Holocaust survivor Stephen Kapos and Nakba survivor Antoine Raffoul met in person for the first time on Saturday 11 October, after decades of activism for the Palestinian people and against Israel’s occupation, apartheid, and genocide.

When Holocaust survivor Stephen Kapos and Nakba survivor Antoine Raffoul met in person for the first time

Both men survived appalling horrors and cruelty – Stephen Kapos as a child escaping the Nazis in Hungary and Antoine Raffoul the Nakba, or catastrophe, in which almost 800,000 Palestinians were driven at gunpoint from their homes, with massacres and atrocities, as the west created the state of ‘Israel’.

Both men, by coincidence, became architects – and both, not by coincidence, have dedicated themselves to ending the injustice of the apartheid occupation and Israel’s campaign of extermination against the Palestinian people. Kapos was arrested by police in London earlier this year for protesting against the genocide and subjected to a lengthy interrogation under caution.

The meeting of the two triggered many tears among those watching:

The men now campaign alongside their daughters, Andrea Kapos and my dear friend Yasmine Say.

Featured image via the Canary

By Skwawkbox

This post was originally published on Canary.