Statement on 78th Anniversary of the Ongoing Nakba

PALESTINE ISRAEL GAZA GENOCIDE, 25 May 2026

Masar Badil | Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary Path Movement/Orinoco Tribune - TRANSCEND Media Service

Illustration showing a Palestinian holding a gun in the backdrop of a wall painted with the map of Palestine, an olive branch, and wheat kernels.
Illustration: Masar Badil

17 May 2026 – Seventy-eight years have passed since the Palestinian Nakba: the displacement, uprooting, massacres, Zionist settler-colonialism, and attempts to erase Palestine from history, geography, and consciousness. Yet our Palestinian people have proven, time and again, that the will of free peoples is stronger than all projects of genocide and oppression.

Despite massacres, siege, wars and displacement, the Palestinian people, together with all the free people of the world, continue to impose their just national cause upon the world through their steadfast popular will, refusing submission, surrender, or acceptance of the colonial reality. Our people have proven that they are prepared to go further than the world expects, and at times even further than our people themselves expect, in defense of their rights and goals of liberation and return. The glorious Al-Aqsa Flood on 7 October 2023 was a clear expression of this historical truth and of the deeply rooted fighting spirit of our people and their heroic resistance.

The Day of Palestinian Struggle, the fifteenth of May, is not merely an occasion to commemorate the ongoing Nakba; it is a day to renew our commitment to Palestine, from the river to the sea, to the right of return for Palestinian refugees, and to the choice of comprehensive resistance as the natural path in confronting the Zionist colonial project backed by the forces of global imperialism. Revolution is the only strategic option capable of achieving our people’s national and social liberation and of breaking the chains of the racist Zionist regime on the road to its removal from our land and region.

At this dangerous historical moment, the Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary Path Movement affirms that our people are in urgent need of a genuine revolutionary approach, forged by the hands of its sons and daughters, capable of moving our people from fragmentation, division, and retreat into a new stage rooted in popular unity, resistance, and revolutionary popular organization: returning the Palestinian cause to the path of liberation and return, far from the illusions of settlement, surrender, and political and economic dependency.

The past decades have proven that the dominant Palestinian elite that seized control of national decision-making, monopolized representation, and suffocated the spirit of the Palestinian cause, an elite backed by the reactionary Arab order, is no longer capable of producing anything except further paralysis, division, and surrender. This comprador class, tied to the Oslo path, security coordination, and political subordination, has become a heavy burden on our people’s struggle and one of the principal obstacles to rebuilding a genuine national liberation project.

Accordingly, defeating this approach at the political, popular and organizational levels has become a national necessity in order to restore Palestinian decision-making to the masses of our people and their living, struggling forces, and to rebuild a Palestinian, Arab, and international national liberation movement grounded in resistance, popular unity, and comprehensive confrontation with occupation and colonialism.

On the Day of Palestinian Struggle, the Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary Path Movement salutes the Palestinian prisoners’ movement, which represents the first line of defense for Palestine and one of the brightest expressions of the Palestinian liberation struggle, and the thousands of prisoners who confront the Zionist repression machine inside prisons and detention centers with their bare chests. Palestinian prisoners today are subjected to a brutal campaign of revenge that includes torture, starvation, isolation, medical neglect, and deliberate killing in an attempt to break their will and destroy the fighting spirit of our people. Occupation prisons have been transformed into centers of torture and slow extermination, where the most horrific violations are committed against prisoners under the cover and support of imperialist powers and official international silence. Therefore, the responsibility to support the prisoners’ movement, escalate solidarity campaigns for the prisoners, and expose Zionist crimes against them before the peoples of the world is a national, moral, and political responsibility borne by all living forces among our people, our nation, and the free people of the world until all prisoners are liberated and their full freedom wrested from the occupation prisons.

In this context, the Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary Path Movement affirms that the Palestinian youth generation, especially in the refugee camps and throughout the diaspora, bears a historical and central role in the coming stage. The youth of Palestine in exile are not merely a human extension of their cause; they are a living and vanguard part of the national liberation project, carrying the memory of the Nakba, the consciousness of resistance, and the will to return. The responsibility of rebuilding the Palestinian national movement on revolutionary, democratic, and fighting foundations requires the involvement of younger generations in the path of liberation and in the arenas of popular, cultural, political, and media organization, reclaiming the historical initiative in confronting attempts at liquidation, containment, and normalization.

The movement also affirms that Palestinian women have always been, and remain, at the heart of the battle for national liberation, from besieged villages, refugee camps, and prisons to the fields of resistance and popular and organizational struggle. The central leadership role of Palestinian women is not symbolic or secondary; it is an essential part of the struggle for national and social liberation and of the process of rebuilding the Palestinian national movement on the basis of broad popular participation, justice, and human dignity. Palestinian women have proven throughout decades of struggle that they are full partners in shaping resistance, steadfastness, and revolutionary consciousness, and that no genuine liberation project can rise without their active and leading presence at all levels of national work.

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The Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary Path Movement extends a special militant salute to national liberation movements, revolutionary and progressive forces, and the free people of the world who stand alongside the Palestinian people in their historic struggle against Zionist colonialism and global imperialism. The cause of Palestine today is not merely the cause of one people, but a cause of global human liberation in the face of racism, colonialism, domination, plunder, and war. Accordingly, the movement calls for reclaiming the fifteenth of May as the Day of Palestinian Struggle as well as the annual commemoration of the ongoing Nakba, and as a global day of solidarity with the Palestinian people and their inalienable national rights, foremost among them the right of return to Palestine, the right to self-determination, and the right of our people to resist occupation by all legitimate means, especially through armed resistance. We also call for escalating campaigns of boycott and the popular, political, cultural, athletic, and academic isolation of the Zionist entity, and for strengthening the international solidarity front with our people’s struggle until colonialism is defeated and justice is achieved throughout all of Palestine, from the river to the sea.

On the Day of Palestinian Struggle, the 78th anniversary of the ongoing Nakba, we renew our affirmation that Palestine will not be defeated, and that its people, who have withstood 78 years of displacement, massacres, siege, and genocide, are capable of renewing their revolution and creating a new future and a new dawn, no matter the sacrifices.

Glory to the martyrs
Freedom for the prisoners
Healing for the wounded
Victory to the resistance
Long live international solidarity with Palestine

Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary Path Movement
15 May 2026

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One Response to “Statement on 78th Anniversary of the Ongoing Nakba”

1. Hoosen Vawda says:

   26 May 2026 at 10:19

   Open Letter to The Editorial Board and Contributors of Transcend Media Service
   Subject: A Respectful Appeal for Collective Moral Agency Beyond Commentary and TMS Publications.
   Dear Esteemed Professors, Senior Members and Founders of Global Peace Organisations, Editorial Board Members, Scholars, “Moral Heirarchists” and Contributors to Transcend Media Service.
   I read your publications in the recent issues of TMS, noting a thread of commonality expressed in support of the ongoing plight of Palestinians. I commend your stance. Thank you for accepting my second appeal, appended as an open plea, to engage in a collective effort to highlight the problem of ongoing suffering, torture and genocide of 72,764+ Palestinians, with over 10,000 reportedly vapourised by the collective allies of Israel. The global silence is indeed abysmal, in this major humanitarian crisis of the 21st century.
   With humility and deep respect for the intellectual legacy of TMS, founded on the principles of peace journalism and the visionary work of Professor Johan Galtung (MHSRIEP), I write to you as a fellow contributor, committed to the shared pursuit of justice, dignity, peace and global harmony. I trust that in your frenetic schedules you will kindly read this document with good intentions.
   Recent reports published within TMS, including those addressing the plight of flotilla activists and the ongoing suffering of Palestinian civilians, reflect the moral clarity and courage that have long defined this platform. These contributions illuminate injustice with scholarly rigour and human compassion.
   Yet, I write today with a gentle but earnest question:
   Can we, as a community, move from witnessing to collective moral action?
   In March 2026, I submitted a draft memorandum proposing that TMS, as a body of globally respected thinkers and “Titans of Peace Propagation” consider endorsing an urgent humanitarian appeal to the United Nations. The intention was not to impose unanimity, but to explore whether our shared ethical commitments might find expression in a unified call for:
   • immediate ceasefire measures,
   • protection of civilians,
   • The targeted killings of journalists
   • Blatant violations of the different Geneva Conventions
   • accountability under international law,
   • and renewed multilateral engagement through the United Nations system.
   I fully appreciate that TMS is not traditionally an advocacy institution, and that editorial independence is essential to its integrity. However, I respectfully submit that:
   There are moments in history when moral scholarship may justifiably seek a collective voice.
   The events currently unfolding, whether involving flotilla activists, civilian populations, or broader regional instability in the Middle East, pose profound challenges not only to international law, but to our shared humanity.
   I wish to clarify that this appeal is not a criticism of editorial decisions, nor an expectation of institutional uniformity. Rather, it is an invitation:
   An invitation to individual conscience
   Should a collective institutional endorsement be impractical, perhaps an alternative path may be considered:
   • voluntary endorsement of the memorandum by individual contributors,
   • publication of parallel perspectives exploring actionable peace mechanisms,
   • or informal cooperation toward engaging established UN humanitarian channels.
   TMS has long illuminated the path toward peace.
   Might it now, in some form, help to gently walk that path together?
   I remain deeply grateful, appreciative and indebted for the platform TMS provides, under the editorial baton of the long serving and esteemed Professor Antonio Carlos Siva Rosa, as well as for the tireless efforts of its editorial Board and contributors. My intention is not to burden, but to contribute, however modestly, to the living tradition of peace through scholarship and ethical engagement, which forms the very basic tenets of peace propagation, as initiated by the late Professor Johan Galtung (MHSRIEP)
   With respect, sincerity, solidarity and hope,
   Hoosen Vawda
   Peace Propagator
   Durban, South Africa
   Global: + 27 82 291 4546
   e-mail: vawda@ukzn.ac.za
   Dated: Tuesday 26th May 2026
   Reference: TMS/Cont/26052026/RHV1

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