Jun 18 2008
Sixty years since the Nakba - public meeting
July’s Socialist Resistance London forum looks at the sixty years since the state of Israel was proclaimed.
You can download the flyer here.
Its foundational myths are that the Zionist colonisers were Davids fighting a Goliath, compelled by the Holocaust to carve out a haven of safety, with no desire to force out the indigenous Palestinians who departed voluntarily.
But that falsity has been exposed. The opening up of official records has revealed that 1948 was in fact a brutal act of mass ethnic cleansing.
The Palestinians call 1948 the Nakba (catastrophe)
Indian YMCA, 41 Fitzroy Square,
London, W1 (Warren St tube)
Wednesday 9 July @ 7.30pm