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DTSTART:20130324T140000Z
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URL:https://palestinecampaign.c6digital.dev/events/palestinian-culture-chr
 istianity-event/
SUMMARY:Palestinian Culture & Christianity Event
DESCRIPTION:Our special cultural event at St Barnabas Church\, Walthamstow.
   Taking place on Palm Sunday\, it's the day Catholic Palestinian christ
 ians celebrate the start of Holy Week (Orthodox christians follow on two w
 eeks later) marking when Jesus returned to Jerusalem\, riding into the cit
 y on a donkey symbolising peace and humility\, passing over palm leaves sy
 mbolising victory\, peace and immortality.  \n\n https://www.facebook.co
 m/events/349477815163452/ \n\nSome view Jesus' dramatic gesture as an act
  of resistance to encourage the local population to overcome of the oppres
 sive colonial occupation of that time by peaceful means.  This has some 
 resonance for Palestinians in contemporary times.  For believers\, Jesus 
 was dead and immortalised by the end of that week\, and nowadays that sacr
 ifice is eerily evoked in microcosm every Friday by the largely muslim Pa
 lestinian population\, in the same occupied East Jerusalem streets and sur
 rounding occupied villages and fields all over the West Bank\, by Palestin
 ian non-violent resisters trying to overcome another colonial occupation\,
  suffering their own imprisonment and murder this time at the hands of Isr
 aeli occupation forces\, at Bil'in\, Ni'lin\, Nabi Saleh\, Jayyous\, Salfi
 t\, Al-Khader\, Hebron\, Qalandia\, Anata\, Abu Dis\, Nablus...  For som
 e you can stretch the resonance as far as the Palestinian hunger strikers\
 , like Samer Issawi\, barely clinging on to life after over 200 days witho
 ut food\, as gentle and steadfast as ever.\n\n \n\nThis Palm Sunday we wi
 ll be exploring the reality of Palestinian diversity: approximately 20% of
  the diaspora/shatat worldwide is Christian but fewer than 2% are left in 
 Palestine today.\n\n \n\n + Despite Israeli propaganda to the contrary\,
  Palestinian Christians are treated exactly the same as all Palestinians o
 f any faith or none - with implacable discrimination by Israeli authoritie
 s.  Particularly with their Muslim brothers and sisters\, Christian Pale
 stinians are subjected to a vicious game of destruction and humiliation by
  Israeli Authorities\, with monasteries and churches being partitioned off
 \, graffitied and arson-attacked\, families harassed\, farms destroyed\, l
 ivelihoods ended.  \n\n \n\n+ In the face of unusually outspoken UK Gove
 rnment intervention\, currently near Bethlehem the famous Palestinian Crem
 isan vineyards and monastery are gradually being torn apart and the Christ
 ian community there decimated by Israeli civilian and military forces bui
 lding an extension to the illegal Apartheid separation Wall - http://engl
 ish.alarabiya.net/articles/2013/02/12/265931.html - http://www.guardian.c
 o.uk/world/2012/oct/04/william-hague-vincent-nichols-west-bank-barrier\n\n
  \n\n+ Again\, in the face of international aprobrium\, Recently in Gaza\
 , Israeli authorities made no difference whom they 'carefully' bombed - Mu
 slims and Christians alike were slaughtered - http://ocl.org/the-funeral-o
 f-salem-paul-sweliem-in-gaza-city/ - http://www.euronews.com/2012/11/20/de
 ath-then-funerals-in-gaza/  \n\n \n\nCome along to discover what it mea
 ns to be Palestinian - that Palestinians are one distinct and yet amazing
 ly diverse people\, standing together as Muslims\, Christians and many oth
 er religions and none.  Learn from fascinating speakers\, visual displays
  and literature\; sample some delicious Palestinian food\, music and dance
 \; and celebrate Palestinian fortitude and humanity.  \n\nDo join us for 
 a wonderful and fascinating afternoon! All welcome!\n\n  \n\nWaltham For
 est Palestine Solidarity Campaign\n\nPatrons:  Neil Gerrard\, Jean Lamber
 t MEP\, Prof Nur Masalha\n\nFacebook:  www.facebook.com/walthamforestpsc\
 n\nTwitter:  @wfpsclondon\n Web:  http://wfpsc.blogspot.com\n\nPost:  W
 FPSC c/o Hornbeam Centre\, 458 Hoe St\, Walthamstow\, E17 9AH\n\nEmail:  
 wfpsc@yahoo.com
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LOCATION:St Barnabas Church\, Walthamstow\, St Barnabas Rd\, E17 8JZ\, Lond
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