Her Story: A History of Palestine and Cymru
The Pot
3 Griffin Street
Newport NP20 1GL
Monday, June 22 • 7 PM – 9 PM
Discussion Panel with Our Women Visitors from Palestine and Local Historians on Histories of Palestine and Cymru.
Her Story: A History of Palestine and Cymru An Evening of Stories, History and Solidarity
Monday 22 June | 7pm–9pm The Pot Café, 3 Griffin Street, Newport NP20 1GL Free entry. All welcome.
Yma o Hyd. We are still here.
Wales has its own word for it. Palestinians have lived it for generations. Two nations, separated by thousands of miles, united by a centuries-old refusal to be erased.
The Welsh have survived conquest, cultural suppression, and the slow violence of empire — and kept their language, their identity, and their spirit alive. Palestinians have faced occupation, dispossession, and genocide — and are still here, still organising, still singing, still telling their story.
This is not a coincidence. It is a shared inheritance.
A History More Entangled Than You Think
Long before the modern conflict, a Welsh minister proposed establishing a Welsh colony in Palestine. Welsh soldiers captured Jerusalem in 1917. Welsh Prime Minister David Lloyd George was the key architect of the Balfour Declaration — the document that set in motion the dispossession of the Palestinian people. Welsh place names echo with biblical Palestine, woven into our landscapes, our language, and our faith.
But Wales also has a proud tradition of resistance — from the Chartists who marched through Newport’s streets demanding justice, to the women of Greenham Common who stood against military power. That same spirit of solidarity has drawn Wales and Palestine together for decades.
About the Evening
Join us for a compelling panel discussion bringing together Palestinian women visitors from the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem alongside Welsh historians and community voices — exploring the deep, often untold connections between two nations who know what it means to fight for survival.
The evening will explore:
- How Wales and Palestine share thousands of years of resilience against occupation and empire
- Wales’ complicated role in the Balfour Declaration and the British Mandate
- The extraordinary 19th century proposal to establish a Welsh colony in Palestine
- From the Chartists to Greenham Common — Wales’ own history of resistance and what it teaches us about solidarity
- What Yma o Hyd means to a Palestinian woman living under occupation today
This is not just a history lesson. It is a conversation about land, language, survival, and what two nations can learn from each other’s struggle.
Part of the Palestinian Women’s Visit to Newport, 22–23 June. Organised by Newport PSC in collaboration with The Pot Café and CADFA.
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