News Highlights:
- Two people were severely injured in Bilin during its weekly anti-wall march, that also highlighted the 62nd anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba or dispossession.
- Israeli authorities prevent Prof. Noam Chomsky from crossing the Allenby Bridge into the occupied Palestinian territories, detained him for 5 hours and then deported him; Chomsky was to speak at BirZeit Univeristy near Ramallah.
- The Israeli government is reportedly planning to demolish and evacuate dozens of Palestinian homes and buildings in occupied East Jerusalem.
Feature:
The feature was a commemoration of the 62nd anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba or dispossession and included 3 reports or personal statements, two from Palestinians and one from an Israeli Jewish mother. The first was about the meaning of Nakba day, the ethnic cleansing that took place and is still happening and the sanctity of the right of return. The second was a story by an American Palestinian whose grandmother had survived the Deir Yassin massacre. The last statement was by Nurit Peled-Elhanan, an Israeli educator, about why she mourns on Nakba Day and how she wants her children to know she supports the dispossessed so they will believe in a future with hope and justice.
Focus on Zionism:
A May 18th, 2010 press release from the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel welcoming the cancellation by Elvis Costello of his scheduled performances in Israel
Here is an audio file of this show: