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Josh Ruebner is a PhD candidate at the University of Exeter’s European Centre for Palestine Studies and is writing a dissertation examining U.S. policy toward Palestinian self-determination between the Wilson and Truman administrations. He is also an Adjunct Lecturer of Justice and Peace Studies at Georgetown University.
Five things the United States knew about the Nakba as it unfolded
An estimated 750,000 Palestinians were either driven from their homes or fled during the Nakba in 1948. To counter attempts at Nakba denial and “memoricide” by U.S. politicians and others, it is instructive to review the archives of U.S. diplomats stationed in Palestine and surrounding Arab countries who witnessed the Nakba unfold and reported back on the magnitude and gravity of Israel’s dispossession of Palestine’s indigenous inhabitants.
