Case 1: Jaffa This is an ongoing Nakba, but it has an economic aspect more than anything else. It’s caused by the big investments happening in Jaffa. Privatization is making Palestinians powerless. Here Palestinians aren’t being fought by force, Israel is using another weapon, and it’s fighting us with money and the economy. Palestinians in Jaffa have an economic disadvantage, they are looking for alternatives outside Jaffa, and this is why our number keeps decreasing. Ramy Sayegh, 33-year old resident of Jaffa. Interview: Jaffa, 20 March 2017 Palestinians in the city of Jaffa have been suffering from ongoing forced displacement since 1948 to this day. Israeli policies aim to replace the remaining Palestinian residents with JewishIsraelis. 2017 (©BADIL). Background During the Nakba, thousands of Palestinians were forcibly displaced from Jaffa by Zionist militias. Only 4,000 out of 120,000 Palestinians managed to remain in the city; the rest fled, and became refugees in the West Bank, Gaza and neighboring countries. Palestinians who remained were subjected to military rule,76 and were confined by the Israeli military to the al-Ajami 76 Eve Spangler, Understanding Israel/Palestine: Race, Nation, and Human Rights in the Conflict, (Rotterdam: Sense Publishers, 2015), 119. 32