The Arabic word for flag is Alam. And it's also the subject of a film, a sad film, but very insightful too. Its about Palestinian kids that are being taught by Israeli teachers. And they hate it. And every time something happens in the community under occupation, the kids want to raise the Palestinian flag.
Sometimes one of their comrades would get killed, shot by the Israelis, as is happening now in Gaza and on the West Bank.
They would raise the Palestinian flag and the black flag to commemorate the death of their friends.
This a similar story a symbol of resistance happened today (9 March 2024) in Magandjin, and that's Brisbane, in Queensland, where we had the march of 1000 flags. Here is that story ...
