Abdul Mun’im Ramahi (also known as Abu Maxim), has passed away after battling cancer for the past five years. A long-time Palestine activist and leftist since his early youth, he will be sorely missed among the Palestinian community in Melbourne.
I spoke with his eldest daughter, Olga, about his life. Abu Maxim was born in 1940 in a village called al-Muzeir’a, near Jaffa, which is close to present day Tel Aviv. She explained that he might have been a bit older and that his birth date is just an estimate – all of his family’s basic documents were lost when their home was destroyed during the Zionists’ attacks on his village and the neighbouring towns during the Nakba and the establishment of Israel in 1948.
Read the obituary at Red Flag.