With Rochester Jewish Voice for Peace, we’re in the A-Shed, number 99. It’s on the southeast side of the market, at the Railroad Street end of the A-Shed, as shown on this map.
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RW4P joins Rochester Jewish Voice for Peace in shed-A, stall 81 today. Details of our Rochester Public Market activity are here.
Public Market A-32
RW4P joins Rochester Jewish Voice for Peace in shed-A, stall 32 today. Details of our Rochester Public Market activity are here.
The NAKBA continues: the story of Water
This year the 75th anniversary of the NAKBA or catastrophe is being remembered. In May 1948 the State of Israel was unilaterally declared. There was no acknowledgement that this declaration was predicated on the demolition of nearly 400 Palestinian villages, the theft of land, and the expulsion of at least 750,000 Palestinians from their homes and homeland.
As we remember this horrific story of ethnic cleansing, including instances of massacre, it is important to be reminded that the NAKBA did not begin, nor did it end, in 1948. This story of dispossession and dehumanization began in the early decades of the 20th century; it continues until today, with the news of Israeli government officials urging illegal Israeli settlers to launch a series of attacks on Palestinian villages in the occupied West Bank. Violence continues to escalate. Since the start of 2023, at least 174 Palestinians have been killed by the IDF and settlers in the West Bank and Gaza.
The continuing NAKBA is destructive not only of the Palestinian people, homes, and culture; it is destructive of the land and water and air. The story of water is particularly telling. Indeed, one of the most catastrophic and continuing consequences of the NAKBA is the impact of Israel’s policies on Palestinians’ access to adequate supplies of clean water.