A young girl of Bethlehem in traditional Thob and Shatweh (Per Reem Ackall) ... Christians of Palestine

A young girl of Bethlehem in traditional Thob and Shatweh (Per Reem Ackall)

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Folklore, Dresses, & Debka

 

Palestine Remembered - Palestinian folklore, culture, dresses (thobs), debka (Samir)..etc including family portraits; especially during the pre-Nakba period. 

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Palestinian Christian woman of Lydda, Palestine 1923

Palestinian Christian woman of Lydda, Palestine1923

In Search of Fatima - A Palestinian Story by Ghada Karmi

In Search of Fatima - A Palestinian Story by Ghada Karmi

 

Author Ghada Karmi is pictured left

 The right to speak about Israel’s racism

By Ghada Karmi

"I was born in what is now west Jerusalem. During the war to establish the state of Israel, my family and I were forced from our home, when I was a young child. To this day, I have been prevented from returning to my home, simply because I am a Palestinian Arab – whereas any Jewish person from anywhere in the world could and can automatically become a citizen of the state.

The establishment of the Israeli state, as the ethnically defined state of what was then a minority of the population of Palestine, was discriminatory and racist. And laws and practices that discriminate on the basis of race and religion – against my people, the Palestinians – have continued to this day.

This is not only the case in relation to the occupied Palestinian territories, the illegal settlements, and the violence and abuses against Palestinian people in Gaza, but also within Israel’s borders..."... READ MORE   https://prruk.org/a-palestinian-member-of-the-labour-party-demands-the-right-to-speak-about-israels-racism/

 

Ghada Karmi and Ellen Siegel, in 1973, 1992 and 2011. Photos by Francis Khoo (1, 2) and Jean-Pascal Deillon (3).

KARMI, GHADA (1939-)

"The right of Palestinian return is enshrined in international law and historical precedent, and affirmed repeatedly by the UN. Resolution 194 was passed by the UN general assembly in December 1948 and called on Israel to repatriate those "displaced by the recent conflict" with compensation for their losses. The 1948 universal declaration of human rights states that those who leave their homes for whatever reason have the absolute right to return to them. "  Ghada Karmi, writing in The Guardian in 2011: Only Palestinian refugees can give up their right of return

“Just as the ripples of a stone thrown into a pond will spread further and further away from the source, so the ripples of the disaster in 1948 hit my parents first and then spread to us and to our children long afterwards. Seeing only the ripples, it was easy to confuse the original cause with its effects.”

— Ghada Karmi

"Israel, from its inception in 1948, has been given the most wonderful opportunity to behave itself, and it clearly has not done so. It's flouted every single law, it's behaved outrageously, it's made a travesty of international and humanitarian law. On what basis should this state continue to be a member of the United Nations?"     Interview: Ghada Karmi, a voice from exile, Executive Intelligence Review, (reprinted by Middle East Policy, Spring 2010).(available online here). Also available here: Interview: Ghada Karmi, a voice from exile at Goliath. 

Once upon a time, not terribly long ago... ‏ Miss Palestine with her two Runners-Up: Beauty in a peaceful country (Palestine) before 1947

‏At that time: Miss Palestine with her two Runners-Up

‏Beauty in a peaceful country (Palestine) before 1947! Very fashionable and Unafraid!

الجمال في بلد مسالم (فلسطين) قبل عام 1947! الأزياء الأنيقة والجمال الطبيعي بعيدا عن الخوف والرعب

من أرشيف جريدة المهاجر .

‏" From the archives of Al-Mohajer newspaper.

Thanks lovely Rima Isam Anantawi

Palestine was not an empty piece of land before Israel

Snoopes.com :  "The photo does depict a street in West Jerusalem before the founding of Israel, which happened in 1948. The image is available on the Library of Congress website under the title, "Princess Mary Street with Rex Cinema in background, West Jerusalem." It is identified as having been taken by the Matson Photo Service sometime between 1940 and 1946...

"Matson (G. Eric and Edith) Photograph Collection," which consists of photos taken across Palestine between 1898 and 1946.

One of the notes in the Library of Congress file says the photograph was misidentified as having been taken in Haifa in the photographer's logbook, but one clue that may have led to the location being confirmed as Jerusalem was that the Rex Cinema can be seen further up the street, in the background of the photo.

The Rex Cinema served as an iconic gathering place for for Arabs and Jews during the contentious period of the British Mandate, according to a blog post from The National Library of Israel. A short film, "Cinema Rex," was even released in 2020. The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) caption reads as follows: "In a divided city, two kids from rival sides meet at Cinema Rex. He speaks only Hebrew, and she speaks only Arabic. They will manage to form a true friendship based on one magical language, the cinema."

In May 1939, the first of two main attacks on the theater was launched by the Irgun (a Jewish right-wing underground movement) in response to the British White Paper, which limited Jewish immigration to Palestine. The Irgun's second attack took place during the violence following the announcement of the U.N. Partition Plan in which a group of Arab youth attacked the commercial area of Princess Mary Street in December 1947. The Irgun claimed responsibility for the destruction of the Rex Cinema after the fact.

"After two attacks (some would call them acts of terrorism) by the Irgun, the magnificent 1,300-seat cinema, was destroyed and abandoned,".... READ MORE https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/palestine-photo-before-israel/

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The very first Christians were in fact Palestinians ...

A Palestinian Christian

Palestinian Arabs are both Christian and Muslim, and for over 1,500 years, were the custodians of all the Holy sites in the Holy Land. 

Thousands of ancient churches and mosques were destroyed by the Zionists in 1948 as more than 600 Palestinian villages were ethnically cleansed and erased from existence. 

The City of Bethlehem is surrounded by a giant Apartheid wall and everything and everyone that comes in and out is controlled by the Israeli army! 

The very first Christians were in fact Palestinians and just recently the world's 3rd oldest church was recently bombed in Gaza killing Christians that were sheltering there.

Mike Hanini Odetalla

(lightly edited & illustrated by Annie)

Jerusalem Via Dolorosa Station 9 - entrance to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre

 

Palestine Palm Sunday.... Before 1948 ... when all Palestinians were free to come and go from Jerusalem

Students from Notre Dame de Sion walking on the Palm Sunday procession from Bethphage on the Mount of Olives to the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem, c. 1932

 

The nuns from Notre Dame de Sion on the Palm Sunday procession from Bethphage on the Mount of Olives to the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem, c. 1932