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URL:https://palestinecampaign.org/events/13615/
SUMMARY:Remembering the Nakba in quiet contemplation
DESCRIPTION:Remembering the Nakba in quiet contemplation\n\n \n\nSaturday\
 , May 14th               11am to 4pm\nCornerstones\, Dalton 
 Square. (Sulyard St.)                “ thru the café ”
 \n\nFIND OUT\, KNOW MORE\n–  AN INSTALLATION TO PROVOKE THOUGHT AND FEE
 LING IN A QUIET SPACE  –\n\nEvery year Palestinians mark the Nakba – 
 “catastrophe” in English – when in 1948 around 750\,000 Palestinians
  were forcibly expelled from their homes during the creation of the state 
 of Israel. Some 500 villages were destroyed in a premeditated campaign\, a
 nd their inhabitants never allowed to return. Zionist militias\, who later
  became the Israeli Defence Force\, committed massacres in Deir Yassin\, L
 ydda\, Tantura and dozens of other Palestinian communities.\n\nA critical 
 understanding of the Nakba is essential as it continues to shape Palestini
 ans’ experience. Palestinian society was all but destroyed\, with refuge
 es scattered around neighbouring states and across the world. These refuge
 es and their descendants number over 5 million people today\, and are divi
 ded between Lebanon\, Jordan\, Syria\, The West Bank\, Gaza and internally
  in Israel.\n\nJordan                           
                                      
                    2 million\nLebanon         
                                      
                                      42
 7\,057\nSyria*                              
                                      
                     477\,700\nThe West Bank      
                                      
                             788\,108\nGaza  
                                      
                                      
           1.1 million\nwith at least another 250\,000 internally 
 displaced Palestinians in Israel.\n*Many Syrian refugees are in fact Plaes
 tinian – displaced once more by the war in Syria\nThe displacement\, dis
 possession and dispersal of the Palestinian people is known to them as an-
 Nakba\, meaning “catastrophe” or “disaster”.\n\nIsrael continues t
 o deny Palestinians their fundamental rights\, including\, crucially\, the
  right of return. While Israel’s Law of Return entitles automatic citize
 nship to Jews born anywhere in the world\, Palestinian refugees are denied
  the right to return to their homes and land\, from which they were expell
 ed\n\n&nbsp\;\n\nThere will be a collection for MAP\n\nWe will be selling 
 some Hadeel Palestinian made crafts – and other crafts made to raise fun
 ds for MAP
LOCATION:Cornerstone Cafe\, Sulyard Street\, Lancaster\, United Kingdom
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