Your name is the one thing they still cannot take.Every empire tried to catalogue us. Israel’s the first to try to delete us. This episode looks at how Palestinian names carry proof when everything else is gone: houses, land, photos, documents. Hiba walks through how language, law, and paperwork are used to erase a people, and why a last name like Al-Nabulsi or Majdalawi says more than any document. She also sits with what it means to name a child after someone who was killed, and why that turns memory into something that breathes.In This Episode: The fundamental difference between Arabic naming (recognition) and colonial naming (possession)How Palestinian geographic names directly contradict the "empty land" mythWhy names like Saffuri and Lyddawi are evidence that Palestinians did not just appear in 1948The weaponization of bureaucratic systems to distort and erase Palestinian namesThe weight carried by children named after martyrs and the impossible choices families makeRemember What They Want ForgottenLearn the original Palestinian names of places, not their made-up Hebrew versionsRecord elders telling your family stories before they're goneResourcesHumanize Gaza: Submit and read stories of those killedB'Tselem: Documentation on Palestinian children denied registrationAdalah: Legal work against residency revocation through paperwork"Your forgetting was never my responsibility." — Hiba"You name your child after a martyr because you're betting that their name carrying that history is worth the weight that it puts on them, that it's better for your kid to carry a name that still hurts than for that name to be forgotten completely." — Hiba

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