We Remember

Global Campaign: We remember #NAKBA 

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On May 15th, please join us globally to show support for independent and free Palestine on the Nakba Day. 67 years of occupation and exile is 67 years too much and we can end it together!

 

Learn more about the Nakba here:  http://boycott4peace.blogspot.com/search?q=Nakba

 

Quick Action:  Join the Thunderclap and help us educate everyone about the Nakba:

https://www.thunderclap.it/projects/25835-we-remember-al-nakba-1948?locale=en

If you have more time, please join I am Palestinian I am not a terrorist in a bit of extended action.  They are preparing leaflets and posters for you to use either if you are a group or a lonely supporter of Palestine. The idea is to all use the same materials to show that Palestine Unites Us.

They want to achieve the same results as when they launched the Global Solidarity for the Hares Boys: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.205390882975154.1073741834.146535155527394&type=3&__mref=message_bubble
 

 Please contact them if you want your organization to be added to our global campaign. E-Mail: ipnotglobal@gmail.com Twitter: @IPNOTGlobal

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Spanish:
 

Campaña Mundial Recordamos #NAKBA

El 15 de mayo únase a nosotros en todo el mundo para mostrar su apoyo a Palestina independiente y libre en el Día de la Nakba.
67 años de ocupación y exilio son demasiados y que pueden terminar si nos unimos, juntos!

Estamos preparando folletos y carteles para su uso ya sea si usted es un grupo o un defensor solitario de Palestina. La idea es que todos utilizemos los mismos materiales para demostrar que Palestina nos une.

Queremos lograr lo que hicimos cuando lanzamos la Solidaridad Global por los Chicos de Hares:
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.205390882975154.1073741834.146535155527394&type=3&__mref=message_bubble

Póngase en contacto con nosotros si desea que su organización sea parte de nuestra campaña global. E - Mail: ipnotglobal@gmail.com Twitter: @IPNOTGlobal

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Salt of this Sea

 

Award Winning Film From Palestinian Director, Annemarie Jacir

Salt of this Sea, through a modern love story, eloquently marries the Palestinian diaspora's yearning to return with the angst for escape felt by Palestinians trapped in open air prisons in their homeland.  

The present is interwoven with the past, as is traditional with all Indigenous story telling. The film opens with historic footage from the Nakba, that incredibly painful time, beginning in 1948, when Israel began the violent ethnic cleansing of Palestine.  We get a tiny glimpse at home demolitions,  as well as the bombs and the tanks that were employed.  We see Palestinian people rushing to flee in tiny boats and a last longing look back at the town of Jaffa, as the boats head out to sea.

We meet the film's main character, Soraya, a member of the Palestinian diaspora, at the first Israeli checkpoint after her plane has landed in Israel.  And at that moment, our education in the discriminatory treatment of all Palestinians begins.  As Soraya moves through the landscape of Israel and the occupied territories, our understanding deepens. We are confronted with separation walls, checkpoints, razor wire, and fully armed military police.

The landscape is breath taking.  The resilience and angst, the warm hearted hospitality and the heart breaking tragedy are shared in an illuminating light.  As we watch, we begin to understand that injustice breeds desperation and that desperate people do desperate things.

This film is highly recommended to all who stand in solidarity with the Palestinian people.  It weaves many of the separate news stories and narratives into a living whole.  We begin to glimpse what life is like, both in the hearts of the diaspora and for those living behind the separation walls. 

Salt of this Sea is widely available, request it from your local library or wherever you normally rent movies.  You can also stay in touch on their facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/SaltofthisSea.  It is still making the film festival rounds and they announce screenings from time to time. 

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More on Israel's discriminatory practices can be found here:
http://boycott4peace.blogspot.com/2014/11/freedom-of-religion.html

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Participate!  If you have a favorite film by a Palestinian director, please tell us about it in comments.  In fact, if you are feeling creative, you can prepare and post a short review, similar to one of ours.  We may use your recommendation or your review in an up-coming blog post.  If you use your review, you will receive a by line and you can include the review in a list of publication credits. 

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History

We have all heard the old adage, ‘to the victor go the spoils.’  One of the spoils of victory has always been the privilege of rewriting history—of obliterating facts—to show the victor as just, humane, and worthy.  Another old adage is that, ‘there are always two sides to every story.’  The side of the oppressed, the exploited, the colonized and conquered was, until recently, seldom publicly told.

Modern technology has begun to democratize media.  Mainstream media still embraces the idea that the victor gets to spoil the facts and rewrite history.  However, the more we continue to reject mainstream media and seek out citizen and alternative journalism, the more our view of the world expands.
 

Image from Celebrate Palestine Films.

‘The Land Speaks Arabic’ is a film that takes us beyond the views that the victor, that the oppressor, wants us to see.  To begin to understand the true story of the Holy Land, we need to take in the entire view, not just what the mainstream media asserts in their support of oppression.

This film tells the story of European-Jewish colonization and settlement of Palestine and its effects on Palestinians, beginning in 1891.  Archival material, including film footage, photographs, and documents carry much of the story.  Interviews with those who lived through the great Palestinian catastrophe known as the Nakba are included, as are quotes from leaders and politicians of the day.

 "Palestine proper has already its inhabitants. The pashalik of Jerusalem is already twice as thickly populated as the United States, having 52 souls to the square mile, and not 25% of them Jews."

Israel Zangwill, 1905

Acts of Jewish terrorism and ethnic cleansing perpetrated against the Indigenous population are recounted and illustrated. The film ends with the people who now live in exile, sharing their visions of the homes they lost and the pain in their hearts.

Narration is provided by Nur Masalha, who also did much of the research for the film.  He is a Palestinian historian and Professor of Religion and Politics.  He is as well, the Director of both the Centre for Religion and History, and the Holy Land Research Project at St Mary's University College; as well as an acclaimed author whose books include 'The Politics of Denial: Israel and the Palestinian Refugee Problem.'

'The Land Speaks Arabic,’ a film by Maryse Gargour--available on request from public libraries and from where ever you ordinarily rent DVDs.  It can also be watched on YouTube. 

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If the Israeli atrocities against Palestinian people had stopped, perhaps we could forget about this history.  Unfortunately, as noted by Nur Masalha in the film, the Zionist program against the Palestinian people continues today.  You can read about some of the current manifestations on this thread:  http://boycott4peace.blogspot.com/search/label/why%20we%20boycott

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For more information on the historical roots of the conflicts in the Holy Land please see:
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Ilan Pappe's Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine

Image from Wikimedia Commons.

The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, by Ilan Pappe

This very intelligent, well researched, and moving history reveals the forgotten events surrounding the Palestinian Nakba or catastrophe of 1948.  Pappe's primary source of information was the Israeli Government's own archives which were released to the public in 1980.  The timeline covered begins with the first Zionist agricultural colony in Palestine in 1878 and continues through the various armistice agreements concluding in 1949.

Of particular note, the false Israeli narrative which claims that an attack by Arab armies is what caused the Nakba and resulted in the displacement of approximately 750,000 Palestinian people--as well as the destruction of their homes, villages and urban centers-- from what had become the United Nations designated Jewish area is soundly refuted. 

The Arab armies never invaded the UN designated Jewish area. The Arabs' presence, in and on the edges of the Palestinian designated area, was primarily to protect Palestinian villages and people.  (Pages 129 -130.)  It was the Jewish militias, such as Irgun and Hagana, that began the ethnic cleansing in 1931, if not earlier.  (Page 284.)  In fact, the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians by Jewish forces continued in the U.N. Jewish designated area during the war of 1948.  While the Arab forces were able to protect the designated Palestinian area, Jewish forces were completely undeterred in their efforts to remove Palestinians from what we now know as Israel.  (Pages 130 -131.)

This is a highly recommended read for everyone interested in gaining insight into the horrific events that lead up to the creation of Israel.  It also illustrates the importance The Right of Return has to Palestinians in negotiating a final and peaceful solution to the Palestinian - Israeli conflict. We begin to understand many details, for instance the University of Tel-Aviv is built on land that used to be the Palestinian village of Sheykh Muwannis. (Page 103.)   In embracing a true history, we must not erase the memory of the people that once called that piece of land their home.

The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine is available by request from book sellers and libraries everywhere.

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