Nakba Tour 2019 kicks off in Bethesda: much more to come!

The North America Nakba Tour 2019 kicked off in Bethesda, Maryland, on Monday, March 4. 89-year-old Mariam Fathalla (Umm Akram), a Nakba survivor from the village of al-Zeeb in Palestine who remains a stateless Palestinian refugee to this day, was joined by Amena ElAshkar, a 24-year-old journalist and translator who

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Announcing the 2019 North America Nakba Tour

71 Years Without a Country: Stateless Palestinians from Lebanon In some ways time stopped in 1948 for the Palestinian refugees in Lebanon.  Many of them and their descendants are living in the same refugee camps created when the Zionist forces expelled them from  Palestine in that year. Israel expelled most of the majority

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Demand an end to child detention: #FreeAhedTamimi and all Palestinian political prisoners

The North America Nakba Tour is a signatory to the statement below about prominent Palestinian child prisoner Ahed Tamimi. Organizations can support and sign on at the Google Form. You can join a Twitterstorm online to #FreeAhedTamimi at 10 AM PST daily: https://www.facebook.com/FreeTamimiWomen/ DEMAND AN END TO CHILD DETENTION: FREE AHED TAMIMI AND ALL

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