Tag: 1948 Palestine

  • IMEMC: Hundreds mark the 60th Nakba by carrying the largest key in the world

    By Ghassan Bannoura – IMEMC. To view original article, click here At least 700 Palestinians from the southern West Bank district marched on Thursday (8th May) side by side next to the largest key in the world to mark the 60th anniversary of the Nakba. photo by IMEMC’s Ghassan Bannoura Today’s event, which was organized…

  • 60 Years of Nakba: 21,915 Black Balloons Over Jerusalem

    Click here to visit website of ’60 Years of Nakba’ To celebrate 60 years of independence, Israel is planning a large-scale birthday bash with events taking place in many different countries around the world. In Jerusalem, a 3-day conference, under the title “Facing Tomorrow” is planned from May 13 – 15, to which many world…

  • The Guardian: We’re not celebrating Israel’s anniversary

    For original article, published in The Guardian on the 30th April 2008, click here In May, Jewish organisations will be celebrating the 60th anniversary of the founding of the state of Israel. This is understandable in the context of centuries of persecution culminating in the Holocaust. Nevertheless, we are Jews who will not be celebrating.…

  • Violent arrest of cameraman in Jaffa by Israeli police

    A Palestinian citizen of Israel was filming another Palestinian receive a parking ticket in Jaffa. The police then focus on the cameraman, assaulting him and arresting them both. The assault and arrest is captured on film.

  • EI: George Habash’s contribution to the Palestinian struggle

    By: As’ad AbuKhalil 30 January 2008 I lived more than half of my life in the US and I never felt the alienation that I felt on the day I read George Habash, the Palestinian revolutionary who passed away last week, labeled as a “terrorism tactician” in a front page obituary in The New York…