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Posts Tagged ‘Nakba and Right of Return’

Documentary films about Palestine and her people

By Guest Post • Mar 17th, 2009 • Category: Artwork, Biography, Culture and Heritage, Ideas and Projects, Israel, Nakba and Right of Return, Newswire, Palestine, Resistance, Uprooted Palestinians' Testimonies

2008 marked the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the state of Israel and the simultaneous destruction of Palestinian civil and political society. The two events are as intimately connected as two sides of a coin, yet each side offers a distinct narrative that remains at odds with the accounts of the other. Feelings of [...]


Reham Alhelsi – The Unforgotten City and its Forgotten Suffering

By Reham Alhelsi • May 28th, 2008 • Category: Analysis, Culture and Heritage, Features, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Resistance, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, Uprooted Palestinians' Testimonies, Zionism

Jerusalem, the holy city, a city once the religious, social and economic center of the Palestinians for thousands of years, has turned into a ghost city under Israeli occupation. Moslems, Christians and Jews lived peacefully here until the Zionists started implementing their plans of establishing a Zionist state in Palestine. A city that was open [...]


NAKBA COMMEMORATION EVENTS

By Mary Rizzo • May 10th, 2008 • Category: Culture and Heritage, Israel, Nakba and Right of Return, Newswire, Palestine, Resistance, Zionism

Press release – BADIL and the Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign on behalf of
the National Committee to Commemorate the Nakba*
Nakba Commemoration – 11 May, 2008

Prominent authors and poets from around the world present their work in the Palestine Literary Festival.
The campaign to educate Palestinians on the Nakba and their collective Right of Return continues today in the [...]


Celebrating Evil

By Khalid Amayreh • May 8th, 2008 • Category: Israel, Khalid Amayreh, Nakba and Right of Return, Our Authors, Palestine, Resistance, Zionism

Normal nations, like normal people, don’t celebrate their days of infamy.  In fact, they struggle to forget them. Some countries with a troubled past try hard to deal with their shameful legacies, often by openly acknowledging their sins and apologizing to their victims and to their victims’ descendants.
 
However, in Israel, which encapsulates evil and racism, [...]