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Vancouver Commemorates the Nakba, Calls for End to 64 Years of Israeli Ethnic Cleansing
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Publisher:  Seriously Free Speech Committee
Date Written:  04/05/2012
Year Published:  2012  
Resource Type:  Article

A free community supper at a Vancouver church and a march are planned for May 15 and 19 to commemorate the Nakba and to call for Canada to support the right of refugees to return to their homes, and the end to Israel's displacement of Palestinians.

Abstract:  A coalition of organizations in the Vancouver area will mark the 64th anniversary of the occupation and ethnic cleansing of Palestine with two commemorative events calling for justice in Palestine and the right of return for Palestinian refugees on May 15th and 19th, 2012.

The Nakba, meaning "catastrophe" in Arabic, describes the process of dispossession, ethnic cleansing and occupation of Palestine in 1948 and is commemorated annually on May 15. "The Nakba is continuing today. More than 7 mi...
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