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The Joint Nakba Remembrance Ceremony 2024 טקס הזיכרון המשותף לרגל יום הנכבה مراسم ذكرى النكبة المشترك (CfP)
May 15 @ 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm
טקס זיכרון משותף לרגל את יום הנכבה: מכאב לשחרורA joint memorial ceremony on the occasion of Nakba Day: from pain to liberationThe Joint Nakba Remembrance Ceremony is a unique opportunity to commemorate the pain and tragedy of the Nakba (“catastrophe” in Arabic), when in 1948 more than 700,000 Palestinians were expelled from their homes, became refugees and had their villages and cities destroyed. The ceremony started as the sister event to the annual Israeli-Palestinian Joint Memorial Ceremony. As shared by CfP activists, “The two ceremonies aim to liberate us from the mental cage of the current situation. We are locked in and imprisoned by a drawn-out limbo of oppression and violence which seems to have always been here and seems will never end. We aim to present this reality of bereavement and dispossession not as a natural and inevitable fact, but as a result of human choices. Seeing these choices for what they are and then choosing differently will allow us to break out of the present and shape a better future.”In Israel, even mentioning the word “Nakba” is completely taboo, however we believe that peace and reconciliation involves a sincere and honest reckoning with this history that didn’t end in 1948 but continues until this day. In the aftermath of October 7th, a second Nakba has been unfolding in Gaza. There are around 1.9 million people currently displaced in the Gaza strip and many of their homes have been destroyed by Israel’s brutal attacks. This mass displacement brings back terrible memories of the events of 1948 for many Palestinians.
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