We were delighted that Jeff Halper, Director of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions in Jerusalem, was able to pay two visits to England within four weeks and we are pleased to pass on news regarding some of the highlights from his trips. Greenbelt Festival n August Bank Holiday Weekend, Cheltenham. Jeffis participation in the… Read more »
UK Specific
Lurking on Radio 3 Proms Coverage, A Testament to the Possibilities of Arab-Israeli Co-existence
This week the BBC Proms 2009 season has featured two concerts by the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, founded ten years ago by Jewish Daniel Barenboim and Edward Said, the Palestinian intellectual and writer, now sadly deceased. The members of the orchestra comprise of Jews and Arabs, all consummate musicians, and has gained a reputation, under the… Read more »
Unanimous vote at Methodist Conference commends ICAHD’s “practical and prophetic work”…
….and encourages all Methodists to find out more about its work. Stephen Leah, who proposed the Notice of Motion at the Conference supporting ICAHD’s work, then put on his running shoes to run the inaugural York 10K to raise funds for ICAHD. Stephen reports below. One of the most effective ways in which we can… Read more »
ICAHD UK Lobbies EU in Brussels
Monica Wusteman reports: ICAHD UK responded to the call that came from Palestinians in East Jerusalem to campaign against the threatened house demolitions and evictions there by taking their case to the EU in Brussels. On Monday, 6th and Tuesday 7th July, a delegation from ICAHD UK led by UK Director, Linda Ramsden, met several… Read more »
A Trojan Horse Approach to Win Over the Uninterested to the Reality of the Conflict
I donit think we usually recommend thrillers on this site and I donit usually read them, but I recently had a reason to read Paul Sussmanis The Last Secret of the Temple. Amazingly, because I had little idea of the subject before I started it, I found myself involved in a fictional account of the… Read more »
Report on ICAHD UK AGM Day Conference
Below is a report compiled by board member Deborah Maccoby on a very successful day, for which feedback suggests that much was learned by many people on aspects of the Palestine/Israel situation and on effective campaigning for a just settlement. Highlights were the talks by Jean Lambert MEP on the European Parliament scene with regard… Read more »
To Resist is to Exist – the psychological impact of military occupation in Palestine
An article has appeared on the Therapy Today website written by participants of a ten-day Clinicians’ Tour to Palestine last year. The article received complaints, was temporarily withdrawn by the website’s Editor, but then reinstated with some of the responses to it published at the end. The tour was coordinated with Physicians for Human Rights… Read more »
The Lancet Publishes Articles on Health in Palestine
The latest issue of this UK medical journal, one of the highest profile journals in the world, has taken a courageous step in the publication of this series, available on its website now at www.thelancet.com. Dr Derek Summerfield, on behalf of UK Medical Committee on Palestine, writes: There are 5 papers accompanied by editorials and… Read more »
60 YEARS – WE WISH EVERYONE COULD CELEBRATE
Independent Jewish Voices (www.ijv.org.uk) are placing this advertisement in the Jewish Chronicle in the UK on May 9, 2008: 60 YEARS – WE WISH EVERYONE COULD CELEBRATE It is 60 years since the creation of the state of Israel, celebrated by most Israelis and many Jews around the world. But which Israel is being commemorated?… Read more »
Palestinian Wins Orwell Prize for Political Writing
Palestinian lawyer Raja Shehadeh has combined art and politics, his love of walking with his political activism and human rights, to produce a lyrical account of the changed and still changing West Bank countryside, and its effects on the lives of the Palestinian population, since Ariel Sharon declared in 1980 that he would “alter the… Read more »