Tag: Cultural Erasure

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Victory is Defeat: Palestinian Children’s Art Exposes Israel’s Cultural Genocide by Ramzy Baroud

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 “We are delighted to report that Chelsea and Westminster Hospital has removed a display of artwork designed by children from Gaza.” That was the summary of a news report published on the homepage of the pro-Israel group, UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI). The group is credited for being the party that managed to successfully persuade the administration of a hospital in West London to take down a few pieces of artwork created by refugee children from Gaza.

… As ridiculous as this story sounds, it is, in fact, the very essence of the anti-Palestinian campaign launched by Israel and its allies worldwide. While Palestinians are fighting for basic human rights, freedom and sovereignty as enshrined in international law, the pro-Israel camp is fighting for a total and complete erasure of everything Palestinian. Some call this cultural genocide or ethnocide. 

Continue reading at https://www.palestinechronicle.com/victory-is-defeat-palestinian-childrens-art-exposes-israels-cultural-genocide/

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Obliterating Palestinians’ culture by Fawaz Turki

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What Israel is thus attempting to do – has been attempting to do ever since Zionism set foot in Palest – is no less than cultural cleansing, which, like ethnic cleansing, is an adjunct of genocide. Their strategy is to destroy Palestinian society from the inside out – bit by bit, one colony at a time, one check-point at a time, one curfew at a time, one land grab at a time – much in the manner that a worm slowly devours an apple.

Continue reading at http://english.alarabiya.net/en/views/news/middle-east/2016/12/15/Obliterating-Palestinians-culture.html

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Hummus-ide: ‘After Palestinian land, Israel now covets its food & culture’ on RT

The reality is that Israel has not been satisfied with just taking the Palestinians’ land, but has also for many years been appropriating Palestinian culture – including Palestinian food – and relabeling it as Israeli food. I’m talking about things like falafel, tabbouleh, hummus and other foods that are really Arab and Palestinian foods. Israel has been marketing them, pro-Israeli restaurants around the world and corporations have been marketing them as Israeli products, as an Israeli food. So, it’s very appropriate for a restaurant to do that relabeling, and say that, in fact, these are Palestinian foods, these are Arab foods, and not fall in line with this attempt at cultural appropriation on the part of the state of Israel.

Continue reading at http://rt.com/op-edge/261869-israel-palestine-culture-rotterdam/

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El Al Starts a Food Fight

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=541765985964913&set=vb.407570359384477&type=2&theater

“@AliAbunimah @El_AL_AIRLINES GENOCIDE AND INJUSTICE. OH WAIT, THOSE AREN’T CHOICES.”

Continue watching at https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=541765985964913&set=vb.407570359384477&type=2&theater

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Texas: Israel Block Party sparks annual protest

While more than a thousand students came to celebrate Israeli culture at the Israel Block Party on the East Mall, dozens protested the party from feet away… “Our biggest goal is to send a specific message [and] express exactly what we feel the block party is doing, which is a propaganda event which hides a very heinous reality of cultural appropriation and genocide,” Khan said.

Continue reading at http://www.dailytexanonline.com/2015/03/26/israel-block-party-sparks-annual-protest

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