Present Absentees News Today

From our Digital Projects | Highlight | Himmat Zu’bi reviews in this essay, the story of “present absentee” Palestinians who were internally displaced during the Nakba to other locations under Israeli rule, but were prevented from returning to their home villages after the war ended. Read about the Present Absentees in Israel in The Interactive Encyclopedia of the Palestine

Rinawie Zoabi, a Palestinian lawmaker in Meretz, demands the return of ethnically-cleansed villagers in the Galilee as a condition of her staying in government. But Yair Lapid is having none of it.