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Letter by the gate48 board to the management of the Jewish Museum in Berlin in reaction to the resignation of its director Peter Schäfer
Read more: Letter by the gate48 board to the management of the Jewish Museum in Berlin in reaction to the resignation of its director Peter SchäferJune 18, 2019
Dear Prof. Grütters, dear Mr. Michaelis, gate48 is a platform for Israelis living in the Netherlands who oppose the occupation of the Palestinian territories and call for its end. We wish to convey to the Netherlands opinions and voices which show that criticizing Israel’s official policy is not the same as being anti-Israeli. … -
No new war in Gaza
Read more: No new war in Gaza…and yet another deadly round of fighting in Gaza It is a well-known but easily forgotten fact: the Gaza Strip is a disaster area where living is almost impossible. The Israeli decade-long siege and blockade created an area controlled by famine, death and despair. Since the beginning of 2018 almost 200 Palestinians were killed in Gaza …
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Opinion article by Galit Saporta – director of gate48 – in Het Parool
Read more: Opinion article by Galit Saporta – director of gate48 – in Het ParoolVerleden is juist de sleutel voor vrede Nakba: Israël en Palestina moeten eerst elkaars historie erkennen Terwijl het geweld aan de grens van Gaza grimmiger en dodelijker is dan ooit, ziet Galit Saporta mogelijkheden voor een Palestijns-Israëlische toekomst. GALIT SAPORTA Vandaag herdenken Palestijnen de Nakba, de catastrofe van 70 jaar geleden, toen honderdduizenden Palestijnen werden gedwongen te vluchten naar …
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Erella Grassiani, co-founder and board member of gate48 was the guest on 2 TV shows and 1 radio show
Read more: Erella Grassiani, co-founder and board member of gate48 was the guest on 2 TV shows and 1 radio showErella Grassiani, co-founder and board member of gate48 was the guest on two TV-shows this weekend, where she talked about the Nakba and about possible solutions for Israel-Palestine. At De Nieuwe Maan, she read out a column and at Nieuw Licht (EO) she was interviewed about her background and critical point of view of Israel …
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Presentation of the petition to the foreign affairs committee of the Dutch parliament
Read more: Presentation of the petition to the foreign affairs committee of the Dutch parliamentTuesday 15 of May at 13:45 in the Tweede Kamer
Make Israel adhere to the UN-convention on the Rights of the Child – Stop military trials of Palestinian children The petition of the Palestinian Children Rights Coalition was very successful. In one and a half month we received more than 5000 signatures. We would like to … -
Statement by the UN Coordinator for Humanitarian Aid and Development Activities, on the 50th Anniversary of Israel’s Occupation
Read more: Statement by the UN Coordinator for Humanitarian Aid and Development Activities, on the 50th Anniversary of Israel’s OccupationStatement by the UN Coordinator for Humanitarian Aid and Development Activities, Robert Piper, on the 50th Anniversary of Israel’s Occupation | United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs – occupied Palestinian territory// // // // This week marks 50 years since the start of Israel’s occupation of the West Bank, including …
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Bevrijding Of Bezetting, Opinion by Galit Saporta, the director of gate48, on joop.nl
Read more: Bevrijding Of Bezetting, Opinion by Galit Saporta, the director of gate48, on joop.nlOp 24 mei vierden de meeste Israëli’s vijftig jaar hereniging van Jeruzalem; op 5 juni wordt internationaal vijftig jaar Israëlische bezetting herdacht. Het verschil in datum komt door verschillende kalenders, maar uiteindelijk gaat het om dezelfde gebeurtenis: de oorlog van 1967, met alle gevolgen van dien. Vijftig jaar bevrijding of vijftig jaar bezetting – het …
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Public event and masterclass with professor Ella Shohat
Read more: Public event and masterclass with professor Ella ShohatProf. Ella Shohat is an Iraqi Israeli woman living and teaching in the U.S. She is considered one of the leading postcolonial theorists. Shohat was one of the first to write and theorize about the experience of Mizrahim, Jews from non-European/Eastern descent in Israel. To become part of the European project Jews had to de-orientalize …
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Photos from gate48’s & Issam Nadaf’s alternative Seder
Read more: Photos from gate48’s & Issam Nadaf’s alternative SederPesach in the Jewish tradition symbolizes the journey from slavery to freedom. The Hagada (the book of Pesach) tells the story of the Hebrew people as slaves in Egypt and their journey to freedom. Today, more than 3,000 years later, the Hebrew people are free, with their own nation state, but they control the lives …
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gate48 board member Erella Grassiani will open the Freedom Lecture in De balie
Read more: gate48 board member Erella Grassiani will open the Freedom Lecture in De balieMarch 30, 2017
The seventeenth Freedom Lecture is being held by Palestinian Jamil al Qassas and Israeli Assaf Yacobovitz, both active within the Combatants for Peace movement. This organization was founded in 2006 by (former) Israeli soldiers and Palestinian combatants, who decided to lay down their arms and by means of nonviolent protest speak out … -
Letter to members of the Foreign Affairs
Read more: Letter to members of the Foreign AffairsThe Dutch coalition for Palestinian children, of which gate48 is a member, send a letter last week to members of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Dutch parliament. The letter alerts them of the alarming amount of children being killed during the past years by the Israeli armed forces, both in the Gaza Strip and …
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We will not be silenced
Read more: We will not be silencedDutch after English Next week, between 14 – 16 September, the Dutch-Israeli organisation gate48 will organize the symposium Securitizing Worlds: a Critical Look at the Israeli Global Security Industry at CREA in Amsterdam. During this (academic) symposium participants will critically discuss the ways in which the Israeli Security Industry exports its technologies, knowledge and ideas all …