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Zochrot (“Remembering”) is an Israeli NGO (580389526) working since 2002 to raise awareness in Israel to the Nakba, the Palestinian catastrophe of 1948. The Nakba is the ’ground zero’ of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and its understanding is crucial to the understanding of the conflict and the possibilities for its just resolution. While the Nakba took place mainly in 1948, its ramifications continue to play out in various ways to our day. 

In a sense the Nakba is the story of the Palestinian catastrophe—the destruction of villages, the expulsions and the killings—but it is also a fundamental part of the history of the Jewish people who live here. 

And yet, since 1948, the Israeli State has been doing to erase all remains of the Nakba and the Palestinian life that preceded it: it is omitted from the Israeli education system, erased from its landscape and is absent from the Hebrew language, culture and public discourse. 

At the same time there are Israelis, particularly younger ones, who are beginning to question this absence and want to learn more about this taboo topic. 

Zochrot hopes that by talking about the Nakba in Hebrew, we can begin to change the language spoken by the Jewish majority in Israel, and with it affect public discourse on the origins of the conflict and on the possibilities for its just resolution. 

We aim for a growing number of Israelis to learn about the Nakba and to take responsibility for it, a necessary step towards reaching a workable and just reconciliation in this region. Zochrot supports the right of Palestinian refugees to return to their homes as the personal, human, right of every uprooted individual, and regards the return of refugees as an opportunity for establishing a different kind of relationship between Jews and Palestinians.