Supporting ICAHD in the Methodist Church

Posted September 14, 2016, by & filed under Culture, Personal Experiences, Study Tour Reports, UK Specific.

Jeff Halper at Melbourne Terrace

– As partners of the Kairos Britain initiative, we wanted to highlight this years’ World Week for Peace in Palestine and Israel (18th – 24th September 2016) by encouraging our members in the Christian faith communities to share their experiences with you. Stephen reflects on how the work of ICAHD has informed the Methodist support for Palestine… … Read more »

Palestine featured again at this years’ Greenbelt festival

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Deborah at Greenbelt

  – As partners of the Kairos Britain initiative, we wanted to highlight this years’ World Week for Peace in Palestine and Israel (18th – 24th September 2016) by encouraging our members in Christian faith communities to share their experiences with you. Deborah shares her experience of Greenbelt festival this year an how it continues to highlight… Read more »

ICAHD UK Represented at the EuroPal Forum’s Parliamentary Meeting

Posted August 3, 2016, by & filed under Events, UK Specific, UK Specific.

Kate and Haneen Al Zoubi

EuroPal Forum hosted an event in July entitled, ‘Palestine: Key for Stability and Peace in the Middle East’ at the Houses of Parliament, London. The talk was introduced and chaired by Dr Paul Monaghan MP (SNP), who presaged the evening’s speeches by emphasising the central role of the Palestinian issue in stabilising the MENA region. His introduction… Read more »

Anti-fascist footprints – ICAHD UK sponsored walk

Posted July 31, 2016, by & filed under Events, Sponsored Walk, UK Specific, UK Specific.

David Rosenberg tour

October will mark the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street and so we have joined up again with author David Rosenberg for a special ‘Anti-Fascist Footprints’ tour telling the story of communities coming together to oppose those who tried to set them against each other. This topic seems particularly relevant in light of the recent anti-Semitism debate and… Read more »

ICAHD UK Hiring new Administrator

Posted July 25, 2016, by & filed under UK Specific.

icahd

ICAHD UK seeks administrator and membership manager with experience in using effective and efficient office systems and processes including Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint and proficient in using email and the Internet. An average of 60 hours per month working from home located within the London travel to work area with office and travel expenses covered…. Read more »

ICAHD UK’s response to the Shami Chakrabarti inquiry

Posted July 21, 2016, by & filed under ICAHD reports, UK Specific.

Chakrabarti Inquiry

The Shami Chakrabarti enquiry was a formal investigation into allegations of anti-Semitism in the Labour party, instigated by Leader of the Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn, in April 2016. ICAHD UK, as a long-standing critical Israeli-founded human rights NGO with Jewish roots, felt it important to add our voice to the submissions. Our main suggestions are summarised in the… Read more »

The Labour Party, Israel, and Antisemitism

Posted May 13, 2016, by & filed under Opinion, UK Specific.

A photo of a street sign in front of the apartheid wall taken in Bethlehem

– Picture of a street sign in front of the apartheid wall in Bethlehem. Last week the labour Party came under ferocious political and media attack for allegedly harbouring antisemites in its midst. In the course of this, the accusers often blurred the distinction between anti-Zionism and antisemitism, between legitimate criticisms of the state of… Read more »