Iziko Museums of South Africa and the Yasser Arafat Foundation and Museum have collaborated on an exhibition that depicts land acquisition, displacement and resistance in Palestine.
in Cape Town on August 8 at the Iziko Bo-Kaap Museum on Wale Street, with representatives from the Yasser Arafat Foundation and Museum, including Hanan Jarrar, Palestinian ambassador to South Africa.‘It is up to us because when we went through apartheid, the outside world carried us. They gave us hope when they put sanctions against South Africa and all these interventions.
‘Exhibitions like these are crucial for building solidarity and understanding across borders and generations… The forced removals in South Africa and the forced displacement in Palestine, are not merely political issues. They are profound human tragedies that touch the very essence of our shared humanity.’Yasser Arafat Museum director, Mohammad Halayka said: ‘When I came to South Africa, I went to Robben Island.
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