Details of Nakba Day protests today – Sunday 15th May
Rallies and protests around the country will take place tomorrow to mark Nakba Day (Nakba is Arabic for “catastrophe”) which remembers the ethnic cleansing of up to a million Palestinians from their land and homes by Israeli militias in 1948.
This ethnic cleansing has continued every day since. Within the last two weeks an Israeli court has given the go ahead for further ethnic cleansing and the continuing building of illegal Jewish-only settlements on stolen Palestinian land.
The protest will also focus on this week’s murder of Shireen Abu Akleh and the barely believable attack on pall-bearers and mourners at her funeral yesterday.
The New Zealand government is complicit in this murder and mayhem against Palestinians through their wall of silence.
Auckland: Aotea Square at 2pm. Facebook event page here
New Plymouth: Puke Ariki Landing 2pm to 3pm. Facebook event page here
Christchurch: Bridge of Remembrance 12 noon, Facebook event page here
Speakers include:
Palestinian students Shams Elhanafy and Rawaa Elhanafy
Anglican Bishop of Christchurch Peter Carroll
Press columnist Donna Miles-Mojab
Christchurch Central MP Duncan Webb
A minute’s silence will be held for Shireen Abu Akleh and everyone who has been killed in the struggle for Palestinian human rights this year.
Protests in Nelson and Napier are taking place today and the Dunedin protest took place last weekend. In Wellington Justice for Palestine is holding a Palestinian cultural event at the Thistle Hall in Cuba Street from 1pm to 3pm. Further details on the poster below. Facebook event is here
Media are invited to attend and report on these events.
No Arab country, save Qatar (which is hand-in-hand with the misogynists’ in Tehran and their puppets, the vile anti-LGBTQI crew running Gaza for their own benefit), now cares a jot for the Palestinians – who themselves have never missed an opportunity to miss an opportunity.
Sure, go to the event and enjoy a falafel – nothing said or done there will make the slightest difference.
Nathan I hope you mean the 15 year old girl. Let’s be clear she is the one that assaulted Mr Burr in his bed.
The Palestinian refugees of 1948 are the only ones in history to have their descendants born as refugees.
Arab nations could have built homes for them in Gaza the West Bank (1948-1967), but chose not to. They could have given them them the right to work and own homes in Arab nations, but again no.
In 2000 Arafat was rejected a state insisting on right of return of the refugees into 1948-1967 border Israel – the suffering of those refugees in Lebanese and Syrian camps since then has been appalling. They could have had Palestinian passports and homes.
Since then there has been the intifada (leading to a security fence) and Hamas undermining land for peace with their rockets leading to Israel aggregating land around Jerusalem and now Hebron as part of a permanent occupation strategy.
Palestinians have managed to become the permanent victim of a continuing Nakba and thus cast a shadow over the Jewish state. None of this was inevitable.