Dr Karma Nabulsi writes in The Guardian on Nakba day

Karma Nabulsi has written an article in The Guardian (19 May) on the events unfolding around the border of Syria and the Golan on this years Nakba Day.
She writes: What made this moment and others like it across the region so radical in gesture, democratic in purpose, and universal in intent? It brought the entire world suddenly face to face with the intimate and immediate in the very human struggle for freedom of each Palestinian, whether refugee or not. Sixty-three years ago the entire body politic of the people of Palestine was violently destroyed and dispersed. All Palestinians, whether refugee or not, share that terrible history it is what unites us.

This is the shared experience we commemorate every year on Nakba Day: the year-long expulsion of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians that began in 1947 and continued straight through 1948 into the terrible snowstorm winters of 1949, creating what is now the worlds largest refugee population.

The full article can be read here.