Learn about the history of the Palestinian struggle for freedom, equality and justice by exploring major events in the history of their oppression on this day of the year.
29 January
On this day in 2015, Portugal approved a law, shortly followed by Spain, offering citizenship to Sephardic Jews, descendants of those who once lived there. The Catholic Inquisition in the Christian kingdoms initially forced non-Christians to convert before expelling all Muslims and Jews from the Iberian Peninsula in 1492 and the years following. Muslims who can similarly show descent from those expelled in 1492 need not apply. Israel still denies entry to Palestinians it expelled in 1948, 1967 or subsequently.
29 يناير
في هذا اليوم من العام 2015م، اعتمدت البرتغال قانوناً، وتبتعتها اسبانيا بعد وقت قصير، يقضي بمنح اليهود الشرقيين، سليلي أؤلئك الذين عاشوا في وقت من الأوقات هناك. علما بأن المحاكم الكاثوليكية في الممالك المسيحية كانت في البداية تقوم بإجبار غير المسيحيين على تغيير ملتهم قبل طرد جميع المسلمين واليهود من شبه الجزيرة الإيبيرية في عام 1492 والسنوات التي تلت ذلك. لم ينطبق القانون على المسلمين الذين يمكنهم اثبات نسبهم من أولئك الذين طُردوا عام 1492 ولا يحتاجوا التقديم. لا تزال إسرائيل تمنع دخول الفلسطينيين الذين طردتهم عام 1948 أو 1967 أو بعد ذلك
'I'm a Palestinian refugee. I just became a Spanish citizen thanks to my Jewish roots'
My grandfather was a Palestinian refugee who fled Jaffa during the war of 1948 and arrived in Lebanon the same year. He married my grandmother, a Lebanese woman, and they had a number of children together, including my father. But Palestinian refugees and their families do not have the same rights as Lebanese citizens; they cannot own property or take certain jobs....until this year, I only had a travel document that states I am a Palestinian refugee from Lebanon.
Full story of Heba Nabil Iskandarani