Pro-Palestinian protesters march through the city, encircling people setting up tents on Drexel campus

[David__77]

Hundreds of Pro-Palestinian protesters marched from City Hall to University City Saturday afternoon, where they linked arms around people who set up tents on Drexel University’s campus.

Before processing, speakers addressed the crowd, marking the anniversary of the 1948 Nakba, and demanded a permanent ceasefire in Gaza.

As they marched from City Hall down JFK blvd and Market Street, protesters held signs with the names of Palestinian cities and the number of Palistinians killed and displaced there.

The Nakba, which means ‘catastrophe’ in Arabic, is remembered by Palestinians on May 15, which this year fell on the day after Israel celebrated its independence day. Nakba refers to the mass displacement of 700,000 Palestinians before and during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, as Palestinains were expelled from the land that is now Israel and were not permitted to return.

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https://whyy.org/articles/pro-palestine-ceasefire-march-center-city-philadelphia/

[RandySF]

1. I hope they enjoy their stay on a sweltering, empty campus.

[msongs]

2. gee in the 60s peaceful protests were a good thing lol

[IbogaProject]

5. Drexel is on quarter system

They are still in class right now.

[David__77]

6. Yep through late June.

[LiberaBlueDem]

3. Okay

Good to hear about this!

[JohnSJ]

4. So now arguing over the formation of Israel is a general discussion topic

of course ignoring the actual history of the area is conveniently ignored, from WWI, the Mufti of Jerusalem, the British Mandate, the Ottoman Empire, the landowners in Lebanon who owned land after WWII, and refusal to accept a Jewish and Arab section, and multiple wars.

[David__77]

7. You see, there was a protest related to Gaza, according to the article.

[JustAnotherGen]

13. 586K Jews expelled from Arab countries

It's the world's dirty little secret.

https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jewish-refugees-from-arab-countries#google_vignette

Throughout 1947 and 1948, Jews in Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Libya, Morocco, Syria, and Yemen (Aden) were persecuted, their property and belongings were confiscated, and they were subjected to severe anti-Jewish riots instigated by the governments. In Iraq, Zionism was made a capital crime. In Syria, anti-Jewish pogroms erupted in Aleppo and the government froze all Jewish bank accounts. In Egypt, bombs were detonated in the Jewish quarter, killing dozens. In Algeria, anti-Jewish decrees were swiftly instituted and in Yemen, bloody pogroms led to the death of nearly 100 Jews

Of the 820,000 Jewish refugees between 1948 and 1972, more than 200,000 found refuge in Europe and North America while 586,000 were resettled in Israel - at great expense to the Israeli government, and without any compensation from the Arab governments who had confiscated their possessions. The majority of the Jewish refugees left their homes penniless and destitute and with nothing more than the shirts on their backs. These Jews, however, had no desire to be repatriated in the Arab World and little is heard about them because they did not remain refugees for long.

Thieves. I see no difference between the Arab Countries theft of property and removal of Jewish people and that of the Third Reich.

We might not have the population of Jewish Israelis that exist today - if the leadership of Arab countries had not behaved the way they did - and instead been an example of how Muslims and Jews could live side by side without issue.

Egypt was not just some little made up colony. Its an Ancient Continuous country (unlike say - the USA) and they could have behaved better. Would Egypt allow the descendants of those expelled 70 years to return and obtain the wealth and assets their families had stolen from them?

Nope.

[PCIntern]

15. Thank you for this post

Likely it will go unread by those who don’t want to know the truth. Nothing new…

[OneGrassRoot]

16. Thank you. I had no idea...

I'm trying my best to glean a comprehensive understanding of the Israel-Palestine history, more in depth than the paltry amount of education we received, which is extraordinarily difficult. When people say it isn't complex, I can only surmise they don't really want to learn about it.

[JustAnotherGen]

18. There is so much

Info - some by Arab country - that it's like playing jenga. You get a new piece of info then a piece from the bottom gets pulled.

Egypt had a,ramp up in 1956/1957. Some of the Egyptian Jews went to Israel and some went to Brazil.

[Nixie]

17. Yes, their mission creep consistently makes it obvious

that it's not really about what they say it is about.

[gulliver]

8. Enforce all relevant laws to the letter.

Allow protesters to protest. If they go outside the law or disrupt anyone's ability to do anything they have a right to do, then arrest, expel, jail, and deport offenders.

Protest is allowed. But if you slow down traffic, you have trampled on the rights of others and deserve, like anyone, to be held accountable and punished.

[revmclaren]

10. Are you actually comparing these protesters

With the civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated Southern United States in 1961 protesting racial injustice in this country....protesters who did not attack police, vandalize buildings and prase terrorists and and block jews from free entry?

Here...educate yourself...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_Riders

[Rhiannon12866]

11. The Freedom Riders were protesting lack of enforcement of the law.

[JustAnotherGen]

14. Next level

Due Process & Equal Protection - 5th and 14th.

The laws existed -but my dad and his parents, siblings, etc etc were not equal in the eyes of Alabama. In America. Here since at minimum 1832.

[JustAnotherGen]

12. I don't know

What that poster wrote - but if it was another comparison between Jim Crow and Palestine -

Thank you for challenging them.