Dozens of Arab students and left-wing political activists at Tel Aviv University mark “Nakba Day,” or the “catastrophe” of the creation of the state of Israel in 1948.
At the same time, right-wing students hold a counter-rally.
Two activists — one right-wing and one left-wing — are detained by police for disturbing the peace.
The ceremony is attended by the Joint [Arab] List’s Ayman Odeh, as well as right-wing activists Michael Ben-Ari and Bentzi Gopstein.
“We can argue about what happened here in ’47 and ’48, but one thing we cannot argue about — that the Arab, Palestinian nation, the villagers, paid the heaviest price through no fault of their own,” Odeh tells Channel 2.
Arab Israeli and left-wing student activists hold a rally marking the Nakba anniversary at the Tel Aviv University in Tel Aviv on May 20, 2015. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)An event marking “Nakba Day” at Tel Aviv University on May 20, 2015. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)Leader of the Joint (Arab) List, Ayman Odeh (C) seen at a memorial service during a rally marking the Nakba anniversary at the Tel Aviv University in Tel Aviv on May 20, 2015. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
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