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[Cork] Palestinian music and poetry evening (Rafeef Ziadah, Terez Sliman, Phil Monsour)

Commemorating Al Nakba: Celebrating Palestine Tour in Cork on Thursday May 17th

Venue: The Pavilion, Carey’s Lane, Cork City – Doors 8pm – Entry €8/€5 concession

FOR BOOKING: [email protected] or tickets available from the venue

[Dublin] Palestinian music and poetry evening (Rafeef Ziadah, Terez Sliman, Phil Monsour, Thom Moore, Joe Dunne)

Commemorating Al Nakba: Celebrating Palestine Tour in Dublin on Friday May 18th

Venue: The Teachers Club, 36 Parnell Square West, Dublin 1 – Doors 8pm – Entry €10.

FOR BOOKING: [email protected] or 01 6770253

[Belfast] Palestinian music and poetry evening (Rafeef Ziadah, Terez Sliman, Phil Monsour)

Commemorating Al Nakba: Celebrating Palestine Tour in Belfast on Saturday 19th May

Venue: Crescent Arts Centre, University Road, Belfast – Doors 8pm – Entry £10

FOR BOOKING: [email protected] or tickets available from the venue


[Derry] Palestinian music and poetry evening (Rafeef Ziadah, Terez Sliman, Phil Monsour, Conor Kelly, Abby Olivera)


Commemorating Al Nakba: Celebrating Palestine Tour in Derry on Sunday May 20th

Venue: Sandinos, Water Street, Derry City – Doors 8pm – Entry €5.

FOR BOOKING: [email protected] or tickets available from the venue


Please Like the following page for information about the whole tour plus updates: https://www.facebook.com/alnakbatourireland






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A major tour of Palestinian and Arab artists, with some local support, is to take place in Ireland between the 17th and 20th May, featuring cultural concerts in Cork, Dublin, Belfast and Derry. Billed as “Commemorating Al Nakba; Celebrating Palestine”, the tour will feature two renowned Palestinians, poet Rafeef Ziadah and singer Terez Sliman. Also joining them will be acclaimed Lebanese-Australian singer-songwriter Phil Mansour. In Derry there will be support from singer-songwriter Conor Kelly and poet Abby Olivera.

The tour will take place during what Palestinians call Nakba Week, which marks the 64th anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba (‘Catastrophe’) which saw the expulsion of over 700,000 Palestinians, forcibly uprooted from their homeland in order to facilitate the foundation of the State of Israel.

This tour will be both a commemoration of the catastrophe that befell the Palestinians in 1948 and a celebration of the culture, creativity and continued resistance of the Palestinian people today; whether they reside in the 1967 or 1948 occupied territories, in refugee camps, or in the global diaspora.

We are very excited about this tour and look forward to sharing Palestinian culture with Irish audiences.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

RAFEEF ZIADAH is a Palestinian refugee, poet, trade unionist and human rights activist currently based in London. She received an Ontario Arts Council Grant from the ‘Word of Mouth’ program to create her debut performance poetry album Hadeel. Rafeef’s performances of poems like ‘We Teach Life Sir’ and ‘Shades of Anger’ went viral online, garnering over a quarter of a million views between them. Rafeef has toured many countries, performing poetry and conducting educational workshops on the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign. Recently, Rafeef was chosen to represent Palestine at the Poetry Parnassus Festival at the South Bank Centre in London.

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“Rafeef’s poetry demands to be heard. She is powerful, emotional, political. Please read her work and see her perform. You cannot then be indifferent to the Palestinian cause.” – Ken Loach

TEREZ SLIMAN, a Palestinian citizen of Israel born in Haifa in 1985, is a singer who works in the field of “sound and movement.” She has participated in a variety of musical projects with local and international musicians. She has authored and composed music for two plays as well as recordings for children’s plays. Terez is influenced by many genres, but what makes her sound unique is the mix between traditional Oriental music, world music and Jazz. Her stage presence and incredible voice are completely captivating.

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“Beautiful… Terez keeps alive the music and culture of her ancestors”

PHIL MONSOUR is an Arab-Australian singer songwriter with a history of producing music that travels beyond the mainstream to explore complex issues of identity, solidarity and politics. He is also a founder of the group ‘Artists Against Apartheid’. Phil’s songs speak with honesty and insight about people’s lives and personal experiences. His latest CD release Ghosts of Deir Yassin was written during a trip to Palestine, Jordan and Lebanon. Inspired by the courage of ordinary people fighting for freedom and justice from Palestine’s refugee camps, to Egypt’s Tahrir square, through to the Occupy movement, the lyrics are a fearless rally cry for action and solidarity. Phil will be showcasing his unique collection of rock songs and folk ballads, combined to capture both the alarm and optimism of current times.

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“Phil is passionate… with amp-rattling intensity” – Courier Mail (Australia)

“Five stars” – Limelight (Australia)

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Nakba Day: Lunchtime Vigil at Israeli Embassy - Tue, 15 May 2012, 13:00

We are assembling at 1pm outside the Israeli Embassy, 122 Pembroke Road, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4
On Tuesday 15th May 2012 from 1pm – 2pm, the IPSC will hold a vigil outside the Israeli Embassy in Ballsbridge, holding large photographs from Al Nakba and Palestinian flags.

The vigil will commemorate what Palestinians call Nakba Day which marks the 64th anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba (‘Catastrophe’) which saw the expulsion of over 700,000 Palestinians, forcibly uprooted from their homeland in an act of ethnic cleansing that facilitated the foundation of the State of Israel

We are assembling at 1pm outside the Israeli Embassy, 122 Pembroke Road, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4.

Nakba Day: Moving Gallery remembering Al Nakba - Tue, 15 May 2012, 16:00 Assemble

On Tuesday 15th May 2012 at 4pm, the IPSC plans to hold a ‘Moving Gallery’, where people will walk from St. Stephen’s Green (Grafton St entrance) to the Spire on O’Connell Street carrying large photographs from Al Nakba and Palestinian flags.

We are assembling at 4pm at the Grafton Street entrance to St. Stephens’ Green, and will set off down Grafton St towards the Spire.
 
Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman Welcomes Lithuania's pro-Nazi Foreign Minister - Audronius Azubalis - to Israel

Friends at any cost: Israel is happy to welcome an Anti-Semite and nazi sympathiser to Israel.Tony Greenstein looks at whats going on here. Full text at link.

That the Lithuanian government should commemorate the memory of its quisling Prime Minister is not surprising. That the same anti-Semites who laud the Lithuanian Waffen SS survivors are also pro-Zionist is also not surprising. But that Israel's Foreign Minister, the arch-racist Avigdor Lieberman, should hosts a ministerial welcome to Lithuania's Foreign Minister, a man who tried to prevent the restoration of stolen property to its Jewish owners, should shock even a few Zionists.

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Barely a dozen demonstrators, some of whom were themselves holocaust survivors, turned out to demonstrate outside Tel Aviv’s Dan Panorama hotel. What is interesting is the reaction to the article on Ynet. The majority of them actually attack the critics of Lithuanian support for the Waffen SS. Take young Daniel, whose piece is entitled ‘YNET'S BLATANT LEFTIST BIAS’ . The unrelenting persecution of the Palestinians has led to many Israelis actually identifying with the Nazis, who also had a problem with those whose territory they occupied. ...

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http://azvsas.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/israel-welcomes-lithuanias-anti-semitic.html
 
Vigil in solidarity with Palestinian hunger strikers Mahmoud Sarsak and Akram Rikhawi

This Thursday 7th June, 5pm – 6.30pm, at the Spire, O’Connell Street, Dublin 1. In support of the Palestinian hunger strikers Mahmoud Sarsak (of the Palestinian International Football Team) and Akram Rikhawi, who are now both in critical condition. Please come along, and wear Palestinian football jerseys if you have them, or any international or club jerseys if you don’t.

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For more details about this situation check out the following link: http://www.ipsc.ie/press-releases/i...-of-palestinian-hunger-strikers-nearing-death

Please note: There will be an IPSC branch meeting afterwards at 7.30pm in the Central Hotel, Exchequer St, Dublin 2.

http://www.ipsc.ie
 
[Dublin] Goals for Gaza: 5-a-side Football Tournament Fundrasier

Sat, 30 June 2012, 14:00 Sundrive Park, Crumlin, Dublin 12

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The primary aim of GOALS FOR GAZA is connect people across communities through sport, food and fun and if we can raise some money for the Al-Huda Kindergarten in Palestine while we do then that will be BRILLIANT. So please come join is at the astro-turf pitches in Sundrive Park in Crumlin. Bring your own body, your family and your friends. Bring some food if you want to share some of your culture and culinary skill. We will have stalls with info, stalls with food and things to acquire and of course lots of football. Music and face painter.

The game is 5-a-side soccer. There is a suggested donation of €20 for a team of 5. Prizes of course for the most excellent among you. If you want to come as an individual or a group then brilliant all the better for mixing it up.

If you have a skill or an idea you want to share for the day then give us a shout.

Don’t forget its the day before the European Cup final so expect lots of football playing, talk of football, speculation on football but lots of other things too!

For bookings contact: Tina 086 871 5293 / Kate 087 132 4115

Supported by: Dublin City Council, Anti-Racist Network, Canal Communities Integration Centre, Islamic Foundation of Ireland, Irish Anti-War Movement, Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign, People Before Profit.

http://www.ipsc.ie/event/goals-for-gaza-5-a-side-football-tournament-fundrasier
 
Palestinian Hunger Strike & Prisoners Solidarity Vigil

On Tuesday 26th June, from 5-6.30pm at Dublin’s Spire on O’Connell St, the IPSC will hold a solidarity vigil for three Palestinian political prisoners who are now on hunger strike. One of them is in “imminent danger of death” according to human rights organisations in Palestine and Israel. The Irish media has refused to cover this story and the Irish government has refused to act to save the lives of these men.

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HASSAN SAFADI was detained by the Israeli military on June 29, 2011 and has been interned without trail since then under Israel’s ‘administrative detention’ regime. During the recent mass Palestinian hunger strike of over 2,000 people, Safadi engaged in a hunger strike for 71 days, and was one of the five long-term hunger strikers in administrative detention who were promised release upon the expiration of their current detention orders in the agreement that ended the mass hunger strike in May this year. On 21st June his administrative detention order once again renewed for an additional six months, in violation of this agreement. Following this, Safadi relaunched his hunger strike in protest, He is now on his 6th day of hunger strike.

AKRAM RIKHAWI from Gaza was arrested by Israeli occupation forces in 2004 and sentenced to 9 years’ imprisonment by a military court (these courts convict 99.74% of all accused Palestinians). He has been held in a prison medical centre ever since, as he suffers from various chronic conditions, including diabetes, asthma and osteoporosis. Rikhawi launched his hunger strike on 12 April, demanding that his medical condition be considered during the discussion of his request for an earlier release. Every prisoner is entitled to ask to be considered for early release when at least two thirds of the sentence has been served. He is now on his 76th day of hunger strike.

SAMER AL-BARAQ, from the village of Jayyous, near Qalqilia, has been on hunger strike since May 22. He has been interned by Israel for almost two years without charge or trail under the Administrative Detention regime. Baraq was assured by that he would will be released after the mass hunger strike of over 2,000 prisoners came to a negotiated end, however his administrative detention order was renewed for another three months in violation of the terms of this agreement, thus forcing Mr. al-Baraq to resume his strike. He is now on his 34th day of hunger strike.

ISRAEL’S PRISON REGIME

According to Palestinian Prisoners’ Rights NGOs, at present over 4,650 Palestinians are now imprisoned by the Israeli state for resisting Israeli Apartheid and occupation. Of those, 218 are children, 7 are women, 27 are elected representatives and more than 300 are ‘Administrative Detainees’ – that is they have been interned without trial not having been charged with any crime or seeing the secret evidence against them.

Those ‘convicted’ prisoners were jailed by non-jury Israeli Military Courts (Palestinians in the Occupied Territories are subject to Israeli military law. Israel’s colonial settlers are ruled by Israeli civil law – another example Israel’s Apartheid system). These military courts, biased from the outset, do not meet international fair trial standards and convict in 99.74% of cases.

Over four decades of illegal Israeli military occupation, Palestinians from all walks of life have been detained by Israel. Since the beginning of the occupation in 1967, over 650,000 Palestinians have been detained by Israel. This forms approximately 20% of the total Palestinian population in the OPT. Considering the fact that the majority of those detained are male, the number of Palestinians detained forms approximately 40% of the total male Palestinian population in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.

Israel’s brutal prison regime is only one aspect of the occupation of Palestine by Israel and its associated Apartheid regime. Indeed, when one considers the ongoing siege of Gaza and fragmentation of the West Bank, Palestine can be viewed as one large open air prison camp. It is vital that people like you take action to support the Palestinians by pressuring Israel and our own elected representatives. Below are two simple actions you can take:

TAKE ACTION

Contact An Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Defence, Mr. Eamon Gilmore TD, and ask him to intervene immediately in this looming tragedy and to speak out in the strongest possible terms.

E-Mail: [email protected]
Phone: (01) 4780822 / 1890 426700

BOYCOTT ISRAELI GOODS

Israeli fruit, veg, herbs and spices can be found on the shelves of many Irish supermarkets. If you want to show your solidarity with the Palestinian people boycotting these products is a good place to start!

You should also ask your supermarket not to stock them in the first place. Always check the label on fruit (eg peppers, avocados, dates, grapefruit, grapes, figs, passion & sharon fruit), vegetables (eg potatoes, carrots) and herbs and spices (eg basil, dill, tarragon, chives, rosemary, sage, parsley) to see if they orginate from Israel (Barcode starst with 729)- and if they do, then don’t buy them. It’s easy!

Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign

Related Link: http://www.ipsc.ie
 
Upcoming Palestine Events

THURSDAY 22nd NOV
Dublin Vigil – 5pm @ The Spire, O’Connell Street, Dublin 1
Dublin Open Meeting - 7.30pm @ The Central Hotel, Exchequer St, Dublin 2

FRIDAY 23rd NOV
Galway March – 2pm @ Westside Community Centre, Seamus Quirke Road (March to Eyre Sq)

SATURDAY 24th NOV
Cork Action – 1pm @ Daunt Square, Cork city (BDS Action)
Belfast March - 12pm @ The Art School, York St, Belfast city (March to City Hall)
Dublin Action – 2.30pm @ Grafton St, Dublin 2 (Diamonds to Dust in Disgust action)
 
UCD Lunchtime Talk on Gaza – Thur 29th @ 1pm (Dr Vincent Durac & Dr David Landy)


You are invited to a lunchtime talk and discussion on the recent Israeli attack on Gaza. The meeting will take place on Thursday 29th November from 1pm to 2pm in Theatre M in the Newman Building in UCD.

The meeting will look at the recent 8 day assault on Gaza by the Israeli military - which left at least 160 Palestinians and 5 Israeli citizens dead, and saw hundreds of others wounded – and discuss the conflict in terms of both local and regional geopolitical developments: upcoming Israeli elections; the Arab Spring; the drive for war with Iran; the political de-isolation of Hamas; the Palestinian UN statehood bid, etc. It will also look at what the offensive meant in terms of human and civil suffering.

There will also be discussion of what people can do on a grassroots, international, level to help secure a just and lasting peace in the region.

The speakers will be:

Dr. Vincent Durac of the UCD School of Politics and International Relations and author of many books on the Middle East, including Civil Society and Democratization in the Arab World: The Dynamics of Activism ( 2010) the upcoming Introduction to Middle East Politics (2013)

and

Dr. David Landy of the Trinity College Department of Sociology and author of Jewish Identity and Palestinian Rights: Diaspora Jewish Opposition to Israel (2011). Dr. Landy is also a member of the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign.

This is a public meeting and all are welcome.

The meeting takes place on 29th November, which is the International Day of Solidarity With the Palestine People.
 
Middle East: Israel annexes more land

Tony Greenstein writes on the latest extension of Zionist colonies on the West Bank. Full text at link.

It is widely accepted, not least amongst Israeli public opinion, that Operation Pillar of Defence - the murderous attack on Gaza, which indiscriminately killed all in its path - achieved nothing, other than emphasising Israel’s growing impotence in the region. ...

On November 22 the ceasefire came into effect, and a week later, on November 29, the United Nations general assembly voted to accord Palestine ‘non-member observer status’. Within hours Netanyahu had promised to build an extra 3,000 houses in the West Bank and East Jerusalem and put into effect the ‘E1 plan’ that envisages the expansion of the settlement Ma’ale Adumim, to the east of Jerusalem



In addition to stealing £120 million from the Palestinian Authority in tax revenues it continues to hold, Netanyahu has thrown down the gauntlet. The Israeli state, the only active settler-colonial state surviving, was not brought into being through peace treaties, but through creating ‘facts on the ground’. This is an old Zionist tradition - common to both its ‘left’ and ‘right’ wings.

http://www.cpgb.org.uk/home/weekly-worker/941/middle-east-israel-annexes-more-land
 
Israel-Gaza: Why did Israel do it?

The success or failure of the onslaught on Gaza can only be judged against the operation’s aims, writes Israeli socialist Moshé Machover. This is an edited version of a talk given to the December 8 CPGB aggregate

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In the last issue of the Weekly Worker there was an article by Tony Greenstein1 about the Israeli onslaught on Gaza called “Operation Pillar of Defence” in the international press.

But this is not the name that has been given to it in Israel itself. There the onslaught on Gaza was referred to as “Operation Pillar of Cloud”. Those of you who know your Old Testament well will realise that this is a reference to the time when the children of Israel were wandering in the desert, eventually to conquer the holy land. Jehovah appeared before them during the day as a pillar of cloud (and during the night as a pillar of fire). So the term was obviously used as a propagandist appeal to the Israeli public. But to appeal to the international public it was better to represent it as the “pillar of defence” - which is the one thing that it was not about.

Tony describes the operation as a failure, but he does not state what the aims of the operation were to be. A failure to do what? I happened to arrive in Israel just the day after the ceasefire was signed - it was a short visit commemorating the 50th anniversary of the first issue of Matzpen, the journal of the Socialist Organisation in Israel that came to be known by the same name. While I was there, and also in many comments afterwards, I heard any number of reasons given why Israel went through with this operation. They may all be right: after all, when a country goes to war it is normally an over-determined act, and there are several considerations.

If you want a detailed exposition of the whole background and details of the events then I recommend the ‘Gaza quiz’, composed by Stephen Shalom.2 It is a very informative document, which tests you on your knowledge of events, so I will not go into the details of the background here, except for a few salient points that throw light on the whole thing.

As I say, there were several considerations for the offensive, but one thing is quite clear: that it was a move planned some time in advance. It was not a reaction to some rockets landing in Israel from Gaza, which in any case had been provoked by Israel in the first place. But to see that it was planned a long time in advance we should note that this operation was preceded by the Israeli bombardment of the Yarmouk arms factory in Sudan about a month before, which was briefly in the news.3 The explanation at the time - quite correctly - was that this was a military exercise: the factory in Sudan is roughly the same distance away as that between Israel and the main nuclear facilities in Iran, so Israel was actually testing its ability to take them out. ...
http://www.cpgb.org.uk/home/weekly-worker/942/israel-gaza-why-did-israel-do-it
 
we MUSTN'T compare it to the holocaust!
because...well i don't know why exactly, but definitely not because i'm pro-zionist pretending to be impartial and reasonable
 
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