On this day in 1976, Palestinians initiated a campaign of resistance, including a general strike, occupations, and violent confrontation with police, in opposition to Israeli settlement plans. The uprising is commemorated annually as Land Day.
Land Day was not a spontaneous uprising, but the result of months of planning. On May 21st, 1975, activists and Arab intellectuals held a meeting in Haifa to discuss a strategic response to Israel stepping up its campaign to appropriate Palestinian-owned land. This began a series of meetings over which the campaign was conceptualized, including a general congress that was the largest public gathering of Palestinians in Israel since 1948.
On February 14th, 1976, more than 5,000 residents rallied in the village of Sakhnin, calling for a general strike in response to Israeli repression. To prepare for the strike, local land defense committees and branches of the Communist Party distributed leaflets, organized demonstrations, and held meetings in several Arab towns and villages.
The first confrontations began on the eve of Land Day, March 29th as demonstrators in Arraba demanded the release of a local activist, closing the streets and setting fire to tires. Israeli soldiers fired on demonstrators with live ammunition, injuring many of them.
The following day, the general strike was initiated in Arab towns and villages, including the West Bank, Gaza Strip, and refugee camps in Lebanon. Israeli troops and border guards in military trucks and tanks raided Arab communities to arrest activist politicians and disperse demonstrators.
In total, six people were killed, approximately fifty were injured, and three hundred were arrested. When some of the injured applied for compensation, the Israeli Ministry of Defense categorized the Land Day confrontations as "combat activity".
The Interactive Encyclopedia of the Palestine Question describes Land Day's legacy this way: "Land Day was a turning point in the orientations and tools adopted for Palestinian struggle inside Israel. After Land Day the Palestinians in Israel gradually structured their presence as a national group inside Israel in a way that went beyond their local struggles."
During Land Day protests in 2018, seventeen Palestinians were killed, including five Hamas members, and more than 1,400 were injured in shootings by the Israeli Army during a march calling for the Palestinian right of return at the borders with Gaza.
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Feeling my sense of child like wonder and hope for the future igniting in me again
been looking into a union nearish where I live that does apprenticeships for heavy machinery. My college days produced nothing of use for me but hoping this could be the thing I need for a future. It's a paid deal and union benefits would be nice just need to keep tabs on when I can apply and do my best on an entrance exam.
Hope you get it comrade!
Do you like working with your hands? Ive done social work for years now but I have got the itch to do something more physical. Sucks trying to help people when there are no tools or resources to help with
I say I quite liked my last job though if I could navigate the politics at the nursery better I'd still be there. I do like to get tired and only thing I could complain about was my fingers getting fucked up from lifting buckets all day
A nursery sounds so fun to work at! I worked on a pot farm/hobby farm for 8 months and it was so satisfying
eh it was a lot of busy work and if I was left to my own devices it would have been nice but it's such a stressful place with all the gossip and fucking over everyone was doing to each other. more on the work it was just loading and unloading tractors full of plants from one side of a huge green house to the other. Sorry if I'm ranting still kind of peeved on how things shook out, if I can get by certs then it'll be harder to toss me out I hope
Ew that sucks! And I am always down for venting/ranting, though I dont consider what youre saying either of those. Workplace drama absolutely sucks; like we spend more time with our coworkers than friends and family we should at least try to get along somehow or leave eachother alone. Either way I hope you get into the new gig! Seems that finding work has been tough
Thank you and your right on the work stuff. I know things tend to fall through but gotta take it one step at a time on my end