Will Israel Ever Be Held Accountable for Its Actions in Palestine Since the Nakba?
Some questions aren’t just legal, they’re moral detonations. And this one? It’s the kind that doesn’t just ask for an answer, it demands a reckoning. Will Israel ever be held accountable for what it has done in Palestine since the Nakba ? Not just in theory, not just in the footnotes of human rights reports, but in actual courtrooms, with consequences, reparations, and a public record that says, this happened, and it was wrong. I’ve asked this question in different tones over the years, sometimes with rage, sometimes with exhaustion, sometimes with the kind of quiet clarity that comes when you’ve stopped expecting justice and started documenting its absence. Because the evidence is there. The bodies are there. The ruins are there. Survivors are still speaking. And yet, the world keeps saying, “Let’s not rush to judgment.” As if 75 years is somehow premature. Let’s start with the ledger. Since 1948, Israel has been accused of a continuum of violations, ethnic cleansing , apartheid , w...