Representative Rashida Tlaib just re-introduced a resolution in the U.S. House of Representatives to commemorate the Nakba (“catastrophe” in Arabic), when close to 800,000 Palestinians were forced from their family homes and their communities as part of the creation of Israel in 1948.

The resolution promotes better education about and understanding of the tragedy, including its ongoing impacts on Palestinians in occupied territories and around the world.

The resolution also calls on the United States to continue to support the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), which provides social services to a large number of the over 7 million Palestinian refugees, and to support the implementation of Palestinian refugees’ rights as enshrined in United Nations General Assembly Resolution 194 and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

The Nakba never ended, as Israel’s government has continued to steal Palestinian land, displace millions of Palestinians, and deny generations of Palestinians the right to live in and even freely visit their homeland. Most of Gaza’s residents are refugees from the Nakba, and they’ve been forcibly displaced multiple times over the past 7 months during the U.S.-backed genocide of Palestinians in Gaza.

The United States is the largest weapons supplier and funder of Israel’s military, so U.S. residents in particular must speak out against U.S. support for Israel’s genocidal apartheid regime that treats Palestinians as less than human.

Supporting this resolution is one way to keep educating lawmakers and keep the pressure on the U.S. government to stop enabling and unconditionally funding Israel’s human rights abuses.

Please add your name today to become a grassroots co-sponsor of Rashida Tlaib’s Nakba resolution in Congress.