7 May 2026, 16:00 - 21:00
Open Kitchen : PRO-PAL FOR THE GLOBAL JUSTICE
VOKU, FreeShop, filmscreening and infopoint
hosted by the b.ASIC a.CTIVIST k.ITCHEN
in collaboration with Antonella Pintus (G.A.Z.A. Project), BDS Nederland and Palestine Café Utrecht
Plan for the day:
16:00 – 18:00
Apartheid Free Zone Info Point
hosted by BDS Nederland
18:00 – 20:00
VOKU & FreeShop
19:00 – 21:00
PRO-PAL FOR THE GLOBAL JUSTICE
filmscreening with Q&A, facilitated by Nils Brenkman, board member of BDS Nederland, and Chiara of the AFZ campaign
about the documentary:
G.A.Z.A. Project
Presents PRO-PAL FOR THE GLOBAL JUSTICE
(82-minute documentary, IT/EN 2026)
Tyrants forgot their faces under the feet of children.
MOHAMMED MOUSSA
We spent years repeating, on Holocaust Remembrance Day, NEVER AGAIN: because we knew it could happen again.
TOMASO MONTANARI
Should we have been born Palestinian, Sudanese, Herero, to experience firsthand the consequences of the genocide: persecution, violence, arrests, ethnic cleansing, rape, and death?
With a dormant public opinion , subjected to the propaganda of hacks serving a power colluding and complicit in the socialized and endlessly video-broadcast horror, like an eternal television series, a segment of society in this decadent and failing West, increasingly illiberal yet presumptuously democratic, is rising up in indignation, at least for those who still stubbornly believe in social justice. And then an unstoppable and powerful river invades the cities and towns, denouncing the genocide of the Palestinian people by the Israeli government, financed and armed primarily by the USA and Europe, which continues before everyone's eyes at low intensity despite the non-truce that relentlessly bombs, punishes, starves, sickens, and murders without mercy, without a shred of humanity. The book Stay Human by Vittorio Arrigoni remains more relevant than ever as a cry that is at times stifled, but which bursts forcefully in the streets around the world from activists, associations, and collectives: they do not stop in the face of repression and will not stop, despite censorship, bans, accusations, dismissals, beatings, and arrests. They resist and fight resolutely against imperialism and post-colonialism, even through hunger strikes that threaten to kill some activists in London jails.
PRO-PAL FOR THE GLOBAL JUSTICE tells, in part, through numerous interviews, the motivations, explanations, and intentions of a diverse and creative movement that existed long before October 7, 2023 (Operation Al-Aqsa) and which, reinvigorated for two years, has been trying to bring the mendacious mainstream narrative back into a meaningful and indispensable search for historical truth.
The documentary initially began as a musical production by G.A.Z.A. (Go Against Zionist Apartheid) in Berlin in 2019, then expanded with the addition of field recordings in Istanbul, and finally materialized as the idea of a documentary on the Palestinian question, not without in-depth and ongoing research into related issues such as anti-Semitism, Zionism, pinkwashing, and Palestinian resistance movements. Filming began in 2022 in Lebanon in the Palestinian refugee camps following the Italian Committee for Not Forgetting the Massacre of Sabra and Shatila, in Poland at the POLIN museum and the Auschwitz/Birkenau concentration camp, and continued in Rome and Berlin from 2024 to 2025.
The individual project G.A.Z.A. then became a collective thanks to the self-produced and voluntary work of a handful of videomakers/activists/musicians.
about the info-point
The Apartheid Free Zone (AFZ) campaign is one of several campaigns by the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, which is a Palestinian-led global movement for freedom, justice and equality. It creates an international network of progressive, intersectional spaces that are committed to refrain from providing any kind of support to Israel’s system of apartheid, occupation and genocide. The campaign welcomes a wide spectrum of organisations as potential AFZs, including commercial and local businesses, cultural venues, sport associations, religious centres, unions, political parties and social spaces. The AFZ campaign in the Netherlands, which is run by volunteers, is a collective response to years of impunity and Dutch complicity in Israeli crimes. BDS Netherlands recently announced the AFZ network in the country, which consists of more than 70 AFZs, with many more applications currently being processed. This growing network not only demonstrates increasing solidarity with Palestine within Dutch civil society but also fulfils a public need for transparency: It allows people of conscience to ensure that the spaces they participate in do not contribute to the maintenance of a genocidal apartheid regime nor benefit from human rights violations.
