Nakba 78 years on: The language used to dispossess Palestinians

Before Nakba became a date in history, it was already being formed in language. Through words that framed departure as necessity, absence as status, and an entire people’s displacement from their land as something administrative.

Al Jazeera’s Dalya Al Masri looks at Israel's use of language to justify ethnic cleansing.

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