Benefit Voku for a family in the village Bil’in in the occupied West Bank

By: börek - July 3rd, 2026  Filed under: Benefiet, Volkseten/Voku

Monday July 6, 2026, Benefit Voku for a family in the village Bil’in in the occupied West Bank. Food served from 7pm, no reservation.

The benefit of this voku will go to family from the village Bil’in in the occupied West Bank.

Bil’in is located 4 km east of the Green Line, near the Israeli separation barrier in the West Bank, a barrier that the International Court of Justice ruled, on 9 July 2004, to be contrary to international law.

Since January 2005, the village has organized weekly protests against the construction of the Wall. These protests have attracted media attention and drawn participation from Israeli leftist groups such as Gush Shalom, Anarchists Against the Wall, and the International Solidarity Movement. The protests take the form of marches from the village to the Wall’s construction site, aiming to halt construction and dismantle what has already been built. Often, these protests escalate into confrontations between occupation soldiers and village youths, involving the firing of live ammunition and tear gas by the soldiers and the throwing of stones by the youths; occupation forces have employed various measures to suppress the protests, including curfews, night raids, and the arrest of residents.

Several clashes broke out between demonstrators and Israeli occupation forces, resulting in numerous injuries among the Palestinian citizens- including severe ones – and claiming the lives of several martyrs, among them Emad Burnat’s nephew, Islam Burnat. The young martyr Islam Wael Burnat (16 years old) was from the village of Bil’in, west of Ramallah. He was martyred on 18 May 2021, after being shot in the head by occupation forces while participating in a peaceful march held in solidarity with Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip. He was a tenth-grade student.

The benefit of this voku will go to Emad Burnat’s family, which, among other families in Bil’in, have been heavily involved in the struggle and fight for freedom of this village and its people.

For those interested in the situation in Bil’in, the documentary “5 Broken Cameras“, from Emad Burnat & Guy Davidi, portrays the struggle of this village against violence and oppression. Come and enjoy some nice vegan food and contribute to a good cause.
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Movie night: Five Broken Cameras

By: börek - June 1st, 2013  Filed under: Filmavond
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Sunday June 9th 2013, Movie night: Five Broken Cameras (documentary from Emad Burnat & Guy Davidi, Palestine/Israel, 2011, 90 min.) with English subtitles. Door open at 8pm, film begin at 9pm.

His West Bank hometown of Bil’in having turned into a site of weekly civil disobedience and provocative Israeli land development, Palestinian Emad Burnat, a family man, took to documenting the clash, beginning in 2005. Unwittingly, he started calling himself a journalist—isn’t that often how it happens?—and while Burnat’s equipment suffered the brunt of his risk (see title), the results are eye-opening. Sharpened into an adrenalizing narrative by codirector Guy Davidi, 5 Broken Cameras places you squarely in the face of interrogating Israeli soldiers or dangerously close to Humvees being pelted with rocks. Blocky settlements and separation barriers materialize over the years; we come to recognize the main protesters and worry about their safety every time they approach the front lines. […Lees verder]

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Resistance Against The Occupation Of Palestine

By: börek - June 15th, 2009  Filed under: Benefiet, Infoavond

Monday June 15th 2009, Resistance Against The Occupation Of Palestine, Infonight and Benefit Voku – 18:30 infoavond met Ashraf Abu Rahmev (Bil’in/Palestina), Lymor Goldstein en Inbar Choresh (Tel Aviv/Israel) – 20:30 Benefiet-eten met veganistisch mediterraans eten. [English below…]

Drie activisten uit Palestina en Israel spreken aanstaande maandag over verzet tegen de bezetting van Palestina. Daarna benefieteten. Kom ook!
Ashraf Abu Rahmev woont in Bil’in, een dorp in de bezette Westelije Jordaanoever. Elke week demonstreren de bewoners van Bil’in tegen de muur, die Israel dwars door hun land heeft aangelegd. Het Israelische leger reageert doorgaans met veel geweld op de demonstraties. Ashraf werd onlangs neergeschoten terwijl hij gehandboeid was. Ashrafs broer Bassem is in april dit jaar gedood door het Israelische leger tijdens een geweldloze demonstratie.
Lymor Goldstein en Inbar Choresh zijn actief in Anarchists Against the Wall, een directe actiegroep opgericht in reactie op de bouw van de muur die Israel in de Westelijke Jordaanoever bouwt. De groep werkt samen met Palestijnen in een gezamenlijke strijd tegen de bezetting. Lymor werd in zijn hoofd geschoten tijdens een demonstrtie in Bil’in en is mensenrechtenadvocaat. […Lees verder]

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Bil’in my love (Shai Carmeli Pollak, Israel/Palestine, 2006, 85 min, eng subs) – Weekly Film Screening

By: börek - April 25th, 2007  Filed under: Filmavond

Bil’in_my_love_Shai_Carmeli_PollakWednesday April 25th 2007 – Weekly Film Screening: Bil’in my love (Shai Carmeli Pollak, Israel/Palestine, 2006, 85 min, eng subs)

The film is about the non-violent co-struggle of Israeli’s (‘Anarchists Against the Wall’), Palestinians and international activists against the wall and occupation in the village Bil’in in Palestine. The film was recently shown in the International Film Festival Rotterdam, where it got the Special Mention prize in the Movies that Matter Award-ceremony. The film also won the Wolgin Award for Full-length Documentary Film 2006 at the Jerusalem International Film Festival.

This is a film about how one loses fear of an oppressive army, about the Palestinian struggle to maintain their land and demand their freedom and about an Israeli film maker who crosses the line and befriends a Palestinian village. Shai Carmeli Pollak did not come to Bil’in as a film maker, but as an activist to take part in the protest against the land theft caused by the separation barrier. For a year and a half, he used his camera to document the moments of despair and hope, danger and courage and the birth of true partnership between Palestinians and Israelis. During this period, the village has become a symbol of the joint struggle against the barrier and the occupation.
The director focuses on two central figures: Mohamed, a member of the village’s local committee against the barrier, and Wagee, a farmer and father of ten, who is losing the majority of his land to the barrier and to the settlement. The film exposes the extraordinary relationship formed between the villagers and a group of Israeli activists, against the backdrop of their struggle. The conflict that arises between Shai and the soldiers serving in the area is not only between a director and the subjects he is documenting, but also the conflict between a former soldier turned peace activist and the entire military organization.

Website: http://www.claudiusfilms.com

Provoking documentaries, movies off the beaten mainstream path and other material you probably wont be able to see outside of film festivals and similar special events… Please note: This is not a bar evening or kitchen evening. If you want to eat or drink, please come on the days assigned to those activities. There’s no food, and drinks can be ordered before and after the film only.

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