The Nakba Demands Justice
THE GANGS of Israeli teenagers grip their oversized machine guns as they patrol the Damascus Gate, tossing their stun grenades and hearing the stones roar back in the original Arabic: “Jerusalem for the Palestinians.” What scenes those steps have borne witness to a Nakba, a catastrophe. A shattering of history, a rending of Palestinian masses, now reunited and marching steadfastly along Route 1 toward Al-Aqsa Mosque on one of the last evenings of Ramadan to protect their city, to defend it from Israeli attempts to cleanse it of Palestinian life. In Jerusalem, a boy throws his shoe at a soldier, hitting him squarely in the face. In the neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah, the breakers of the fast are pelted by settler stones, summarily returned and then some. The apartheid state blankets the Palestinians with water cannons, with beatings, with tear gas, and the apartheid newspapers call for peace-on-both-sides, and a deputy mayor of the apartheid city looks on
Women who Build the Future: Zohar Chamberlain Regev
Zohar Chamberlain Regev, who is Israeli, works as a volunteer at the
Palestine Museum of Natural History, which is directed by
Dr. Mazin Qumsiyeh. The Museum’s motto is
respect for oneself, respect for others and respect for ones’ environment, as a form of non-violent resistance to the occupation.
Zohar was part of the international coordination of the
Rumbo a Gaza campaign for years, participating in the
“Freedom Flotilla”, a ship that has sought to break the blockade Israel has had on Gaza since it occupied these territories in 1967, but especially since Hamas won the 2006 elections.
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The Palestinian Museum launches phase two of its Digital Archive project to include more than 360,000 items 21/April/2021 04:19 PM
The Palestinian Museum launches phase two of its Digital Archive project to include more than 360,000 items
Photo from the Palestine Museum.
BIRZEIT, Wednesday, April 21, 2021 (WAFA) – The Palestinian Museum announced the launch of phase two of its Digital Archive project (PMDA), which will continue for three years as of March 2021 and when complete, the archive will include more than 360,000 freely-available items, according to a press release.
During phase two, the project will widen its reach, gathering Palestinian archives from families and institutions, and from diaspora Palestinians in Jordan and Lebanon. The aim is to digitize and publish 180,000 archival items that shed light on different aspects of Palestinian social history from the 1800s to the present day.