Jewish group tries to prevent Nakba event

A group of extremist Israeli activists attempted to prevent a Palestinian politician from giving a lecture about the Nakba in Ben-Gurion University in Beer Sheva yesterday.

The activists affiliate to the racist Israeli organisation called Im Tirtzu. They gathered at the gate of the university to prevent the head of the National Democratic Assembly Awad Abdul-Fattah from giving a lecture about the Nakba.

Arab students stopped the Jewish extremists from entering the university and the event went on as scheduled. During the lecture, Abdul-Fattah spoke about the Palestinian narration for the Nakba and gave details of the real history of the suffering of their fathers.

He described how the Palestinians were extracted from their own cities and villages in the third and fourth decades of the last century and how the Jewish gangs killed thousands of Palestinian citizens in order to establish their state.

Regarding the attempt to prevent the event, he described this as an extension to the racist Israeli policies on all sides of life when it comes to dealing with the Palestinians and their rights. He said that comes in line with the increasing aggressive trends against Palestinians in Israeli society.

The leader of the National Democratic Assembly hailed the united action of the Arab students to face the attempts of the extremist Jews to prevent the event. He hoped that this unity would exist in all anti-Judaisation activities.

In an official Israeli effort to stop Palestinians commemorating the Nakba, the Israeli Knesset approved on March 23, 2011, a law that prevents public fund for Nakba memorials.