"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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We also need a "Sudan Rights Committee "... we should also talk about ongoing Genocide and massive displacement of Sudanese.
@CarolynGlazer
Ай бұрын
Definitely ….
@raziablanchard2711
Ай бұрын
Yes, Sudanese & Congress people people
@UdiKoomran
Ай бұрын
Sudan ? Its never mentioned neither is Yemen or Syria the woke west only care when jews are involved
@RazorMouth
Ай бұрын
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
18 күн бұрын
The two are interconnected
Thank you so much Ma'am.justice, humanity,peace,love. Free Palestine
@gabrielderman974
Ай бұрын
You must be 10 years old
@shamim621
Ай бұрын
@@gabrielderman974 am so glad you found the time to engage with a 10yr old. Do you have mommy issues?
@shamim621
Ай бұрын
@@gabrielderman974 the haz-bara bosses are not paying you much? Do they still feed you on that koolaid? Poor thing🥺
@kimyoung2748
Ай бұрын
@@shamim621Just a fool who has nothing to offer but idiocy.
@RazorMouth
Ай бұрын
@@gabrielderman974 2 international courts after Israel and you still won't wake up. 🙄
Salutes You All Respected Free Honored People, Free Palestine Stop Apartheid Stop Genocide Stop Killing Stop Stealing
@raziablanchard2711
Ай бұрын
Peace & Freedom for All people all over the world.
@magentamagenta1274
Ай бұрын
@mqi7269 Stop murder Stop rape Stop abuse Stop killing innocent people Stop jihads Stop hatred ✋
@jutswheezie
16 күн бұрын
I agree - free the world from Muslim occupation!!!!
Palestinian people will be FREE!!! We send love!❤️
@waltermesser9737
Ай бұрын
They are free. The problem is when you give freedom to them they do stupid things.
@miriammayost4135
Ай бұрын
From life😂😂😂
@kimyoung2748
Ай бұрын
@@waltermesser9737Oh really! Why don't you tell us about those stupid things they do?
@contra-stupidity
Ай бұрын
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
29 күн бұрын
@@miriammayost4135 after your freedom of life!!! 😂😂😂 !!! 😅😅😅 !!!
The whole wirld should help Palestinian for their freedom from this inhuman and brutal Holocaust 🥺🇵🇸
@raziablanchard2711
Ай бұрын
And the perpetrators be charged
@ChefbyMistake
Ай бұрын
What about Sudan more people are getting killed.
@NoctLightCloud
Ай бұрын
@@ChefbyMistakethis is the hipocricy of the media
@diannafeliciano5208
Ай бұрын
@@NoctLightCloudyou're watching that hypocrisy now
@NoctLightCloud
Ай бұрын
@@diannafeliciano5208 I know, I'm on your side. I didn't watch this video btw
This speech must distribute all over the world. And must be written with Goldwater.
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.
Kudos to Phyllis Bennis! Speaking Truth is the most powerful tool for change! Palestine FOREVER!
Thank you very much for speaking truth. FREEDOM FOR PALESTYNA. WE LOVE YOU, from,🇵🇱🇨🇦
Phyllis has always been a highly articulate, highly informed class act. Her words on Palestine are always so important.
@raziablanchard2711
Ай бұрын
God bless her & keep her safe
PLM Palestine Lives Matter.
@miriammayost4135
Ай бұрын
No they dont😂😂😂
@user-su3eu4zu9z
Ай бұрын
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
Ай бұрын
@@miriammayost4135 troll
@newyorkcitythebigapple359
Ай бұрын
@@miriammayost4135 You are inhuman
Thank You Phyllis Bennis.
Free free free Palestine 🇵🇸. 🇵🇸 Never again is never again for everyone.
Bravo Ms. Bennis for telling truth to power!! Particularly when it is your own Government funding and colluding with the genocide!!🇨🇦❤❤❤❤🇵🇸
Thank You Phyllis Bennis, you've got the ball rolling. A true Humanitarian.
@ala.r609
Ай бұрын
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.
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.
“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
Ай бұрын
Who he, Balwin??
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!"
Kudos to this Brave and honorable woman!water tight facts presented in a brilliant way! 💜
Phyllis Bennis nailed it yet again. It’s encouraging and refreshing to hear such comprehensive take on the Israeli- Palestinian conflict
You’re beautiful inside and outside Great speech
please people give a time to take a look at new Caledonia colonialism by france,
@bernielamy5135
Ай бұрын
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
26 күн бұрын
Détournement de sujet tactique des sioniste menteurs voleurs et nazis
History did not begin on October 7th 2023.
@shasha14779
Ай бұрын
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 .
Ecellent speech.
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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.
Free the world from politics and violence !
Africa and the Global South stands with Palestine...I lost faith in Humanity 😢
@Waitingformarty
21 күн бұрын
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
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.
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Thank you Phyllis Bennis👍👍
❤❤MME. PHYLLIS BENNIS❤❤
Delete VITO , Free Palestines,Free Humanity and Justice.❤
@shasha14779
Ай бұрын
United States use veto must delete . Right you say
Shame on israel!
@natankaaren1207
Ай бұрын
shame on Hamas
@user-su3eu4zu9z
Ай бұрын
@@natankaaren1207 shame on you.
@shasha14779
Ай бұрын
@@natankaaren1207shame on you both and Israel
@shasha14779
Ай бұрын
Right . shame on Israel and his supporter
@RazorMouth
Ай бұрын
@@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.
Thank you!
Thank you
Great speech of truth for good of all humans. Keep exposing the truth is good will only.
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
Imagine if the holocaust lasted 75 years and the resistance were labeled terrorists! 😮
Nailed it!
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.
Thank you so much for this outstanding presentation ❤❤❤
The truth is out, no one can stifle it anymore.
Madam, you have a beautiful soul. ❤
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?”
Splinded speech‼️ The truth is spoken by people like the speaker. I admire this true speaker🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
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.
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.
Respect! Thank you for speaking out the truth! 🙏
What were people in Ireland, "resistance fighters"?
Leve, leve PALESTINE, long live PALESTINE 🇵🇸 ♥️
Thank you madam for sharing the history and the facts abt what's happening..
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.
What an eloquent honest well informed speaker. Thank you 🙏🏽
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
outstanding discourse by an American citizen.Truth prevails.
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HUGE respect for this lady for speak out the truth and the hypocries if the west..BRAVO
"The Nakba never ended, the colonizer lied" - Macklemore
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 !
What a voice of truth much love and more power to you mam❤
❤ Stand With Humanity
Yes , we really need to take lectures on Human rights from Palestine and South Africa and their ' ilk '....
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❤..
Wonder if she is ever invited to CNN, MSNBC.
Please Lets not forger to Share
#JillStein2024
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.❤❤
🫀"A true believer can never be comfortatable with cheating or falsehood"(A/BQ)🧠📚⚖️🇪🇭🌍Rabbi🤲Guide Us💞You are the Most Gracious👑the Most Merciful👑
Nakba is still going on right in front of our eyes, it started in 1948. Not now.
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
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.
Thank you, Phyllis Bennis!
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 ."
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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
A lie that is repeated several times doesn’t become true
An honourable lady ❤️🍉🇵🇸
The words are endless .. nothing burgers are not food Just do
Ok we been talking about it lets do something about it
Bring them home.
She did not mention Ghandi !!!
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
Ай бұрын
Aparthteid is never between two states. West bankers are not israelians citizens.
@gerriperreault6905
Ай бұрын
How can democratic party support Biden! After 60 years, i have left the party.
@neddor-bm2gu
14 күн бұрын
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.
Ridiculous
What about the 1200 innocent Israeli victims? I didn`t hear anything about them.
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Thank you Phyllis for your articulate summation of the horror the u.s. promotes and provides! The madness and injustice is overwhelming!
Thank you for speaking up, for pointing to finger to your own government's role in the disaster of this particular conflict. I am sure in many other conflicts the US' involvement and interest has equally been dealt with in a Mafioso kind of way you have described. Actually, they are too numerous to list them all. Although the US certainly is not the only country that does her dealings this way in the world, but it is the most powerful (militarily speaking) one. But speaking up like this may give some hope that within the US such reflection one day may produce the US politicians that really are going to act on the tyranny of the powerful you so eloquently describe. Thank you
@ileanahernandez1709
Ай бұрын
The United States citizens must learn to vote third party and choose wisely. I believe at this time there's only one may stop 🛑 the colonizers and stop the genocide which is ongoing right now!😢
Let us learn from the Bonobo!
Free palestine.thank you Lady.
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 .
What an excellent speaker she is.
She blames the children’s suffering during the 17 years of Hamas rule on Israel?!
Is there any thing such as "United Nations Jews Rights Committee" - If not, Why not?
You cant create a state on stolen lands and then slowly systematicaly surpress the those who were forced to gave up their lands are turned into worlds biggest open prison and create the worst apartheid yon can't expect there to be peace..
250k Palestinians already evicted fr their homeland by May 1948 !!
@regenahregenah6510
21 күн бұрын
Where did they go,????
So the partition of India into Pakistan, or the creation of Jordan, does the horribly misnamed UN rights commission consider those a nakba, as well?
What is Ireland going to say about "restiance fighters" now that the lCC has changed Hamas with Crimes Against Humanity?
The temerity,shit it