Join us to watch two short documentaries. One exploring Palestine before the Nakba and the events that led up to it. The other how the shadow of the Nakba adds to the fears of people in Gaza, many from families expelled from their homes in what has now become Israel, during the Nakba. We will also talk to Palestinians about their family stories of Old Palestine before the Nakba.
Palestine 1920: The Other Side of the Palestinian Story
A thriving trading nation or a land without a people? Historians and witnesses tell the other side of the Palestinian story.
“A land without a people, and a people without a land” is how the relationship between Palestine and the Jewish people was described by Christian writers in the 1800s. And the 20th-century history of the Middle East has largely been written through these eyes.
But this film from Al Jazeera Arabic looks at Palestine from a different angle. It hears from historians and witness accounts, and features archive documents that show Palestine as a thriving province of Greater Syria and the Ottoman Empire at the dawn of the 20th century.
(47 mins)

Memories of Old Palestine with Palestinian panel

Palestine: Transfer
An Al Jazeera People & Power investigation made in February 2024 Looking at whether the permanent transfer of Palestinians from Gaza is Israel’s ultimate goal.
At that time Israel’s war on Gaza had displaced nearly two million Palestinians, the majority of them were sheltering in the southernmost city of Rafah.
As calls by some Israeli politicians to permanently expel Palestinians from the Strip, fears were growing of yet another forced population transfer. (25 mins)

Suggested Donation £5 on the door – All money goes to families in Gaza

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