Based on analysis of diverse commemorative practices, including monuments, annual parades, as well as commemorative books and exhibitions over the first decade of the 21sy century, I argue that the Palestinian citizens of Israel have developed a distinct version of the Palestinian national narrative. The unique political status of the Palestinians in Israel, as well as the existence of the state authorities and Jewish Israelis as potential audiences for the narrative have shaped its distinct content. Palestinians everywhere share the centrality of the Nakba as a major anchor in the collective narrative. Post 1948 history, however, is written and processed differently, both in the selection of events to the canon and in their interpretations. The Palestinians in Israel have their own political collective calendar, in which the massacre of Kafr Qasim, Land Day, and October 2000 are central. Although Palestinians elsewhere are familiar with these events and some of them even commemorate them in annual ceremonies, art, and poetry, in no other context these events have become major anchors of political mobilization and protest. Especially significant is the fact that the Palestinians in Israel commemorate the Nakba during Israel’s Day of Independence and not on May 15th. In recent years the parade has even been titled “Their Independence – Our Catastrophe”, a title that consciously narrates the conflict as a zero sum game. Although these choices are commonly interpreted by Jewish Israelis as outright provocations, interpreting them within the context of other commemorative practices would reveal that they are part of a dialogue over civic equality. In other words, Palestinians in Israel tend to frame milestones in their collective history as atrocities of a state against its own citizens and contextualize them in the struggle against discrimination and for civic equality, and not only as a part of a struggle between colonizers and colonized.