From 1948 to 2024

Abstract: For the author, their grandmother becomes a connection to the Palestinian homeland. The grandmother’s stories are passed down and now serve as consolation to the author in 2024. Events leading up to the Nakba and the Nakba itself were her first displacement. Passing down oral histories became a way for the grandmother to retain reclamation of the land she had been forced out of. These stories frame the author’s understanding of Palestinian displacement and violence against Palestine. The author locates their current consistent displacement in Gaza in the memories of the grandmother’s first displacement. This allows for reflection on how the contexts and plights of displacement for the grandmother have worsened in 2024 as the author’s life is filled with fleeing their home in resistance efforts to not be pushed out of Palestine.