NAKBA REMEMBRANCE!!
With global eyes on Gaza, NJP offers Nakba remembrance event Northfield, Minn. – (May 5, 2024) Homes destroyed. Neighborhoods flattened. Lives lost. Families shattered. Famine encroaching. Soldiers ravaging. People in despair. For Palestinians, this could describe the 1947-48 Nakba (Arabic for “catastrophe”) or the current conditions in Gaza. Together, they represent ‘The Ongoing Nakba” – the theme for this year’s commemoration in Northfield, Minn. Every year, Northfielders for Justice in Palestine/Israel commemorates the Nakba anniversary in a Bridge Square event. Audience members at the 1 p.m., May 11, 2024, event will be invited to place Palestinian flags on a 4-foot-by-8-foot map of Palestine/Israel as the names of destroyed Palestinian villages are read. The event is free and open to the public. This year’s observance features a special guest speaker. Commentator and writer Ahmed Tharwat will offer opening comments. Tharwat is host and producer of BelAhdan (Arabic for “with open arms”), an interview program offering an Arab-American perspective on the world, which airs on Twin Cities cable TV stations, and streams on YouTube at www.youtube.com/@AhmedTharwat and on his website, ahmediatv.com/.
