The Chantry Group, meeting at the Royal Foundation of St Katherine in Limehouse, London offered me an opportunity to speak about Palestine.   I’ve seldom worked harder to prepare as I was to share the morning with a speaker from the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions who had just returned

The second national conference took place at the Amnesty International HQ in London with a starry cast! Following the Palestinian ambassador, Professor Manuel Hassassian, Professor Jane Lindsay, Professor of Social Work Practice at Kingston University, offered an overview of the emergence of social work in Palestine and the challenges of

On Wednesday 27th November (from 2pm-6pm) hundreds of supporters will gather together in Parliament to call on MPs to take action for Palestinian human rights and against ethnic cleansing and racism. Unable to see her MP,  Karen Bradley, Cina Zacune recently returned from olive picking in the West Bank, has

Tony Pearce gathered together an audience for “5 Broken Cameras” at Trinity Church in the centre of Stafford. As always the film made a considerable impact which we expect to follow up. Martin Lynch from the Walsall Kobar Friendship Association attended and reminded us (if we needed reminding!) that while

To mark the signing of the Balfour Declaration on 9 November 1917, the beginning of the dispossession of the Palestinian people of their land and their homes. Join us for a 5 mile walk beginning and ending at the Student’s Union at Keele University ST5 5BG Saturday, 9 November at

Sumud’s screening of “5 Broken Cameras” at the Foxlowe Arts Centre on in Leek on was a considerable success. The event was orchestrated by Peter Kent-Baguley and the Major of Leek, John Fisher, attended. John is preparing an article for Spark, a local newspaper and plans to screen the film

5 Broken Cameras is an account of weekly protests at Bil’in, a West Bank village divided by the Israeli Separation Wall. Shot almost entirely by Palestinian farmer, Emad Burnat, who bought his first camera in 2005 to record the birth of his youngest son, and edited by Israeli co-director, Guy

Gaza: The Reality An Evening With Harry Fear Wednesday 19th June 7.15pm prompt start. Borough Arms Hotel,  26 King Street, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire ST5 1HX. Tickets: £5 – all proceeds go to Mercy Worldwide Trust To avoid disappointment tickets are available online at http://gazathereality.evenbrite.co.uk, or some may be available on the day.  For further

There will be an open garden on Sunday 23rd June 2013 as a fundraiser for Samud Palestine. The garden will open 1 – 5pm at Westbrook Farm, Morridge, Onecote ST13 7SQ (it is midway between Leek and Onecote).   Refreshments will be available so any donations of cakes would be

  A candle burned in solidarity as supporters of Sumud Palestine commemorated 65 years of the Nakba in readings of poetry and historical accounts of the Deir Yassin massacre.  The film ‘The Great Book Robbery’ told how families fleeing were forced to leave behind thousands of cherished books. Some disappeared