Yesterday Students for Justice in Palestine and Students Against Israeli Apartheid from Washington D.C., Maryland and Virginia, (DMV-SJP & SAIA; George Washington SJP, American University SJP, George Mason SAIA and Georgetown SJP, University of Maryland SJP) decided to crash a pro-Israel street festival and educate the crowd about the Nakba. The festival took place in the Mosaic District, a new urban district in Fairfax, Virginia, a hop, skip ‘n jump from Washington D.C.
We hope you enjoy this storified version of their fantastic action.
There are hours of remaining video. Rumor has it the best is yet to come.
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The Zionists are finally getting whats long due to them. Let them hiss and scream abuse and use foul language.It is they who will convince people who the real problem makers are. I look forward to the day when the Nakba can be remembered and Zionists can do nothing but stand by and wonder where it all went wrong for them. Of course they will blame Jew hatred and anti semitism and pogroms and blood… Read more »
Let’s hope a few people listened.
i really hope everyone opens rania’s instagram videos at the links, they are awesome.
and please click the “READ NEXT PAGE” because there is a killer video on it!
Random guy: “This is America” FTW!
omg!!!!! Simply , absolutely breathtaking– in NOVA! Verbal hasbarists with faces!
Thank you SJP, SAIA, Rania, Lena (woo-hoo!!!) and ms. annie!
This, I pray, will go viral lickety- split. That open letter sums up sooo much.
Thank you.