“Albustan” Kindergarten becomes “Maoz”, Arabs out, Jews in.

Just two weeks before the start of school year of 2014/2015, eleven Arab-Palestinian families, residents of Ramat Ashkol neighborhood in Lydd, heard from one of the kindergarten teachers that the Lydd Municipality decided to move their children, who are with special needs, to another kindergarten building, or rather caravan, about 5 km away from their neighborhood.

 

After the news about the takeover of “Albustan” kindetgarten, the families went to check the matter. To their surprise the kindergarten was named “Moaz” instead of “Albustan” and became a Jewish only kindergarten. The Arab family were kicked out by Jewish religious women, who apparently work at the kindergarten. 

Jewish women kicking out Palestinian mothers from “Albustan”

 

Not only that the municipality did not notify officially the families of the Arab children,  to bring  Jewish ones from Ultra Orthodox families, who live away from the place. Find the logic here! 

 

Not only that the municipality decided on its own to move the children to another-far- kindergarten, without ensuring them a proper transportation, it moved them from a stone building into a caravan that is in a miserable situation (see photos, taken just a week before the opening of the school year), and unsafe.

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#PopeInPalestine: Images the occupation will not like!

Pope Francis stops to pray  at Israel’s separation and annexation Wall in Bethlehem. 

Of course these images will not change the reality, nor the Pope visit will. But they show a reality that can not be ignored, or whitewashed.

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احشد انزل شارك|Mobilize| 17-31.3.2014

مظاهرة “لا تهدم بيتي” لاهالي النقب ضد هدم البيوت المستمر من قبل سلطات الاحتلال، يوم الاثنين 17/3/2014 الساعة 19:00 مساء في القدس

Protest in Jerusalem, Monday 17/3/2014, 7pm, against house demolition in the Naqab.

https://www.facebook.com/events/226678710867658/

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الخميس 20/3/2014 سلسلة بشرية الساعة 16:30، مقابل شرطة اللد -شارع كاتسنلسون 25

Thursday, 20/3/2014, protest in Lydd against women’s killing.

 https://www.facebook.com/events/668676976512677/?ref=2&ref_dashboard_filter=upcoming

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الجمعة 21-3- 2014, اطلاق حملة “ارفض شعبك يحميك” حملة رفض التجنيد الاجباري للشباب الفلسطينيين الدروز في جيش الاحتلال الاسرائيلي، الساعة 12:00 ظهراً، على جبل الرافضين أمام سجن عتليت العسكري الغاشم.

Friday, 21/3/2014 12 noon, Launching the campaign against compulsory military service imposed on the Palestinian Druze youth, in front of Atlit military prison.

https://www.facebook.com/events/240349309480523/?ref=2&ref_dashboard_filter=upcoming

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الجمعة 21-3-2014، يدعوكم فريق ساند للمشاركة في اليوم التطوعي لدعم ومساندة “دار اليتيم العربي” في مدينة نابلس. حيث سيتم تنظيم برنامج تطوعي داخل الدار

Friday 21/3/2014, voluntary day in orphanage shelter in Nablus.

https://www.facebook.com/events/293131257505925/?ref=2&ref_dashboard_filter=upcoming

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الاربعاء والخميس 26+27/3/2014، حملة مناهضة الخدمة المدنية في الرملة واللد

اليوم الاول: الاربعاء 26/3/14 الساعة 15:00 في النادي المسيحي – اللد، يوم دراسي حول الخدمة المدنية

اليوم الثاني: الخميس 27/3/4 الساعة 18:00 في ساحة الجامع والكنيسة، مهرجان مناهضة الخدمة المدنية

Wednesday and Thursday 26+27/3/2014, two days of action against civil service in Lydd,

https://www.facebook.com/events/470831046378046/?ref=2&ref_dashboard_filter=upcoming

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الخميس 27\3\2014 والجمعة 28\3\2014، اسبوع مناهضة الابارتهايد الاسرائيلي في عكا

Thursday and Friday 27+28/3/2014، Israeli Apartheid week in Akka

https://www.facebook.com/events/304616936352712/?ref=2&ref_dashboard_filter=upcoming

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الجمعة 28\3، التشبث بأرض رمية – مظاهرة في قلب كرميئل – الساعة  13:30

ضمن النشاطات القطرية للجماهير العربية بمناسبة يوم الأرض الخالد

תושבי ראמיה דבקים באדמתם – הפגנת תמיכה נגד הגירוש
ביום שישי 28.3 בשעה 13:30 – עברית אחרי הערבית
Friday 28.3, at 13:30 Clinging to the land of Ramiya – a demonstration in Karmiel
Demo  13:30 (see below

https://www.facebook.com/events/838484819513210/?ref=2&ref_dashboard_filter=upcoming

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 الجمعة 28/03/2014، امسية شعبية، سياسية، فنية بمناسبة ذكرى يوم الأرض الخالد.الساعة السابعة مساءً (19:00) في ساحة عين العذراء، الناصرة.

Friday 28/3/2014 at 7am, Political and cultural evening for Land Day, at Mary’s Well Square, Nazareth.

https://www.facebook.com/events/1415073685413857/?ref=2&ref_dashboard_filter=upcoming

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الجمعة 28/3/2014, جولة الى مثلث يوم الارض تنطلق من القدس الساعة 8:30 صباحا

Friday 28/3/2014, a tour to Land Day villages

https://www.facebook.com/events/1452607838305671/?ref=notif&notif_t=plan_user_invited

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السبت 2014\3\29، عشية يوم اﻷرض تنظّم جمعية الدفاع عن حقوق المهجرين وجمعية زوخروت _ذاكرات ، جوله في قرية حدثا المهجّره (الحدثه )، الواقعه في الجليل الاسفل، على شارع رقم 767 بين كفار تابور وبحيرة طبريا ، قرب قرية كفر كما ، مقابل موشاب سرونه ، وذلك عشيّة يوم الارض الخالد ، في تمام الساعه الحاديه عشره وحتى الساعه الواحده بعد الظهر

Saturday 29/3/2014 at 11am, a tour in the uprooted village Hadtha, near Tiberias.

https://www.facebook.com/events/203411116535109/?ref=2&ref_dashboard_filter=upcoming

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السبت 2014\3\29، تدعوكم القوى الوطنية والحراكات الشبابية في مدينة القدس المحتلة للمشاركة الساعة 3 عصرا بمظاهرة ذكرى يوم الأرض الفلسطيني.

المكان: سيحدد لاحقا.

Saturday 29/3/2014 at 3pm, protest in Jerusalem for Land Day.

https://www.facebook.com/events/1561230890768703/?ref=2&ref_dashboard_filter=upcoming

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الأحد، 30/3/2014، ذكرى يوم الارض. اضراب عام في الاراضي المحتلة عام 1948

Sunday 30/3/2014 LAND DAY memorial. General strike among Palestinians 48.

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Boycott campaign is essential for effective pressure on Israel

This article was published first on The National 

The Palestinian cause is not a charity. The international community, however, has often failed to grasp the nature of the struggle for justice, preferring to channel funds to Palestinian “development” projects to compensate for the lack of will to put serious pressure on Israel. That mentality has been challenged by two recent reports that suggest that lip service to justice for Palestinians could be transformed into critical action.

Read about Oppression, Act for Prisoners

Last Thursday, another layer from Israel’s democratic mask, was removed.

Separation Diary-Short film

This is a 7:30 mins film, I had the privilege to work on with Salim Abu Jabal (director and editor) and Habib Siman (Camera).

The “Arabwashers” of Apartheid

“The most potent weapon of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.”  Steven Biko

As in South Africa during Apartheid, where the white regime used some black collaborators to “blackwash” Apartheid, Israel is doing the same.

Israel who never adheres to International law or UN resolutions, seems to be worried of “Israel Apartheid Week” (IAW), and it has all the reasons. Eight years ago, “Israel Apartheid Week” started in four campuses in Canada, this year its taking place in more than 100 campuses around the world. The BDS movement (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) is gaining momentum, growth and significant milestones.

Open Letter from Taiseer Khatib: Raise your voice against Apartheid

I’m bringing here a letter written and distributed by Taiseer Khatib, from Akka (Acre).Taiseer, his wife Lana and two children, Yusra (3) and Adnan (4), are one of the thousands families that will have to live apart, after the approval of Israel high court’s approval to the racist Citizenship Law. They face now a real and ‘legalized’ threat of deportation of Lana back to Jenin.