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.