Dublin - Remembering the Palestinian Nakba: A cultural evening of film, photos, readings & music

dublin | rights, freedoms and repression | event notice Sunday May 08, 2011 19:11 by Kev - IPSC info at ipsc dot ie

Join the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign for a cultural evening of film, photos, discussion, readings (poetry and testimony) and music remembering the 63rd year of the Palestinian Nakba.

The event will take place between 6 and 10pm on Tuedsay 17th May 2011 in The Pearse Centre (aka The Ireland Institute), 27 Pearse Street, Dublin 2.

All are welcome and entry is free

What is Nakba?

Al Nakba (The Catastrophe) is what Palestinians call the events of 1947/48 when - on the back of a campaign of vicious ethnic cleansing in which over 700,000 Palestinians were expelled from their homeland never to return - the establishment of the State of Israel was achieved.

Every year, on 15th May Palestinians and their supporters around the world mark Nakba Day. In 2011, the Israeli parliament criminalised commemoration of Al Nakba within the state[1].

Notes

[1] http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/human-rights-group...59802