Beginning in May 1949, tens of thousands of Yemenite Jews were brought to Israel on transport planes during Operation Magic Carpet.
The
Zionist movement, with the assistance of European colonialism, planted a
western warship in the very heart of the Arab and Muslim world. This warship is
guided by leaders with numerous skills and extensive experience in oppressing
and humiliating which they learned in their own countries in Europe. This
diseased group took over this area and during 120 years of oppression, we are
witness to the Zionist expansion in the region.
The
Zionist movement in this region was founded on American and European support,
and is equipped with the most advanced weaponry in the world, including nuclear
weapons.
Sixty
years ago, following the deportation of the Palestinians from their land, Jews
from Arab and Muslim countries were brought to Palestine with the full cooperation
of Zionists and leaders from North America and Europe. The Jews from Arab and
Muslim countries were slated to act as spare parts in place of the Palestinian
deportees following the ethnic cleansing of Palestinian Arabs. This was in
order to substantiate the demographics and militarism of the Zionists. These “spare
parts” have now arrived at a situation of advanced decay and deep depression
following years of humiliation, disinheritance and ethnic discrimination, as
the European Jewish Zionists always viewed the Jews from Arab and Muslim
countries as potential enemies, due to their proximity to Arab and Muslim
culture.
Audience on 29 April, at the exhibition opening night (photos below also from the opening night).
Artists and cultural activists play crucial
roles within their own societies, generating public discussions and discourses
on a variety of topics through the use of their innovative cultural mediums.
Although no one doubts the pivotal roles of artists, actors, musicians and
cultural creators in fostering social change, these groups have not hitherto
been systematically involved in civil society engagement with the
Palestinian-Israeli peace process. Their involvement, within and amongst
Palestinian, Israeli and international civil societies, can make a potentially
strong contribution to the building of a culture of resistance and ending the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict while preparing for a future of joint living for
Palestinians and Israelis.
To commemorate 60 years to the Naqba
and within the framework of its Culture of Resistance activities, the Alternative
Information Center (AIC) most cordially invites you to an art exhibition that it
is holding together with Arabita: The League of the Arabs of Jaffa and the Alon
Association. Entitled Good Morning Jaffa, the exhibition explores the
connections between exile, culture and right to come home.
The exhibition opens on Tuesday night, 29
April, from 7.30 p.m. in the Center of the League of the Arabs of Jaffa, 73
Yefet Street, Jaffa. The opening night will be accompanied by a musical
performance - and dare we hope that the artist, Yousef Katalofrom Hebron, receives permission to enter Israel
and attend?
The exhibition runs through 1 May, and is
open from 10am to 9pm.
A Palestinian loading fuel for Gaza near the Nahal Oz crossing between Israel and the Gaza Strip
Al-Haq l Al-Mezan
Center for Human Rights l Al Dameer Association for Human Rights – Gaza l Gaza
Community Mental Health Programme l Gisha – Legal Center for Freedom of
Movementl Hamoked: Center for the Defence of the Individual l Physicians for
Human Rights-Israel l The Public Committee Against Torture in
Israel l Yesh Din: Volunteers for Human Rights
Palestinian
and Israeli human rights groups today issued an urgent call to cease
restrictions on Gaza's fuel supply
and stop the unprecedented harm to Gaza's
humanitarian needs. The
above-listed rights groups warned:
"We
express concern and outrage at the systematic dismantling of the Gaza Strip's vital systems by preventing the residents of
Gaza, a territory under Israel's
occupation, from obtaining the fuel they need to generate electricity, power
hospitals, run transportation, pump water and sewage, and provide for basic
social and economic needs.
We call
upon Israel, the occupying power in Gaza, immediately to end the six-month long
restrictions on fuel supply that have paralyzed Gaza's
infrastructure and endangered the health and well-being of Gaza's 1.5 million residents.
We call
on armed groups in Gaza to refrain from attacking civilians, including at the
crossings that channel fuel, food, and other goods into the Gaza Strip.
The
17th of April marked Palestinian
Prisoners Day, commemorated annually as a means for remembering and informing
the local and international communities about the ongoing suffering of
Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails.
American author Russell Banks is scheduled to attend the first annual International Writers Festival in Jerusalem.
Dear Russell Banks:
As people who are
aware of your honourable history of activism on the Israel-Palestine issue,
we're struggling to understand why you've agreed to take part in the
International Writers' Festival in occupied Jerusalem in May this year. It
doesn't add up.
In July 2002 you
signed an international appeal for Israel to stop obstructing the work of
Birzeit University in the Palestinian West Bank (illegally colonised by
Israel). We know you did, because at least two of us were co-signatories of
that appeal.
Six years later, are
Birzeit and its students any closer to enjoying the right to pursue education
free from military incursion, arbitrary arrest, detention without charge or
trial, checkpoint, curfew, destruction of equipment?—all the so-called 'security'
measures that Israel brings to bear to deny young Palestinians an education,
demolish their hopes, and encourage them to leave. You surely know the
answer.
You, we, and the
other signatories to the 2002 appeal called for the international community to
'assume its responsibility under humanitarian law by taking real and concrete
steps to provide protection to the Palestinian civilian population'. You must
know that today the Palestinian civilian population is more exposed than ever.
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