Nakba Day is about continual, historical and ongoing displacement and disconnection. And it is also about the unrelenting, miraculous ways in which we Palestinians continue to find each other, stand up for each other, and stitch our lineages.
The PFC reaffirms our commitment to standing with our co-strugglers against imperialist, racialized, and genocidal violence across the world.
The Nakba is ongoing. As we have witnessed an accelerated genocide of our beloved Palestinian people in Gaza, an estimated 200,000 Palestinian lives have been robbed by the Zionist regime and the empire that arms it – the United States and its partners in genocide.
Zionism aims to destroy the very fabric of Palestinian society and disrupt familial and generational structures—attempting to eliminate the future of our people, and the bearers and backbones of our resistance across all sectors of society.
We continue to nurture our social, political and cultural presence as a people in our homeland and across the shatat. This continued practice of resistance reminds us that the past and present are tethered to one another and are central to making a liberated future.
This is our method and practice of asserting our history, and our belonging to Palestine, a willful defiance to the act of forgetting, and a challenge to Zionist erasure of Palestine and Palestinians.
Today, and everyday, we affirm that our land and people are one, indivisible watan (homeland and peoplehood). We commit to abolishing Zionism’s systemic regime of rightlessness, dispossession, military occupation, apartheid, siege, war, and gendered and sexual violence that have been ongoing since before the 1948 exodus.
We resist erasure, subjugation, and fragmentation through the restoration of lost land, time, peoplehood, and cultures. We are committed to the reunion of our people, communities, and homeland, from the Northern Galilee to the southernmost tip of al-Naqab, from the Mediterranean coastal lands, to the sacred city of Jerusalem, to the terrain west of the Jordan River.
Across historic Palestine, throughout the shatat, and through our intergenerational connections, diverse and rich traditions, histories, and organizing practices, the Palestinian Feminist Collective affirms that we are one people.