advocacy....awareness....solidarity

‘NEWly released Gaza Christmas card ‘Silent Night’‘ 

This Christmas send a message in more ways than one. Your Christmas greeting to family and friends can double as awareness raising about the situation in Palestine.

Wording on the back of Silent Night:

“Sounds of relentless fighter planes unloading their deadly deluge with constant drones flying overhead…the night is not silent in Gaza.
Rumbling stomachs deliberately starved of food…the night is not silent in Gaza.
Cries of traumatised children woken from a nightmare only to realise they are still living that nightmare…the night is not silent in Gaza. 
Wounds unattended, people withering in pain as one hospital after another is closed due to damage or deprived of supplies…the night is not silent in Gaza. 
The cries of the innocent lamenting how they remain unseen by world leaders…the night is not silent in Gaza.
At this Christmas time, when the message of peace on earth is echoed, a peace dove gathers up and cradles the rubble that entombs those whose night will forever now be silent. In their memory please don’t remain silent.”

‘nakba exhibition booklet‘ 

Late last year PIEN was involved in an exhibition highlighting the 75th anniversary of the Nakba. The exhibition was held at St Paul’s Cathedral in Melbourne and was co-hosted with Free Palestine Melbourne. Together we produced a stellar exhibition that focused on historical, cultural, personal stories and current reality of the past 75 years of the ongoing Nakba. One of the key organisers of the exhibition, artist Gaye Paterson, has produced this excellent digital booklet that showcases the exhibition with added content taking into account what has unfolded this year. 

You no doubt have heard it said that

“Israel was formed on a land without a people”.

To answer those who espouse this view, show them this booklet. It highlights what a thriving, bustling economy existed and how unjustly it was taken away.