The First Palestinian Diaspora

"By May 15 1948 hundreds of thousands of Palestinian refugees from scores of Palestinian towns and hundreds of Palestinian villages had been scattered to the four winds in the neighbouring Arab countries."

Walid Khalidi in Before Their Diaspora

The Palestinian Diaspora Centre exists purely as a virtual centre. While there is no Palestinian Diaspora Centre offices, phone numbers, street names or any other form of "real" evidence of its existence, it has a definite presence all over the world. Wherever there are Palestinians there exists the Palestinian Diaspora and therefore will be the Diaspora Centre. This can only be achieved through the involvement of every one of us. As Arabs, it is important we create an active community that will never forget the injustices Palestinians have to endure. It is important that we continue to struggle for a future of peace, freedom and most importantly justice.

The aim of this Centre is to provide a global network of Arab / Palestinian people, activists, organisations and movements as well as any other sympathetic or friendly groups that is willing to stand by us and fight for Palestinian and Arab rights throughout the world. In abstract terms, it is an attempt to maintain and reinforce the imagined global Arabic community, especially amongst the Palestinians of the Diaspora.