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Columbia Law Review's decision to shut down its website after Rabea Eghbaria's article, "Toward Nakba as a Legal Concept" was published, exposes the Palestine exception to academic freedom. I'm therefore sharing a copy of the article--all 104 pages and 427 footnotes of incredible legal research and analysis. The article argues that the question of Palestine can best be understood, "through the concept of ongoing Nakba, an egregious crime against humanity that intersects with the crimes of apartheid, genocide, and indefinite occupation but stands apart as its own indelible tragedy composed of a distinctive foundation, structure, and purpose." Eghbaria asserts that: "As Arab fragmentation became all the more entrenched, the Nakba became all the more Palestinian. It grew to encapsulate the totality of the Palestinian experience: an overarching frame that encompasses the individual and collective subjugation of the Palestinian people and can be traced to the constitutive violence of 1948." And finally, "If Apartheid taught us about the dangers of racialism and the possibility of reconciliation, and the Holocaust taught us about the banality of evil and warned 'Never Again,' the Nakba can complicate our understanding of these lessons by reminding us that group victimhood is not a fixed category, and that a victimized group may easily become victimizers. That once the abuses of the Nakba are redressed, Palestinians will also have to transcend their own victimhood. That we must ensure we always stand in solidarity with the oppressed, the vilified, and the dehumanized. That people need not always be perfect victims to qualify for freedom, dignity, and fundamental rights. Only once we realize these hard truths, Palestine will set us all free."

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The law does not possess the language we desperately need to accurately capture the totality of the Palestinian condition. From occupation to apartheid and genocide, the most commonly applied legal concepts rely on abstraction and analogy to reveal particular facets of subordination. This Article introduces Nakba as a legal concept to resolve this tension. Meaning “Catastrophe” in Arabic, the term “al-Nakba” (النكبة) is often used to refer to the ruinous process of establishing the State of Israel in Palestine. But the Nakba has undergone a metamorphosis; it has evolved from a historical calamity into a brutally sophisticated structure of oppression. This ongoing Nakba includes episodes of genocide and variants of apartheid but remains rooted in a historically and analytically distinct foundation, structure, and purpose.