When You Remember Deir Yassin (Fomite Press) is a forthcoming volume of poems “on the subject of the occupation and destruction of Palestine” by R. L. Green. Green is a poet, musician, music producer, painter, and a former member of the Deir Yassin Remembered Board of Advisers. For a sample of Mr. Green’s poetry please […]

MEDIA BACKGROUNDER #2 Contact: Deir Yassin Remembered – deiryassinremembered@hotmail.co.uk Gill Kaffash – gillkaffash@hotmail.com – +44 7919 871845 Paul Eisen – paul.eisen@hotmail.co.uk – +44 7831 627560 Pictured below is Ehab Hassan Shalabi, the nephew of Omar Shalabi, Fatah Secretary-General (Jerusalem) and Deir Yassin Remembered board member. The elder Shalabi will be visiting the UK for Deir […]

MEDIA BACKGROUNDER Contact: Deir Yassin Remembered – deiryassinremembered@hotmail.co.uk Gill Kaffash – gillkaffash@hotmail.com – +44 7919 871845 Paul Eisen – paul.eisen@hotmail.co.uk – +44 7831 627560 Early in the morning of April 9th 1948, commandos of the Irgun (headed by Menachem Begin) and the Stern Gang attacked Deir Yassin, a beautiful Arab village with cut stone houses […]

Below is the first stanza of “Semitic Blood Feud” by Gregory M. DeSylva. You can read the entire poem on the DYR main website. “Come, let us go down and confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.” – Genesis 11:7 Why such discord between Arab and Jew? Descended from Semites of […]

Deir Yassin Day 2013 April 9th – Deir Yassin Day – The 2013 London Commemoration Tuesday April 9th (Deir Yassin Day) at the St. John’s Wood Church NW8 (near the Central London Mosque). This central, prestigious and very beautiful church has long been a friend of Deir Yassin Remembered and has already hosted three commemorations […]

Here’s an excerpt from a new article by British journalist Alan Hart: I find myself wondering how many of our present day leaders, President Obama in particular, are aware of what happened in Palestine that became Israel on 10 March 65 years ago today. On that day in 1948, two months before Israel’s unilateral declaration […]

*Ilan Pappe, January 4, 2013, “Can we find compassion for Israelis in 2013?” on RighteousJews.org