Zochrot Organizes First March of Return in Tel Aviv-Jaffa

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Zochrot Organizes First March of Return in Tel Aviv-Jaffa

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Around 100 participants marched through the streets of Tel Aviv-Jaffa covering a route that formerly connected two Palestinian villages that existed within the city boundaries until 1948. This was the second year the Israeli organization Zochrot organized a right of return march on the anniversary of the Nakba.

The march passed through city streets named after leading Zionist figures, including Jabotinsky, Namir, Weizman and Pinkas. Participants read texts highlighting the role of these figures in the Nakba. They also offered to replace the street names with names more suited to a peace-seeking society. Participants called upon the Tel Aviv city council to names streets in the city after the six villages that existed in the area until 1948: Jarisha, Sheikh Muwannis, Jammasin al-Gharbi, Abu Kabir, Salama and Summayl. Symbolic signs were erected to relocate the names of Jammasin and Summayl, telling the history of these villages the deportation of village residents in 194
For more information visit the Zochrot website, www.nakbainhebrew.org.

Published in The Threat of Disengagement (Summer 2004)

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