Thursday, 10 May
6:00 pm
Sykdikalistiskt Forum
Ovre Husargatan 27
Gothenburg, Sweden
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The commemoration of the Nakba is marked each year on May 15, a day of remembrance of the expulsion of the Palestinian people before and after the Israeli state declaration of independence in 1948.

Before this year’s Nakba Day, we in the Frihet at Ahed Tamimi Gothenburg will screen a film at the Syndikalistisk Forum on Thursday, 10 May, on the Palestinian liberation struggle. We will be screening the film, Radiance of Resistance, focusing on Ahed Tamimi and her cousin Janna Ayyad, and their roles in the resistance movement in their hometown of Nabi Saleh. For more information and short films, visit http://radianceofresistance.com.

Come in time to see the film, starting promptly at 6:00 pm! If you come before the film starts, you can have a coffee at the cafe, check out their books, discuss the Palestine solidarity movement, or write a letter to Ahed Tamimi or another Palestinian political prisoner.

Nakba-dagen (“nakba” betyder katastrof) inträffar 15:e maj varje år och är en dag för åminnelse av fördrivningen av det palestinska folket som föregick och följde Israels självständighetsförklaring 1948 dagen innan samma år.

Inför detta års Nakba-dag ordnar vi i Frihet åt Ahed Tamimi Göteborgfilmvisning på Syndikalistiskt Forum torsdagen 10:e maj med fokus på den palestinska befrielsekampen. Vi har det stora nöjet att visa dokumentären Radiance of Resistance som fokuserar på just Ahed Tamimi och hennes kusin Janna Ayyad och deras roller i motståndsrörelsen i deras hemby Nabi Salih. För mer info och korta filmsnuttar, besök http://www.radianceofresistance.com/. Filmen är en timme och en minut lång, den är delvis textad på engelska och innehåller våldsamma scener.

OBS: Kom i god tid så att du får plats (begränsat med platser) och så att du inte stör filmvisningen (planerad start 18:00)!

Kommer du innan filmen börjar kan du alltid ta en fika på kaféet, kolla in deras böcker, diskutera palestinasolidaritetsrörelsens utmaningar och möjligheter eller varför inte skriva ett brev till Ahed Tamimi eller någon annan palestinsk politisk fånge?

Välkomna!

Öppet kl. 16-20, film från 18:00
Syndikalistiskt Forum
Övre Husargatan 27
Hpts: Olivedalsgatan eller Linnéplatsen
Cash is Queen! (även swish)

Tillgängligheten på Forum är tyvärr begränsad – kan vara svårt för rullstolsburen att själv ta sig till badrum. Armstöd finns i badrummet. Dock är det tillgängligt i själva kafédelen. För mer info, kontakta gärna Syndikalistiskt Forum!

Saturday, 19 May
2:00 pm
Münsterplatz
Bonn, Germany
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Israel celebrates the 70th anniversary of its founding in May this year. For the Palestinians it is the 70th anniversary of the “Nakba”, the catastrophe of expulsion, land theft, occupation and apartheid, which simply will not end.

The expulsions began even before the founding of the state of Israel, just after the vote on the UN partition plan. Israel used planned massacres, such as in the village of Deir Yassin, where Zionist terror groups killed around a third of its residents in April 1948. By the end of the war, Israel had expelled about ninety percent of the Palestinians (750,000 people).

Expulsions were also illegal in 1948. Therefore, the UN called on Israel in UN Resolution 194 to allow the return of the refugees. Israel accepted the resolution to become a member of the UN, but still refuses to implement it!

Today, in the West Bank, the illegal Israeli wall separates Palestinian farmers from their fields, more than 700,000 Israeli settlers are stealing Palestinian land, countless military checkpoints are paralyzing and destroying the economy. Everyday life is determined by relentless raids, arrests and house demolitions. Meanwhile, Gaza has been converted into a permanently besieged and bombarded open-air prison.

What is the way out of this unbearable situation? Israel as an occupying power must be urged internationally to recognize the right of the Palestinian people to self-determination and to accept the provisions of international law, ie:

* the cessation of occupation and the siege of the West Bank and Gaza, the demolition of all walls and fences
*equality of the Arab-Palestinian citizens of Israel
*and the recognition of the right of Palestinian refugees to return!

Israel feiert im Mai diesen Jahres den 70. Jahrestag seiner Staatsgründung. Für die Palästinenser ist es der 70. Jahrestag der “Nakba”, so nennen sie die Katastrophe aus Vertreibung, Beraubung, Besatzung und Apartheid, die einfach nicht enden will.
Die Vertreibungen begannen bereits vor der Staatsgründung Israels, gleich nach der Abstimmung über den UN-Teilungsplan. Israel nutzte dazu planmäßig durchgeführte Massaker, so wie etwa in dem Dorf Deir Yassin, in dem jüdische Terrorgruppen im April 1948 rund ein Drittel der Bewohner töteten. Bis zum Kriegsende hatte Israel so rund neunzig Prozent der Palästinenser (750.000 Menschen) vertrieben.

Vertreibungen waren auch schon 1948 illegal. Daher forderte die UNO Israel in der UN-Resolution 194 dazu auf, die Rückkehr der Flüchtlinge zuzulassen. Israel akzeptierte die Resolution, um Mitglied der UN zu werden, verweigert aber bis heute deren Umsetzung!

Heute trennt in der Westbank die illegale israelische Mauer palästinensische Bauern von ihren Äckern, mehr als 700.000 israelische Siedler rauben palästinensisches Land, unzählige Militärkontrollposten lähmen und zerstören die Ökonomie. Der Alltag ist von unablässigen Razzien, Festnahmen und Hauszerstö-
rungen bestimmt. Gaza wurde derweil in ein permanent belagertes und beschossenes Freiluftgefängnis umfunktioniert.

Welchen Ausweg kann es aus dieser unerträglichen Lage geben? Israel als Besatzungsmacht muss international gedrängt werden, das Recht des palästinensischen Volkes auf Selbstbestimmung anzuerkennen und die Bestimmungen des Völkerrechts zu akzeptieren, dies bedeutet:

Die Beendigung der Besatzungund der Belagerung der West-
bank und Gazas, den Abriss aller Mauern und Zäune, die vollstän-
dige Gleichberechtigung der arabisch-palästinensischen Bürger
Israels und die Anerkennung des Rechts der palästinensischen
Flüchtlinge auf Rückkehr!

Tuesday, 15 May
12:30 pm
Office of Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould
104-1245 W. Broadway
Vancouver, BC
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Join us for a picket and PEOPLES’ TRIAL on May 15, 2018 as we mark the 70th anniversary of the dispossession and dismemberment of the Palestinian people and nation. Known as the “Nakba”, over 400 Palestinian towns and villages were destroyed and/or depopulated in 1948. More than 750,000 Palestinians were driven from their homes and lands, resulting in a Palestinian refugee population now numbering almost 8 million. Canadian officials were complicit in this project in 1947-48 and they are complicit now in the continuing suffering of the Palestinian people. The Canadian government has yet to condemn the Israeli murder of over 40 unarmed Palestinians(and counting) in Gaza since March 30, a number which includes children and journalists. Gaza’s population is predominantly refugees expelled in 1948.
We charge successive Canadian governments with aiding and abetting continued Israeli war crimes against the Palestinian people.
We call for sanctions on Israel now and ask the Canadian people to intensify BDS campaigns.
Remember, Resist! Palestine will be Free!

Tuesday, 15 May
6:30 pm
Folkets Bio Malmo
Friisgatan 19 D
Malmo, Sweden
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/140455056808215/

8Radiance of Resistance (USA 2017)
Documentary, 59 min. Arabic dialogue, English text

The film follows Janna Ayyad and Ahed Tamimi when they were 9 and 14 years old. Janna Ayyad has been called the youngest journalist in Palestine. Ahed Tamimi is the young activist who has become a symbol of an entire people’s dream of freedom. She was recently sentenced at the age of 17 to 8 moths in prison after slapping an Israeli soldier. Janna and Ahed belong to a generation born of parents who have never experienced anything but Israeli occupation, who grew up with soldiers and checkpoints, destroyed homes and illegal settlements, demonstrations and tear gas. The film follows them in their daily lives, while demonstrating their importance as the new generation of Palestinian resistance.

Read more about the film and watch the trailer: http://www.radianceofresistance.com/

Vi visar film med efter följande panelsamtal på Panora.
OBS! Fri entré, först till kvarn gäller.

RADIANCE OF RESISTANCE (USA 2017)
Dokumentär, 59 min, arabiskt tal, engelsk text

Filmen följer Janna Ayyad och Ahed Tamini när de var 9 år respektive 14 år gamla. Janna Ayyad har blivit kallad den yngsta journalisten i Palestina. Ahed Tamini är den unga aktivisten som har blivit en ikon som symboliserar ett helt folks dröm om frihet. Hon dömdes nyligen, 16 år gammal, till ett 8 månaders fängelsestraff efter att ha örfilat en israelisk soldat. Janna och Ahed tillhör en generation som fötts av föräldrar som själva aldrig upplevt något annat än israeliskt ockupation, och som vuxit upp med soldater och check-points, raserade hus och illegala bosättningar, demonstrationer och tårgas. Filmen följer dem i deras vardag, samtidigt som den visar deras betydelse som det palestinska motståndets nya generation.

Läs mer om filmen samt se trailer: http://www.radianceofresistance.com/

Panelsamtal: Med bland andra Per Garthon. Mer info kommer snart!

SYNOPSIS
Radiance of Résistance tells the story of Janna Ayyad 9 years old, and Ahed Tamimi 14 years old that live under military occupation in Nabi Saleh, Palestine. Janna Ayyad has been called the youngest journalist in Palestine. Ahed won the Handala Courage Award from Turkey when she was 13 and met with Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. This film will take an intimate look at their everyday lives and their importance as the new generation of Palestinian non-violent resistance.

AL NAKBA
Med våld eller hot om våld fördrevs 750 000 palestinier från städer och byar mellan åren 1947-1950. Över fyrahundra byar jämnades med marken. Denna etniska rensning, som palestinierna kallar Al-Nakba, Katastrofen, har dokumenterats i detalj av israeliska historiker. Ändå förnekar Israels regeringar att man har någon som helst skuld till fördrivningen, och man vägrar att låta flyktingarna återvända – vilket FN krävt ända sedan Israel bildades 1948. Ännu idag lever miljoner palestinier som flyktingar runt om i världen.

1967 ockuperade Israel resten av landet och fördrev ytterligare ca 300.000 palestinier. De som stannat kvar utsätts sedan 50 år för en brutal ockupations- och annekteringspolitik.

Israel har rivit mer än 48.000 palestinska hem på Västbanken och i östra Jerusalem. Genom murar och vägspärrar trakasseras palestinier dagligen. De hindras att nå skolor och arbetsplatser och att få tillgång till sina åkrar, vatten, sjukvård och social service.
Al Nakba fortsätter! Israel gör livet outhärdligt för palestinierna på ockuperad mark för att förmå även dem att lämna sitt land – Palestina.
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Arrangörer: ABF Malmö, ARF Malmö, Feministiskt initiativ Malmö, Folkets Bio Malmö, Frihetsteaterns vänner, Grupp 194 Malmö, Nyckeln till friheten, Palestinska Centret i Sverige, Palestinagrupperna, Palestinska Rättvisecentret i Malmö, Ung Vänster Malmö, Vänsterpartiet Malmö.

Monday, 14 May
5:00 pm
Square Philips
Metro Place des Arts
Montreal, Quebec
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/425500877873672/

Mark 70 years of the ethnic cleansing of Palestine.

5:00 pm, Demonstration, Square Phillips

9:00 pm, Benefit evening, Le Belmont, Mont-Royal

Tuesday, 15 May
4:30 pm
Memorial Provincial Park
450 Broadway
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/201889977280375/

AL NAKBA 70 WINNIPEG: Hope Lives in Remembrance

4:30PM:
Gather at Memorial Park (across from the Manitoba Legislature)

5:00-6:00PM:
Public Awareness Event along Osborne and Broadway (Recognition of Palestinian villages destroyed in 1948)

Al Nakba means “the catastrophe” in Arabic. May 15, 2018 marks 70 years of popular resistance against the 1948 displacement, dispossession, and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from their homes and lands. 70 years after Al Nakba, Palestinians continue to cherish and work for peace and justice — an end to the Israeli occupation and colonial settlements, the right of return, respect for Arab-Israelis’ rights, demilitarization of the region, and peaceful co-existence.

THIS EVENT SPONSORED BY:
• Canada-Palestine Support Network (Winnipeg)
• Independent Jewish Voices (Winnipeg)
• Mennonite Church Manitoba Working Group on Palestine & Israel
• Peace Alliance Winnipeg
• Winnipeg Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid

“[T]he story of 1948… is the simple but horrific story of the ethnic cleansing of Palestine… Retrieving it from oblivion is incumbent upon us… it is…the very first step we must take if we ever want reconciliation to have a chance, and peace to take root, in the torn lands of Palestine and Israel.”
— Ilan Pappe, Israeli Historian, The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine

Monday, 14 May
7:00 pm
U.S. Embassy London
33 Nine Elms Lane
London, UK
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On the eve of the 70th anniversary of the Nakba, the US will be moving its embassy to Jerusalem! Join us in solidarity with the Palestinian struggle and protest the US’s step that furthers the ongoing Nakba.

Hands off Jerusalem!
Victory to the Intifada!

Saturday, 12 May
11:30 am – 2 pm
Copley Square
Boston, MA
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7Palestinians and their allies are marking 70 years of Nakba, or the ethnic cleansing of Palestine since 1948, with an exhibit and solemn procession showcasing the nature of Israel’s ongoing crimes.

The schedule is as follows:

11:30 – Exhibit and Museum in Copley Square (Boston)
12:30 – Solemn Procession Commemorating the March of Return through Downtown Crossing
1:00 – Speak-out at Park Street Station

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Palestinians and their allies in Boston are marking the 70th commemoration of the Nakba – the catastrophic Israeli ethnic cleansing of Palestine. In 1948, almost a million Palestinians were violently dispossessed of their homes and land by Zionist settler colonialists. The emerging Israeli state stripped Palestinians of their possessions and livelihood. Many Palestinians were expelled or fled to neighboring areas and have struggled to survive and return ever since. Those who managed to stay in their homes were subjected to Israeli rule and treated as second-class citizens.

Seventy years later, the Nakba continues. Palestinians in Gaza live in the world’s largest open-air prison without sufficient access to water, healthcare, electricity, movement, and work. Those in the West Bank confront highly-oppressive Israeli occupying forces and hostile settler populations daily. Palestinians internally and externally displaced continue to struggle with life in refugee camps and have been violently targeted and uprooted again. Palestinians in Jerusalem have continued to experience “legalized cleansing” – they have no legal status and are under constant threat of home demolition; those living inside 1948 borders with Israeli citizenship are treated as less than second-class citizens. Bedouin Palestinians are under constant threat of being uprooted; and those in the diaspora have often struggled to return home and to raise their voices under fear of reprisal.

As Israelis celebrate, for the seventieth time, the anniversary of their “independence” from their settler colonial sponsor, Palestinians mark their forced expulsion and loss of their livelihood and homeland.

For example, recent events in Gaza only serve to emphasize the ongoing cleansing and conquest of Palestine. In Gaza, the Great March of Return, a peaceful encampment and weekly protests along the border with Israel, has been met with Israeli snipers firing live ammunition, rubber bullets and gas at unarmed protesters, journalists and children and has resulted in the death of over 40 Gazans and injuries to hundreds more. Rising tensions in the West Bank due to heightened Israel military pressure on places like Nabi Saleh – the home of Ahed Tamimi – further exemplifies Israel’s ongoing cleansing, apartheid, and oppression.

The undersigned groups have thus united and organized “Remembering and Resisting the 70 years of Ongoing Nakba” to draw the attention of Bostonians to the Palestinian experience of the Nakba. The exhibit will be displayed on Saturday, May 12 at Copley Square beginning at 11:30 AM. This will be followed by a Solemn Procession to commemorate the March of Return at 12:30 through Downtown Crossing and at a Speak-Out at Park Street Station at 1:00 PM. Our goal is to draw attention to the many and varied ways in which Palestinians have encountered and continue to resist the ongoing Nakba, and the ways in which Israel has ensured its legacy for generations.

Photo credit: Palestine Poster Project