From 5-12 February, Helen Macdonald conducted a five-day workshop for staff of the PCC. Building on David Raine’s earlier workshop and Mohammad Mukhaimar’s weekly Skype sessions, the programme is having an impact and this will be consolidated when Harry Ari O’Hayon visits in April.    Helen is a Fellow of the British Association

Keswick Peace and Human Rights Group invited Mohammed Mukhaimar to introduce ‘5 Broken Cameras’ as part of the KPHRG’s contribution to the Keswick Film Festival.   About 60 people gathered at the Keswick Theatre on a Sunday morning and notwithstanding the time of day the film made its usual impact. The film always generates

The upstairs meeting room of the Cherry Tree was crowded for a screening of The Gatekeepers last Wednesday.   Six formers heads of Shin Beit, Israel’s security service reminisced about their careers fighting terrorism and organising assassinations while reflecting that while collective punishment and administrative detention of Palestinians may “win

Quoting Archbishop Desmond Tutu: “It is breath-taking how the Israeli government can thumb their noses at the international community with impunity. This is another aspect that mirrors what happened with apartheid South Africa. The International Court of Justice gave an advisory opinion declaring South Africa’s continued control of South West

A meeting with the Betley Women’s Institute on a wet and windy evening in February. Not an evening likely to bring forth a large audience but this did not deter members of the Betley W I who proved to be a challenging audience. I thought I had got my script

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