On the eve of the 78th anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba, the silence around the world speaks volumes about oblivion. At the UN, a brief program, so far tentative, lasting 2 and half hours, is what the international institution will dedicate to an ongoing rupture that escalated to genocide. The entire world has witnessed Israel’s genocide in Gaza, and the Nakba is treated as less than a relic of the past.

At a time when Israel’s hasbara requires a $730 million boost, the international community should be reflecting on its own complicity. Even when Israel can barely sustain its narrative anymore, world leaders are preferring to render the Nakba insignificant. The UN, on the other hand, adorns its complicity with a perfunctory program that speaks for itself to itself. 

Palestinians have repeatedly spoken of the Nakba as ongoing. The UN treats the Nakba as a single event. World leaders only emit silence. There is no discussion of the illegality woven into........

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