Posts Tagged ‘Nakba’
I Have Resigned From Palestine Solidarity Campaign Because It No Longer Opposes Zionism, the Founding Ideology and Movement that created the Israeli State
I Have Resigned From Palestine Solidarity Campaign Because It No Longer Opposes Zionism, the Founding Ideology and Movement that created the Israeli State In Railroading a Constitution Through Its AGM in Less Than an Hour, PSC’s Ruling Clique Demonstrated Their Contempt for the Membership In my letter of resignation I outline the reasons why Palestine Solidarity Campaign…
Read MoreDe-colonising the mind – a former Zionist fighter’s journey to the other side of the road
Tikva-Honig Parnass – an Israeli anti-Zionist legend in her own lifetime https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKTPf2qgtQY Tikva Honig-Parnass’ Jewish militia played its part in depopulating and destroying Palestinian towns and villages in the 1940s [William Parry/Al Jazeera] I feel in awe writing this appreciation of one of the most dedicated Jewish anti-Zionists to have remained in Israel. Tikva Honig-Parnass was…
Read MoreRemembering the Nakba 70 Years on – Brighton Picket of Israeli Film
No Art-Washing of Israel’s Massacre in Gaza: Boycott the SERET Film and TV Festival This weekend was a busy one in Brighton. On Saturday there was a commemoration of the Naqba, the Catastrophe for Palestinians in 1947-8 when over ¾ million were expelled from what became Israel in order that Israel could become a ‘Jewish’ state…
Read MoreDemonstration Today in Whitehall Against the Massacre of Unarmed Protestors in Gaza
Today over 2,000 demonstrators gathered outside Downing Street in Whitehall to make their voice heard about Israel’s massacre of unarmed demonstrators in Gaza. Faced with a hermetically sealed siege for over a decade, a lack of freshwater, electricity, medical supplies and food people have taken to protesting at the border fence of Gaza demanding the…
Read MoreMomentum – Its Time for Jon Lansman to Go
Jon Lansman asks us to ‘understand’ the Nakba – the expulsion of ¾ million Palestinians Palestinian refugees fleeing in 1948 Very little in politics happens for no reason. When Cameron asks us to help defeat ‘terrorism’ we can be sure that what he really means is surveillance and repression at home [PREVENT] and imperialism abroad. …
Read MoreRewriting History – First the Holocaust now the Nakba – Netanyahu style
It is illegal to teach about the Nakba in Israel today. History is what the State says it is. The word ‘Nakba’ is officially banned from Israeli, including Israeli Arab, textbooks. By banning a word, Israeli’s stupid leaders, led by Netanyahu, believe that they can rewrite history itself. That Israel’s Palestinians will somehow forget about…
Read MoreNew Film about Israeli War Crimes in 1967
In peoples’ understandable determination to uncover the truth of the Nakba and what happened in 1947-8, the massacres of the 1967 War have barely been covered. Still from the film Censored Voices shows a former Israeli solider listening back to an interview, censored by the military after the 1967 war. Palestinian refugees from the 1948 War A…
Read MoreTantura – the Massacre that the Zionists tried to Cover Up
An excellent article by Jonathan Cook, a British journalist who lives in Nazareth. He was blacklisted by the Guardian. Tantura was the scene of one of the worst massacres of the Nakba and there has been a concerted effort to cover it up. The University of Haifa was complicit in the brow-beating of Teddy Katz,…
Read MoreTruth Commission on Nakba
Israelis rattled by search for truth about the Nakba 14 December 2014 First ‘truth commission’ avoids issue of reconciliation as veteran Israeli fighters due to confess to 1948 war crimes Middle East Eye – 9 December 2014 The first-ever “truth commission” in Israel, to be held on Wednesday, will feature confessions from veteran Israeli fighters…
Read MoreMore Confessions by Israeli Veterans that they Expelled the Palestinians in 1948
Israeli army veterans admit role in massacres of Palestinians in 1948 Tuesday, 16 October 2012 16:05 Amnon Neumann The testimony of 83-year-old Yitzhak Tishler, who lives in Mafsirt Tsyon, confirms the accounts provided by other veterans who spoke of looting houses and stores. He also said that he took part in the killing of dozens…
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