Tag: Deir Yassin

Aftermath of bombing of Coptic Christian Church, Cairo, Egypt Palm Sunday/Deir Yassin Day April 9 2017   (The following was sent by Dr Qumsiyeh to DYR activist Chantal Cameron and passed on to us. The Hayat Balbisi mentioned was the schoolteacher working in Deir Yassin At the time of the massacre. She was 24 years old)  Today is the anniversary of the massacre at Deir Yassin. On 9 April 1948, my mother's friend in school (both studying to be teachers school in Jerusalem) chose to go back to her village of Deir Yassin. That was the last time my mother saw her young friend Hayah Balbisi and this victim of Jewish Zionism remains etched in the memory of my 84 year old mother. Deir Yassin was not the first, last, or the largest massacre comm...

April 8 2017 - Resistance at the Witness for Peace 15-year old vigil outside Beth Israel Temple, Ann Arbor, Michigan Deir Yassin Remembered is an international organisation whose aim is to build a memorial to the victims of the Deir Yassin massacre of April 9th 1948.     But the list of victims extends far beyond the 100 to 130 elderly men, women and children who died that day.  It extends also to the over 750,000 Palestinians expelled in the concurrent Zionist ethnic cleansing of Palestine, to the over 500 Palestinian towns and villages destroyed or expropriated by the Jewish ethnic cleansers and now also to their descendants - the now over six million dispossessed Palestinians living either as second-class citizens in Israel, in the towns,...