Palestinian activists protest ‘Yom Ha’atzmaut’ celebrations
By Yaseen Kippie Tensions broke out at the Baxter theatre in Rondesbosch on Monday 1 May as the South African Zionist Federation (SAZF) celebrated Israel's self-proclaimed Independence Day, 'Yom Ha'atzmaut', This day has been labelled differently by Palestinians as 'Yawm an-Nakba', or the ‘Day of the Catastrophe' - when more than 700,000 Palestinian Arabs fled or were expelled from their homes, during the 1948 Palestine war. On Monday night, hundreds […]
