By email – Key contacts are Chair of Trustees – neil.berkett@nspcc.org.uk Chief Executive – peter.wanless@nspcc.org.uk Director of Fundraising and Engagement – josephine.swinhoe@nspcc.org.uk By post – Addressed to one or more of the above, ℅ NSPCC Head Office, Weston House, 42 Curtain Road, London EC2A 3NH You can also email help@NSPCC.org.uk with the person to whom it is… Read more »
ICAHD UK is supporting a campaign initiative taken by Protecting Palestinian Families, an offshoot of Corporate Occupation/Stop the Demolitions. We request the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) stop taking money from JCB, the British company that manufactures industrial and agricultural machinery. The NSPCC, a major charity that campaigns and works… Read more »
Photo: Roy Milani – Aida Refugee Camp, Bethlehem Today, there are over 7.3 million Palestinian refugees and half a million Internationally Displaced Persons (IDPs). Palestinians are the largest and longest standing displaced population in the world. Due to Israeli government policies Palestinians continue to be displaced from their homes, therefore the Nakba continues. INSIST that… Read more »
Photo: ICAHD – Clare Short at ICAHD UK Conference Former Labour politician, Clare Short has worked internationally with non-governmental advocacy groups across the developing world and has had long-standing interest in Palestine/Israel. She will be conversation with Awad Abdelfattah from the Galilee and Jeff Halper from Jerusalem. Awad is a political writer and former… Read more »
Below is a Call from the One Democratic State Campaign (ODSC) — a Palestinian-led organization in Palestine — for the establishment of a single democratic state of equal rights for all its citizens (including Palestinian refugees and their family who choose to come home). It notes that a single state already exists de facto between… Read more »
Preamble In recent years, the idea of a one democratic state in all of historic Palestine as the best solution to the conflict has re-emerged. It started gaining increased support in the public domain. It is not a new idea. The Palestinian liberation movement, before the catastrophe of 1948 (the Nakba) and after it, had adopted… Read more »
Photo credit: Amer Aruri, B’tselem Notes: There are four categories of demolitions: Punitive demolitions: Houses demolished as punishment for the actions of people associated with the houses. Administrative demolitions: Houses demolished for lack of a building permit. This happens in Area C and in East Jerusalem, under exclusive Israeli authority, though prior to the existence… Read more »
By Jeff Halper, ICAHD Director (13 August 2015) In two weeks this summer, between July 19-August 3rd, the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD) built a beautiful, four-room home for the Fhadat family of the West Bank town of Anata, complete with a stone fence and garden! Much of the funding for the home… Read more »
Diana, you were born in Canada. What identity did you grow up with? As the daughter of immigrant parents, I knew – and was made acutely aware – that I was not white; that I was from a different place, but that I was born in Canada. In Canada, there is a lot of veiled… Read more »
Write to your MP about Israel’s plans to annex parts of the West Bank, including the Jordan Valley, and the major Israeli illegal settlements, on 1st July. Dear (MP), I am writing because of my commitment to social justice where everyone, despite their race, gender or creed, can live in freedom, with dignity, and where… Read more »