event details posted by: begins: May 20, 9:30 pm ends: May 20, 11:00 pm location: 19th and JFK, Philadelphia, PA 19103

Protest 63 years of Israeli Occupation of Palestine May 20, 2011 at 4:30 p.m.
 
March from Israeli Consulate (19th & JFK) to City Hall
 
This spring marks the 63rd year of the formal existence of Israel----63 years since the state of Israel was founded on stolen land that was ethnically cleansed of its native population.
 
Palestinians term the occasion the 'Nakba' or 'catastrophe.' After all this time, year after year, they are still unable to return to their homeland, and are forced to remain under Israeli occupation where they are stripped of all basic human rights.
 
In reality, the Nakba never ended, and continues to this very minute, to the seconds that pass as you read this letter. While Zionists celebrate Israel's "Independence Day," we will be mourning the hundreds of thousands of Palestinians who were forced from their homes, who were massacred, and who still suffer as a result of Israel's brutal policies.
 
The Nakba continues because of US taxpayer funding of Israeli Apartheid.
 
On May 20th, we will bring to the attention of Philadelphians that Palestine is still the issue, with a poster for each year since 1948.
 
Israel must end its brutal ethnic cleansing of Palestinian land.
 
Philadelphia Against War - phillyagainstwar@gmail.com
 
Endorsed by: Brandywine Peace Community; Build Bridges Not Walls, Bubbies and Zaydes for Peace in the Middle East; Philadelphia BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions); ANSWER Philadelphia; Philadelphia International Action Center; Party for Socialism and Liberation; International Socialist Organization; PRAWN (Philadelphia Regional Antiwar Network); Socialist Action; Delaware Valley Veterans for America; Workers World Party