Syria and Palestine
Channel: CCAR Account
Date: 15/08/2016

The Syria Solidarity Movement is pleased to share the lecture by Prof. Nour El-Kadri (University of Ottawa), delivered last week at the World Social Forum in Montreal, in which he discusses the deep ties between the people and government of Syria, on the one hand, and the Palestinian resistance, on the other. Prof. El-Kadri debunks the notion, current among certain Palestinian solidarity activists, that the Syrian government was somehow responsible for Palestinians in Syria being turned into refugees twice: once in 1947 by the Zionist colonial project, and then again since 2011 in Syria. On the contrary, he demonstrates that Palestinians were always treated with dignity and with equal rights by the Syrian government and that their present misfortune is part of the illegal western war of aggression against all Syrians, that is now dragging on into its sixth year.