Over the past three-plus weeks, much of the world has watched in horror as parts of the Gaza strip on the Mediterranean Sea in Palestine have been reduced to rubble. In Palestinian communities across the globe, including in the Palestinian diaspora in Portland, those images have been especially painful—resurfacing memories of the mass displacement Palestinians faced during previous conflicts with Israel in 1948 and 1967. “It’s an emotional trigger,” Ramzy Farouki, director of the Center.