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SUMMARY:This Land Sprouts Resistors: Land Day 2026 | Organized by Kaleem Ha
 wa
DESCRIPTION:Overview\n\n\n\n\n\na commemoration of 2026 Land Day\n\n\n\n\n\
 n\nYawm al-Ard (Land Day) in Palestine was inaugurated to commemorate th
 e events of 1976\, during which mass Palestinian uprisings erupted against
  the Judaization of the Galilee and were brutally put down by Israeli sett
 ler and soldier groups. That this movement originated in the dakhil (the
  interior lands occupied during the Nakba) before extending across all of
  historic Palestine was significant\, an assertion of the contiguity in la
 nd\, continuity of thought\, and a rejection of enforced quiescence under 
 colonial control.\n\nLand Day has been annually reconfirmed first and fore
 most through popular movement and armed resistance\, part of a lineage of 
 Palestinian thought and practice that spans early modernity\, and includes
  the Buraq uprisings of 1929\, the great peasant revolts of 1936–39\, an
 d that continues to the present day. Palestinians have resisted the aliena
 tion and theft of their land\, as well as their people’s displacement an
 d dismemberment from said land by the forces of British rule\, Zionist set
 tler colonialism\, and Western imperialism. In this respect\, land-based p
 edagogy is a core part of how Palestinian national culture reproduces itse
 lf\, and reproduces resistance\, with Palestinians canonizing Land Day thr
 ough poetry (e.g.\, Darwish\, al-Qasim\, Ziyad)\, song\, Islamic tractate\
 , posters\, film\, and video. For the 2026 Land Day commemorations\, join 
 us as we invite writers and scholars to deliver reflections on different a
 rt\, poetry\, and texts about the land of Palestine and the struggle of it
 s people. Speakers to be announced.\n\n\n\n
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