Nakba Day—the Memory of the Catastrophe—is observed annually on May 15. It commemorates the Nakba, the violent uprooting and expulsion of more than 700,000 Palestinians, following the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948.
Hundreds of villages were destroyed, families torn apart; many people were forced to flee or prevented from returning. Gaza became one of the places where a large number of these displaced people and their descendants were crowded together. But May 15 is also International Conscientious Objectors’ Day—a day to remember those who, for reasons of conscience, refuse to bear arms. Tens of thousands of young people have taken to the streets in Germany in recent days for this very reason. The fact that both commemorations fall on the same day seems signif
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Geb. 1950 in Johannesburg/Südafrika, Promotion in Physik in Göttingen, 20 Jahre am Max-Plank-Institut für Strömungsforschung mit Zwischenaufenthalten am CALTECH/USA, University of S. Australia, TU-Eindhoven und der Medizinische Universität Graz. Z.Zt Dozent an der PH-Weingarten und Lehrer an Waldorfschulen.