Palestine 48

A documentary about the Nakba by French director François-Xavier Gilles. Additional details about the documentary below.

On May 17th 2026, we are organizing a screening of Palestine 48, followed by a discussion in Dutch between Muawya Hindi and Jaap Hamburger, facilitated by Hoessein Alkisaei.

The event will start at 17:30, when people can buy some food from Taratoer and some Palestinian goods from Fairtrade Palestine. At 18:40, the documentary will start. At 20:30, the discussion will start. 

Speakers during the discussion

Additional info:

Palestine 48 is a term used by Palestinians to refer to Israel and the region where they lived before the partition of Palestine and from which they were expelled.

In 1948, more than 600 Palestinian villages were destroyed by Zionist militias and later by the Israeli army; the descendants of the inhabitants of these villages tell their stories.

The partition of Palestine, and the Nakba associated with it, cannot be understood without a historical overview of events from the mid-19th century through the years 1948–49.

The documentary film, Palestine 48, therefore begins by retracing these events based on the writings of the renowned Palestinian historian Walid Khalidi, whose work is little known in the Western world.

Palestine 48 then presents several sites of former Palestinian villages now hidden among pine forests, converted into fitness trails, or left in ruins; some on which a kibbutz, a vacation club, or a psychiatric hospital has been built. At each of these sites, Palestinians share their childhood experiences or the stories their parents told them. Umar al-Ghubari, a Palestinian researcher, guides us on this journey. Ilan Pappé, an Israeli “New Historian”, recounts the history of Tantura.

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