Settler violence and the new Nakba in the West Bank

The events unfolding in the occupied West Bank can no longer be understood merely as a succession of settler attacks or isolated outbreaks of violence. What is taking shape is a systematic pattern of territorial domination that combines settlement expansion, increasing militarisation, the forced displacement of Palestinian communities and the gradual transformation of the territory’s demography. The central question is no longer whether violence has intensified, but whether Palestine is witnessing the continuation of a historical process that began in 1948: the Nakba. The Arabic word Nakba—”catastrophe”—is commonly associated with the forced displacement of approximately 750,000 Palestinians during the establishment of the State of Israel and the destruction of more than 450 Palestinian towns and villages. Increasingly, however, historians and […]