Joint List leader, MK Ayman Odeh (Hadash) during last year’s Nakba commemoration near Tirat HaCarmel in northern Israel

Police Deny Permit to Hold Annual Nakba Day March of Return

Police have refused to grant a permit for this year’s annual March of Return on Israel’s Independence Day, organized by Arab-Palestinians in Israel to commemorate the Nakba, or “catastrophe,” referring to the mass expulsion of Palestinians from their homes and villages during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war that established the state. Police claimed that the permit…