Nakba consciousness-raising… in our nation’s capital

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Dan Sisken took these photos in Washington, D.C., yesterday at the Nakba commemoration:

Girl with Nakba placard
Girl with Nakba photo
woman refugee
Refugee being interviewed
tatoo palestine is free
Tattoo: "Palestine is free"
woman narrates mothers story
A woman narrates her mother's story
woman key
The key
man keyAnother key
looting
Looting photo

About Philip Weiss

Philip Weiss is Founder and Co-Editor of Mondoweiss.net.
Posted in Activism, Nakba

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  2. Annie Robbins says:
    May 16, 2012 at 5:05 pm

    yeah!!! thanks for the photos.

    • OlegR says:
      May 17, 2012 at 6:01 am

      link to haaretz.com

      Here is a good article on Haaretz (surprised me actually)
      It pretty much represents my sentiment.

      • pabelmont says:
        May 17, 2012 at 10:25 am

        For easier reading, OlegR:

        The Palestinian tragedy mustn’t be used to spark a Jewish one
        When the Palestinians finally recognize the grand Jewish narrative and the grand Jewish catastrophe, we too can recognize their narrative and their catastrophe.
        By Ari Shavit
        Not a day goes by when I don’t think about their tragedy. How can I not? When I walk around the beautiful Jerusalem neighborhood I’ve lived in half my life, their houses gaze at me. When I stroll through Jaffa’s alleyways, their absence strikes me. When I hike in the Judean Hills, the ruins of their villages won’t let go of me. The vanishing fig trees, the wilting prickly pear cactuses, the debris.
        The full text is available for Haaretz subscribers

        When my wife, a Palestinian-American, was interviewed on Boston TV, on Israel’s 40th anniversary (I think), she was asked, “Would you ever celebrate Israel’s creation?” and after some thought she answered, “Yes, perhaps, but not until the Palestinians have their own country.” This article-fragment reminded me of that.

        • Woody Tanaka says:
          May 17, 2012 at 2:11 pm

          “When the Palestinians finally recognize the grand Jewish narrative and the grand Jewish catastrophe, we too can recognize their narrative and their catastrophe.”

          What a load of self-indulgent garbage. There is simply no valid moral paradigm that says, “I get to beat the living crap out of you until you feel sorry for me.”

        • Talkback says:
          May 17, 2012 at 5:40 pm

          Poor Jews. Again they are the victims of Palestinians, because they prevent Jews from recognizing the crimes they commit against them. And if Palestinians talk about this crimes they do this only for antisemitic reasons. Oh the humanity!

  3. lysias says:
    May 16, 2012 at 5:17 pm

    Key figures prominently in Peter Kosminsky’s Channel 4 Brit TV miniseries The Promise. (DVD available from amazon.co.uk — in Region Two format — but not from amazon.com.)

    Also figures prominently in the televised (now on DVD) version of John Adams’s opera The Death of Klinghoffer (DVD now available on amazon.com, but from third-party sellers, not from Amazon itself).

  4. Gaius Baltar says:
    May 16, 2012 at 5:51 pm

    Those keys sure look like WMD! Call the ADL!

  6. Citizen says:
    May 17, 2012 at 7:51 am

    Interesting image, the girl with the Nakba photo…

  7. Kathleen says:
    May 17, 2012 at 11:06 am

    Great photos. One of the first times I interacted with a large group of Palestinians was at a Palestinian solidarity rally protest in DC at least 15 years ago. Went around and audio taped older Palestinians 70,s, 80′s. Many I talked with had been run out of their homes in the 40′s, 50′s. The stories were horrific, heart breaking. Wonderful that awareness keeps expanding. The big question is how much has changed on the ground? Just remember Art Gish saying for many years before he passed that during the 20 or so years that he had been going to the area to witness the situation had gotten much worse for Palestinians. Clearly Israel has continually been expanding illegal settlements which continues to be a huge “obstacle to peace”

  8. Taxi says:
    May 17, 2012 at 11:46 am

    For generations now, the 1967 borders was as far back as the world’s memory of the I/P conflict would go.

    My how the discourse has now changed. Thank you inventors of the internet – and a million thanks and more to all the informed bloggers who worked selflessly and tirelessly against a dark tsunami of ziobot propaganda especially in the early days, bringing the random and discerning reader, truth and documented facts of the original crime and instigator of the I/P conflict: the Nakba.

    A widening spotlight is now finally being shed on a hidden crime committed against a whole innocent nation, perpetrated and executed by zionist real estate swindlers and violent fakesters. We anticipate that justice will be served within our lifetime, and the guilty party will be made accountable for its wanton and ongoing acts of terrortism, murder and thievery.

    In the meantime, R.I.P. to all Palestinian victims of this heinous cruelty – you will never be forgotten.

  9. tod says:
    May 17, 2012 at 1:45 pm

    Except for wishful thinking and feel good posts, is there an actual enlightenment of the American population?
    Not trolling, just curios.

    • Blake says:
      May 18, 2012 at 10:42 am

      Well let’s just say the internet has killed Israeli PR (read MSM/Hasbara) and leave it at that shall we.

    • PeaceThroughJustice says:
      May 18, 2012 at 11:50 am

      “is there an actual enlightenment of the American population?”
      Not according to the latest BBC World Poll–

      “In the Western countries surveyed,views of Israel show improvement only in the US. Fifty per cent of Americans have a favourable view of Israel in 2012, and this proportion has increased by seven points. At the same time, the proportion of negative ratings has gone down six points to 35 per cent and, as a result, the US has gone from being divided in 2011 to leaning positive in 2012. These are the most positive views on Israel’s influence expressed in the US since tracking began in 2005.” …
      link to globescan.com

      The echo chamber effect is misleading a lot of Mondoweiss readers. But the truth is most of the pictures and stories seen here are only seen here. (And as I have pointed out before, even Pam Geller’s site draws twice the viewer traffic that MW does.)