#handsoffjerusalem

“Rarely, if ever have the Palestinians carried the sympathetic optics of the day. Especially with the Western media/television outlets. Well dressed American and Israeli officials on one side of the screen: desperation, death and fires on the other.” #USEmbassyJerusalem #Gaza

Stop trying to justify the occupation of Palestine. #HandsOffJerusalem

Photos:  Within our Lifetime • United for Palestine, Bill Dores, KC Cornsh

Photos by Maggie Vascassenno and Mike Chickey

On Monday, May 14th, the NY4Palestine coalition and the Palestinian and Arab communities of New York and New Jersey will heed the call to mobilize for Palestine in the historically Arab neighborhood of Bay Ridge. We aim to voice our demand for the Right of Return for ALL Palestinians to return to the land of Palestine -- from Gaza to al-Quds, from Haifa to Nablus, from the East to the West, the North to the South and the River to the Sea. May 15 will mark 70 years of the catastrophe known as the Nakba, where hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were expelled from their homelands and forced into the condition that continues to this day. The Nakba did not start in 1948, and did not end in 1948. With each martyr, with each home destroyed, with each settlement built, the Nakba continues. Despite this, seventy years of dispossession and genocide has not extinguished the flames of seventy years of resistance and dignity. Adding salt to the wound of the Nakba, the Trump regime declared that the United States will move its embassy in occupied Palestine to al-Quds (Jerusalem). israel has taken this opportunity to cement its usurpation of not just Jerusalem, but all of Palestine. Since Land Day on March 30, the Palestinian people have engaged in a six-week campaign called the Great March of Return. As of May 9th, 50 Palestinians have been martyred by Zionist forces, who have shot intentionally at the unarmed protestors, aiming to stop the inevitable march of the Palestinian people to Return. Palestinians, according to all international norms and traditions of oppressed peoples, have the inalienable Right to Resist, no matter what, no matter how, no matter when. We aim to declare our unequivocal support for the Great Return March - and demonstrate that the Palestinian diaspora is part and parcel of the struggle for Palestine. Stand with us this Monday, May 14, on 72nd St and 5th Avenue with the Palestinian and Arab community to demand return of the people, return of al-Quds, and return of the land. Free Palestine!