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Protest Israel’s violence against unarmed Palestinians in Gaza

April 6, 2018

Today (April 5) Palestinians prepare for a second Friday of mass demonstrations in what Palestinians are calling the “Great March of Return”. 

A total of 22 Palestinians have died on Gaza’s border since the protests were launched – 17 were shot by Israeli soldiers on Friday, two others killed in shelling, and two more have died since last Friday, including one killed in an air strike early on Thursday. Many hundreds have been shot and seriously injured.

The UK government remains silent, refusing to condemn Israel’s aggression. Once again, Israel massacres Palestinians with impunity.

The Israeli defence minister, Avigdor Lieberman, said on Thursday that “open-fire rules for the Gaza border will remain unchanged”.

“If there are provocations, there will be a reaction of the harshest kind like last week,” Lieberman, a Moldovan-born Israeli, told public radio.

Organisers of the protests have set up a tent city with media posts, portable toilets, electricity and water supplies, and shaded areas for crowds in five locations near the border fence that separates Israel from the Gaza Strip.

Protests are planned on Saturday (April 6th) in London and in Brighton. Click here for details of the London protests. In Brighton, we’ll be at the Clock Tower from 12-2pm to raise awareness about the crisis, and to call on local people to write to the Foreign Office to demand action by the UK government.

Join us in writing to the Foreign Office, and demand action is taken to hold Israel accountable for its actions!

Have your voice heard and get the Government to take action.

Filed Under: Local News & Reports, News & Reports from Palestine

False rumours of ‘pro-Palestine protest’ trigger security alert at Hove Town Hall

December 14, 2017

The Argus ran a story this afternoon about a security crisis at Hove Town Hall. The Argus reported that the City Council and local police were concerned about the threat posed by ‘a planned pro-Palestine protest’ to the lighting of the Chanukah Menorah – so concerned in fact that the ceremony had to be held ‘behind closed doors’. 

The Argus also reported that ‘two sources close to the city’s pro-Palestinian movement told The Argus no demonstration was ever planned’. In later online updates the Argus reported that ‘there was no demonstration’.

Brighton & Hove Palestine Solidarity Campaign wishes to state clearly that no such protest was ever planned by local campaigners for Palestinian rights. Religious ceremonies would never be targeted by pro-Palestine groups. BHPSC is naturally sorry to learn that concerns over security disrupted the Menorah-lighting ceremony. 

Questions must be asked about the source of this unfounded rumour, as they appear to be using religious sensitivities to discredit legitimate political protest. The Argus judged that the security alert was newsworthy: what was newsworthy was that rumours about a non-existent protest were spread in order to create a security crisis. The important questions for the press to ask are: who spread them? and why?

Filed Under: Local News & Reports

Another successful protest at HSBC Bank: “Stop Banking on Apartheid!”

October 3, 2017

Saturday 30 September 2017

Once again, dozens of local people protested today at the main Brighton branch of HSBC Bank, angry over the bank’s complicity in the deadly two-way arms trade between the UK and Israel.

 

 

The protest was part of the UK-wide STOP ARMING ISRAEL campaign. The campaign is co-ordinated by a coalition of human rights organisations, including Palestine Solidarity Campaign, War on Want, Campaign Against Arms Trade, the Boycott Israel Network and the Palestinian BDS National Committee. 

Hundreds of leaflets were distributed to the public, and scores of people signed our petition demanding that HSBC immediately cease its business dealings with Israel’s deadly arms trade.

Many HSBC customers were shocked and angry to discover that their bank helps to fund the UK arms trade with Israel, and made a commitment to demand that the bank divest from this deadly business. They were especially concerned to learn that HSBC’s business with BAE Systems, Raytheon, Caterpillar and United Technologies actually contravenes their own Defence Equipment Sector Policy, as well as the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights.

Any HSBC customers wishing to protest to their branch managers are welcome to use our template letter as a basis for their own.

Further protests are planned.

Filed Under: Local News & Reports

We say: Don’t support Pretenders gig in Brighton on October 10th till they cancel their Tel Aviv gig

July 31, 2017

Rock legends The Pretenders are scheduled to perform in Tel Aviv on September 23rd. They are also due to play in Brighton on the 10th of October.

Chrissie Hynde and her band are being urged by people of conscience all over the world to to cancel their Tel Aviv gig, and by doing so to support the Palestinian call for a cultural boycott of Israel. 

Israel overtly uses culture as a form of propaganda to whitewash or justify its regime of occupation, settler-colonialism and apartheid over the Palestinian people. You can find out more about the worldwide cultural boycott here and here.

The Pretenders are also due to perform in Brighton on Tuesday October 10th. We urge all local supporters of the Palestinian struggle for justice to ignore the Pretenders when they come to Brighton unless and until they heed the call from civil society in Palestine and cancel their Tel Aviv gig.

Don’t buy tickets for The Pretenders’ October 10th gig in Brighton, and tell your friends to do the same. And make your feelings known about The Pretenders’ support for israeli apartheid by tweeting @ThePretendersHQ and via Facebook at facebook.com/pretenders. 

 

Filed Under: Local News & Reports

Copies of Iyad Burnat’s book ‘Bil’in and The Nonviolent Resistance’ for sale

June 13, 2017

Iyad Burnat leads Bilin’s non-violent struggle in the occupied West Bank. He is the head of the Bil’in Popular Committee against the Wall, and has led non-violent weekly demonstrations since 2005 against the Israeli West Bank barriers. Iyad is also head of Friends of Freedom and Justice in Bil’in, a pro-Palestinian organisation with the stated aims of building a “wide network of people from all over the globe who support Freedom and Justice for all”.

Iyad gave an inspiring keynote talk at our 2017 Annual General Meeting in April.

We have copies of his book for sale at £10 each. If you’d like to purchase copies, please contact us using the ‘Contact Us’ link at the foot of this page.

Filed Under: Local News & Reports

Support Sussex Students’ ‘Divest for Palestine’ Campaign

March 30, 2017

After a great Israeli Apartheid Week, the Sussex Friends of Palestine group is going in to an important stage of its campaign to pressure the university to divest from companies that profit from Israel’s oppression of Palestinians. 

Israel is occupying and colonising Palestinian land, discriminating against Palestinian citizens of Israel and denying Palestinian refugees the right to return to their homes. 

On Tuesday, we’ll be handing in an open letter to the university asking for the university to commit to not investing any of its money in companies like HP and Caterpillar that profit Israel’s oppression of Palestinians. 

It’d be great if you could help out and get involved by doing the following: 

1. Make sure you’ve signed the open letter

We’d like as many people as possible to sign the open letter before we hand it in. If you haven’t signed it already, please sign our open letter now.

2. Ask your friends to sign the open letter

Please share the open letter on social media. The link to share is: https://sussexdivestforpalestine.tumblr.com/letter. 

3. Come to our open letter hand in action on Tuesday

On this day we will be delivering our open letter to university management and showing that all of us, students, alumni, academics and university staff are united in calling for divestment for Palestine. We’ll be meeting from 11am at Library Square. More info here: https://www.facebook.com/events/194931787664534/

Please get involved if you can, thanks so much! 

Sussex Friends of Palestine

Filed Under: Local News & Reports

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