For Palestinians, memory matters. It provides a blueprint for their future

A Dajani family portrait in front of their Baq'a home that belongs to Dr. Mahmoud al-Dajani. After Nakba Israelis looted their home which was featured in the Israeli film called: House

Why do some people have the power to remember, while others are asked to forget? That question is especially poignant at this time of year, as we move from Holocaust Remembrance day in early spring to Monday's anniversary of Israel's declaration of independence on May 14, 1948.

In the months surrounding that date, Jewish forces expelled, or intimidated into flight, an estimated 750,000 Palestinians. A living, breathing, society that had existed in Palestine for centuries was smashed and fragmented, and a new society built on its ruins
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