From Remembrance to Resistance: Deir Yassin Massacre Day 2007 Commemorations

Early in the morning of April 9, 1948, commandos of the Irgun (headed by Menachem Begin) and the Stern Gang attacked Deir Yassin, a village with about 750 Palestinian residents. The village lay outside of the area to be assigned by the United Nations to the Jewish State; it had a peaceful reputation. But it was located on high ground in the corridor between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. Deir Yassin was slated for occupation under Plan Dalet and the mainstream Jewish defense force, the Haganah, authorized the irregular terrorist forces of the Irgun and the Stern Gang to perform the takeover.

In all over 100 men, women, and children were systematically murdered. Fifty-three orphaned children were literally dumped along the wall of the Old City, where they were found by Miss Hind Husseini and brought behind the American Colony Hotel to her home, which was to become the Dar El-Tifl El-Arabi orphanage. Visit http://www.deiryassin.org/

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Marks & Spencers - Oxford Street (Marble Arch end) London
Thursday April 5th - 6-8 pm

Every Thursday evening a group of activists picket the UK store Marks & Spencers. They have been there for six years now despite constant harassment from the police and Zionist counter demonstrators and a stream of derision from sections of the solidarity community.

Why Marks and Sparks? Because unlike all the other British companies which invest in Israel, M&S doesn't do it just for the money, M&S does it for the love. But why the opposition? Because M&S has for years been viewed in the UK as a 'Jewish' store so, unlike other Israel-investing concerns, M&S gets a free pass. Does this deter the picketers? Not one bit.

On Thursday April 5th saxophonist Gilad Atzmon and bassist Yaron Stavi will join us with their instruments for a Deir Yassin commemoration. Gilad's sax and Yaron's bass will accompany a recitation of the names of the dead of Deir Yassin as first performed by the London Palestinian community in 2002.

Contact: Paul Eisen - paul@eisen.demon.co.uk