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This week, Israel turned 60 and with it came the 60th anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba—the destruction and systemic expulsion of the Palestinian community. No other event has so drastically altered the course of events in the Middle-East and the scars of Palestinian dispossession continue to be the cause of great consternation across the region and the world today.

I have always found that while most people possess only a very basic understanding of the conflict, it is a subject for which they hold firm and emotionally stubborn opinions. Very few topics change a conversation into an argument so efficiently—even among those with no ethnic, religious or otherwise personal connection to the conflict.

My own infatuation with the Palestinian cause began during my undergraduate degree, when I wrote my thesis on the political implications of the West Bank Barrier. Since then, I have been convinced that the occupation of Palestine is one of the greatest persisting injustices today. This certainty has driven my life for at least the last three years, bringing me to the Gaza Strip and back (and hopefully to a Ph.D. program and back).

In commemoration of the 750,000+ Palestinians expelled from their homeland in 1948, the destruction of their 400+ villages and for all those killed in Zionist atrocities then and ever since, I will post articles pertaining to the Nakba for the next week.