19 June 2013
Dear Members First the astonishing news that Baroness Neuberger and Lord Carlile, who were due to hold a meeting with MP David Ward, in order to ‘re-educate’ him in ‘sensitivity and language training’ apparently no longer wish to do so. No explanation has been given…. Meanwhile David continues to ask the important questions in Parliament: [...]
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19 June 2013
Like many of his predecessors, Secretary of State John Kerry is currently working tirelessly in an effort to restart a peace process between Israelis and Palestinians. In recent weeks and months, he has traveled frequently to the region, meeting regularly with leaders. However, also like his predecessors, he too will fail to achieve anything without [...]
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31 May 2013
Dear Members, Mahmoud Sarsak, the Gazan footballer who was released from an Israeli jail after 6 months on hunger strike, finally made it to the UK last week. On Friday he joined activists and comedian Alexei Sayle in the pouring rain outside the Grosvenor Hotel, Park Lane, where the UEFA Congress was taking place, there [...]
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31 May 2013
The stage setting was as good as it gets; they hardly come bigger. US Secretary of State John Kerry chose the backdrop of the Davos conference of the World Economic Forum for the Middle East and North Africa to unveil his economic plan for Palestinian recovery. Clearly choreographed to impress public opinion he announced a [...]
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31 May 2013
Protest at G4S Shareholders Annual General Meeting Thursday June 6th 2013 from 1pm, Salters’ Hall, 4 Fore Street, London, EC2Y 5DE http://stopg4s.net/action-alerts The last twelve months have seen G4S voted third ‘Worst Company of the Year’ in the global Public Eye awards, they also face a UKparliamentary inquiry into their disastrous handling of [...]
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22 May 2013
The file in the state archives contains clear evidence that the researchers at the time did not paint the full picture of Israel’s role in creating the Palestinian refugee problem. The Israeli censor’s observant eye had missed file number GL-18/17028 in the State Archives. Most files relating to the 1948 Palestinian exodus remain sealed [...]
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22 May 2013
Dear Members We are planning an LDFP summer party: a buffet supper at the Maramia cafe in Notting Hill, a family- run Palestinian restaurant, whose patron still has a house in Gaza City. http://maramia.com/topublish/index.aspx Date: Tuesday 25 June, Time: 7 pm We have not yet negotiated a price (but no more than £20 quid a [...]
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18 May 2013
Events: May 2013 (Greater London Area) Saturday 18th May – End the Nakba: 65 Years is Enough – Protest led by Palestine Solidarity Campaign – Old Palace Yard (Opposite Houses of Parliament), 11am-1pm Thursday 23rd May – Professor Ephraim Kleiman on ‘Palestinian-Israeli Economic Relations: Repudiating the Paris Protocol?’ – LSE, Wolfson Theatre, [...]
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15 May 2013
As announced by the British Committee for the Universities of Palestine (BRICUP) and subsequently covered by The Guardian, Reuters and others, world-renowned theoretical physicist and cosmologist Professor Stephen Hawking has decided to heed the Palestinian call for boycott, and pull out of an Israeli conference hosted by President Shimon [...]
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08 May 2013
End Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Palestinians End the ongoing Nakba – Palestine’s catastrophe – 65 years on There will Saturday 18th May against the ethnic cleaning of Palestinians through Israeli policy. Saturday 18 May 11am to 1pm Old Palace Yard (Opposite Parliament/House of Lords), SW1P 3JY, London Do you want to join the protest? Architects [...]
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