Summary
The Association for the Defense of the Rights of the Internally Displaced in Israel, the principal body representing the internal refugees in Israel — more than a quarter of a million people — founded after the 1991 Madrid Conference failed to broach the subject of refugees, in Chapter 11 of Rethinking Statehood in Palestine (Rethinking Statehood in Palestine, PDF p.307-308).
Details
- Since 1998 it has organized an annual March of Return on Israel’s Independence Day, marching to the site of a different 1948-destroyed village each year, to remind the Jewish public of Israel of the price the Palestinians paid for Jewish independence (PDF p.307-308).
- Its vision of the future is to create clear educational and cultural spaces in which to de-erase what was wiped out in the 1948 Nakba, through constant exploration of the legal possibilities for return to demolished villages and for compensation (PDF p.308).
- Its strategies, such as the demand for the collective memory of the Nakba to be part of the identity and ethos of any future political entity that would come out of a process of reconciliation and peace, are in the chapter’s account similar to those used in other indigenous struggles (PDF p.308).
Related pages
Rethinking Statehood in Palestine, Ilan Pappe, Indigeneity, Right of Return, Great March of Return