WHEN THE JEWS of Europe arrived on the shores of Palestine—fleeing the horrors of Nazi persecution—their ships bore signs pleading: “The Germans destroyed our families and homes. Don’t you destroy our hopes.”
And it was the Muslims of Palestine who answered that call.
They opened their arms and hearts to those in need. Because our Deen teaches us to stand with the oppressed, to offer compassion to the suffering, and to uphold justice—regardless of race, religion, or background. This is the legacy of Islam.
When Umar ibn al-Khattab (ra) took Jerusalem from the Byzantines, he found that the Christians had driven the Jews out, forbidding their return. But Umar (ra), guided by justice, welcomed them back. Centuries later, after the Crusades, Salahuddin Ayubi did the same. And when Jews were expelled from Spain, it was the Ottoman Sultan Bayezid II who sheltered them.
Time and again, it was the Muslims who protected those the world turned its back on.
Even in the 20th century, when Hitler unleashed unspeakable horrors upon European Jewry, it was again the Palestinians who offered refuge.
And what was their reward?
Betrayal
Today marks 77 years since the Nakba—the Catastrophe—when that hospitality was repaid with theft, violence, and exile. When the Palestinian people were torn from their homes, their villages razed, their olive trees uprooted, and their memories buried beneath barbed wire and propaganda.
Over 700,000 Palestinians were forced into exile. Over 15,000 were killed. Women and girls were raped. Children were orphaned. Families were scattered across borders, their keys still clutched in their hands, praying to return to homes now occupied or destroyed.
And as Israeli historian Benny Morris coldly admitted: “A Jewish state would not have come into being without the uprooting of 700,000 Palestinians… It was necessary to cleanse the hinterland, cleanse the border areas… There was no choice but to expel that population.”
This wasn’t a tragedy—it was a crime.
Today Isn’t a Day to Remember a Past Event.
The Nakba never ended. It continues today—in every demolished home, every bullet in Gaza, every checkpoint in the West Bank, every settler who plants flags on stolen soil.
The same colonial arrogance that justified the genocide of Native Americans, the enslavement of Africans, and the erasure of Indigenous Australians is at play here too. A racist ideology that sees some lives as disposable and others as inherently superior.
Even Churchill, in 1937, exposed that mindset when he said: “I do not admit that the dog in the manger has the final right to the manger… I do not admit that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America or the black people of Australia.”
He believed that might be right. Sound familiar?
The Lies
The Zionist state was declared a day before the Nakba began. From that moment, it claimed the right to exist while denying that same right to the people it displaced. The victims became the “terrorists,” and the occupiers became the “defenders.” With Western support, a false narrative was crafted to rewrite history and silence the truth. That Palestine was a land without people. That they “made the desert bloom”—erasing centuries of Palestinian civilization. That Arabs were backward and violent. That Scripture gave divine permission to take Palestine. That colonial violence was somehow self-defence.
The Truth is Breaking Through.
The courage of Gaza has pierced the veil of lies. The myths are crumbling. The world is beginning to see: We were never the antisemites. We are not the aggressors. We are not “less than.” Rather: We are the dispossessed. We are the betrayed. We are the voices that refuse to be silenced.
This oppression did not begin 19 months ago. It began over a century ago when the British dismantled the Ottoman Khilafah and made the Balfour Declaration.
Only Islam brought true peace to the Holy Land—when Jews, Christians, and Muslims lived side by side, protected and honoured. And only Islam can do so again.
Palestine Cries Out—Not For Our Tears—but for Liberation.
And we—wherever we are—must answer that call. With our voices, our skills, our efforts, our unity.
On one front to counter the false narratives and present what is true and just.
On another to create public opinion and a setting from which will arise those Muslims with the capability to end the occupation and liberate Palestine.
On yet another front to politically unite the ummah under the Khilafah Rashida so that we can restore the Islamic way of life and restore Palestine to its natural situation under the authority of Islam.
The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: “This matter (Khilafah) will continue after me in Al-Madina, then (move to) Al-Shaam, then to the peninsula, then to Iraq, then to the city (Constantinople), then to Bait-ul-Maqdis. So, if it reaches Bait-ul-Maqdis, then it would have reached its (natural resting place); and no people who remove it (i.e. the capital of the Khilafah) from their land will ever get it back again (for them to be the capital again).’ (ibn Asakir)
Let us work until that promise becomes reality.
Living For Islam 