Palestinian solidarity groups across Australia, including in Adelaide, are holding a national day of commemoration for the Nakba on Saturday 13 May 2023 to mark 75 years since the Nakba of 1948. See Adelaide remembrance events.

Palestinians around the world mark the ‘Nakba’, or ‘Catastrophe’, referring to the ethnic cleansing that occurred in 1948, resulting in the loss of the Palestinian homeland, with 80% of Palestinians made refugees and 20% displaced.

Dr Yara Hawari, Al Shabaka's Palestine policy fellow and AFOPA's 2022 Edward Said Memorial Lecture speaker, sums up Israelis' recent democracy protests perfectly:
     
" The Israeli democratic state is and always has been a myth, an illusion built to sustain the oppression of the Palestinian people and continue their dispossession."

Today, Monday 29 November 2021 is the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People. This event is observed by the United Nations on or around 29 November each year, in accordance with mandates given by the General Assembly in its resolutions 32/40 B of 2 December 1977, 34/65 D of 12 December 1979, and subsequent resolutions adopted by the General Assembly on the question of Palestine.

The date of 29 November was chosen because of its meaning and significance to the Palestinian people. On that day in 1947, the General Assembly adopted resolution 181 (II), which came to be known as the Partition Resolution. That resolution provided for the establishment in Palestine of a “Jewish State” and an “Arab State”, with Jerusalem as a corpus separatum under a special international regime.