For many Palestinian Americans, Trump’s Gaza plan evokes legacy of displacement

In Dearborn, a largely Arab American town where Trump made gains, his plan to take over Gaza is met with disgust'

For Palestinian Americans in Dearborn, Michigan, like Zaynah Jadallah and her family, displacement and loss have become central elements of her family heritage.

Her family members were teachers in Al-Bireh in what is now the occupied West Bank during the 1948 Nakba, when hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were forced from their homes and land by Zionist paramilitaries, and then the Israeli army, in the war surrounding Israel's creation.