PHOTO ESSAY ~~ THE NAKBA MEMORIAL EVENTS IN NEW YORK

Electronic billboard at 8th Ave. and 42nd St.

PHOTO CREDIT: MOHAMMAD BARAKAT

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On Friday, the 16th of May, hundreds of people turned out at Times Square in New York to commemorate 66 years of the Nakba …

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Photos © by Bud Korotzer

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A day earlier, NYU Students for Justice in Palestine held a Memorial ‘Die In’ at the plaza of NYU’s Stern School for Business in Manhattan …

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The United Nations Aid Agency helps us remember the Nakba by documenting photos of the exodus …

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UN photo archive tells story of Palestinian exodus 

 

In bid to preserve documentation of Palestinian ‘Nakba’ refugees, UN aid agency has digitized thousands of photos in organization’s archive.

See the full AP Report HERE

 

1 Comment

  1. Stuart Livingston said,

    May 18, 2014 at 19:37

    BRAVO!!!!