Dishonouring Palestinian memory of the Nakba at the UN |
Another Nakba commemoration has passed. At the UN, the rhetoric remains unchanged. It is chilling that even after a colonial genocide which Israeli officials called Nakba 2.0, the UN is determined to never mention colonialism. The UN will never, not even on the anniversary of the Nakba, face the Palestinian people and admit its complicity by endorsing the 1947 Partition Plan for Palestine’s colonisation.
No matter how much the UN maintains its self-imposed relevance when it comes to the Palestinian people’s fate, the Palestinian people should not be subjugated to the UN. And neither should Palestine’s history, culture and collective memory be exploited for UN commemorative speeches.
Last week, the UN General Assembly’s President Annalena Baerbock, delivered a speech for the 78th commemoration of the Nakba, commencing with a poem by Mahmoud Darwish to illustrate the Palestinian people’s perpetual displacement. Baerbock immediately distorted the Zionist colonisation of Palestine, stating, “One of the very first tasks of the United Nations was to find a just........