenei love the jews.

[@Marius_vanderLubbe]

What an excellent speaker she is.

[@mahastyalamdari4768]

🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏💕💕💕💕💕💕💕

[@user-bw2kv1ou8l]

Free ps

[@Jake-jr2zh]

🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

[@susangaik36]

vote RFK jr. 2024...

[@adnaanabrahams1604]

The US should be re-branded 'The United Fascist States of America '

[@user-lb9ei2kc6s]

Is there any thing such as "United Nations Jews Rights Committee" - If not, Why not?

[@nevertoolate6653]

250k Palestinians already evicted fr their homeland by May 1948 !!

[@regenahregenah6510]

Where did they go,????

[@BenNkhumane]

The temerity,shit it