Palestinian Film Screening: “The Story of Jenin” and discussion with director Ehab Ghafri

By: börek - July 14th, 2026  Filed under: Filmavond

Sunday July 19, 2026, Palestinian Film Screening” Story of Jenin” by Ehab Ghafri, 65min, 2026, in Arabic with English subtitles. Door opens at 20:00, movie and presentation start at 20:30, followed by a discussion with director Ehab Ghafri. Free entrance, donations welcome.

“The Story of Jenin” is a 65-minute documentary that tells the story of the camp and its residents since 2013, combining civilians’ daily lives with writings that reveal their ongoing suffering. The film takes us through the alleys, homes, and streets, showing their recent displacement, their waiting to return, and the mix of emotions longing, anger, and hope.
The film is a journey inside the camp, revealing life as it is truly lived there. It was produced over two years, in 2024 and 2025, while the story of Jenin is ongoing and gives an intimate, beautiful and personal look at daily struggles, fears, dreams, and moments of joy. Meanwhile, the community’s profound strength in the face of military violence and displacement comes through everywhere.

Film night at Joe’s Garage, cozy cinema! Free entrance. You want to screen a movie, let us know: joe [at] lists [dot] squat [dot] net

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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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Help for Mohammed and his family in Palestine

By: börek - June 4th, 2026  Filed under: Benefiet, Volkseten/Voku

Monday June 8, 2026, Voku, Help for Mohammed and his family in Palestine. Food served from 7pm, no reservation.

English description below.

Mohammed woont met zijn oom en tante, Ibtisam en Mustafa, ongeveer 15 kilometer ten noordoosten van Jeruzalem op een heuvel. Zij zijn Bedoeïenen, oorspronkelijk uit Hebron, en hebben in hun leven meerdere keren moeten vluchten voor koloniaal geweld. Ik heb hen drie keer ontmoet in Palestina.

Ze worden van verschillende kanten bedreigd. Ze kunnen hun erf nauwelijks verlaten, omdat ze op hun hoede moeten zijn voor kolonisten die hun dieren proberen te stelen of hen fysiek geweld aan willen doen. Aan de voet van hun erf wordt een enorme nieuwe weg gebouwd om nederzettingen met elkaar te verbinden , een weg waar zij zelf geen gebruik van mogen maken.

Daarnaast zijn Mohammeds werkvergunningen ingetrokken. Hij is onlangs opgepakt en enkele dagen vastgezet omdat hij achterloopt met het betalen van rekeningen.

Zo nu en dan zamel ik geld voor hen in, ook omdat zij daar zelf om vragen. En als iemand je om hulp vraagt die overduidelijk in erbarmelijke omstandigheden verkeert, dan vind ik zelf dat ik niet kan weigeren. Daarom haal ik geld op.

Vorige zomer hebben we met een groep vrijwilligers twee keer een Voku georganiseerd: we kookten in de Molli en buurthuis De Bol. Dat was een groot succes, en we hebben toen echt een mooi bedrag voor hen opgehaald.

We hebben veel contact en schrijven elkaar regelmatig. Ik ken hen, zij kennen mij, en ze kennen ook mijn partner, die uit Israël komt. Dit zijn mensen met de beste bedoelingen, met het hart op de juiste plek. Ze hebben het alleen ontzettend slecht getroffen door het geweld en de systematische onderdrukking die hen wordt aangedaan.

Ik probeer €1200 op te halen ,omgerekend ongeveer 4500 shekel. Daarmee kunnen ze hun rekeningen betalen en hopelijk uit een deel van de bureaucratische ellende komen. Misschien brengt dat op dat vlak wat rust. […Lees verder]

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Voku for the global Palestine benefit weekend

By: börek - April 7th, 2026  Filed under: Benefiet, Volkseten/Voku

Thursday April 9, 2026, Voku for the global Palestine benefit weekend. Food served from 7pm, no reservation.

On the coming weekend 9.-11th of April we are organizing a global Palestine benefit day. We are collecting money for communities in Masafer Yata, which is a collection of 19 villages in the West Bank, south of Hebron. These villages get constantly attacked by settlers and army, and as we see every day more people attacked, villages burnt and people being left with nothing, the situation is clearly getting worse and worse and we see it as an emergency to collect as much money as possible so those communities are able to recover and rebuild what is taken from them by the Israeli occupation. Our idea was to contact people who organize events in as many cities as possible and have them create any sort of benefit event that they see fitting for the cause (gig, soli party, soli dinner etc). we will create a flyer that contains every city where the events take place to hopefully receive more attention to the events. The money will be taken by us physically to the West Bank.

Amsterdam is going to be joining this weekend with a Classic Voku at Joe’s Garage on the 9th so this week Thursday! So come eat delicious vegan food for a very urgent cause <3 After food there will also be a talk or maybe even a discussion about the topic so feel free to join just for that as well! […Lees verder]

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VoKu to raise Money for a Friend in Need in Gaza

By: börek - February 20th, 2026  Filed under: Benefiet, Volkseten/Voku

Monday February 23, 2026, VoKu to raise Money for a Friend in Need in Gaza. Food served from 7pm, no reservation.

The donations are collected to support a friend and his family in Gaza, they have lost all their possessions and recently even their tent was flooded in harsh winter conditions. […Lees verder]

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Voku for a student in Gaza

By: börek - February 8th, 2026  Filed under: Benefiet, Volkseten/Voku

Monday February 9, 2026, Voku for a student in Gaza. Food served from 7pm, no reservation.

Currently, students from Cluj-Napoca are undergoing talks with the Center for International Cooperations at Babes-Boyay University to help Bilal move to Romania. The situation remains up in the air as the university suggested a long and exhausting route of bureaucratic madness and translations of documents in Romanian, stating at the same time that the so called Ministry suggest to universities not accept students from “war-zones”. All donations from this night will go to Bilal! show up eat a meal and be generous when spending your work tips! […Lees verder]

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To Kill a War Machine (2025)

By: börek - January 9th, 2026  Filed under: Filmavond

Sunday January 11, 2025, To Kill a War Machine (2025) * 1h 17min * in English * door opens at 20:00 * intro & first film starts at 20:30 * free entrance.

Documentary about activists from Palestine Action targeting British complicity with Israeli apartheid, how Elbit was shut down. Through real-time bodycam and phone footage, frontline activists take audiences along on their audacious raids to tear down arms factories around the UK. For many years, Palestine Action has taken consistent direct action against Elbit Systems, Israel’s largest arms firm. A once quiet killer which operates across Britain has become a better known target of the Palestine solidarity movement.

In July 2025, the British government proscribed Palestine Action as a terrorist group under the UK’s Terrorism Act 2000 after members of the network spray-painted Royal Air Force aircraft at Brize Norton. Palestine Action dissolved following the ban, but its supporters and former members continue to take legal action to reverse its proscription.
On 20 October, a press release was issued by Prisoners4Palestine stating that on 2 November 2025, the anniversary of the Balfour Declaration, activists held pending trial for actions would start on a hunger strike. The eight hunger strikers are members of the ‘Filton 24’ and ‘Brize Norton 5’ who are being held on remand. All of them are expected to be held in detention for more than a year before their trial date. Lawyers for Palestine Action have said the group can be compared to the suffragettes. Huda Ammori the co-founder of Palestine Action has said the “votes-for-women movement” would have faced the same ban, if today’s terrorism laws had been in place more than 100 years ago.
On 6 January 2026, Heba Muraisi is reported to have difficulty breathing after 65 days on hunger strike. Teuta Hoxha and Kamran Ahmad are still on hunger strike.
Since July 2025, there would have been over 2700 arrests in various demonstrations and protests.

Film night at Joe’s Garage, cozy cinema! Free entrance. You want to screen a movie, let us know: joe [at] lists [dot] squat [dot] net

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Voku to support book publishing “Tattoo on The Waterwave”

By: börek - October 26th, 2025  Filed under: Benefiet, Volkseten/Voku

Thursday October 30, 2025, Voku to support book publishing “Tattoo on The Waterwave”. Food served from 7pm, no reservation.

We are crowdfunding for this book which will be published in Arabic under the title alwashm ‘ala assaqiya, which translate roughly as ‘a tattoo on the waterwave’. It is correspondances in the tale among two friends, their relation is writing. Writing bodies on waves, conjugated by long waves of storytellers that take water tales and implace their feathers in the world of ears, to change, influence the flow of the dream (living).
These tales, mostly recorded from Palestinian old women, form the rupture in the picture, tales look at realty folded behind the tent, folded by the stars’ own hands with shining elements. Individuals weave these lines of the streamy consciousness that takes flower from the mouth. Mountains, vallies calls the human to be born, third hand weaves, third eye sees. And the flower to be born from the seed. […Lees verder]

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