Walsall Kobar Friendship Association presented this year’s Salaam Festival at the New Art Gallery. This was a celebration of Palestinian culture and of the people’s resolve to remain on their land in the face of Israel’s determination to be rid of them. Sumud Palestine has been warmed and encouraged by
Olive Picking in the West Bank Pat Mood,myself and another local woman, Marion Flynn, together with Sue Monk from Maidstone who I met at the Palestinian Lobby of Parliament last year, travelled to the West Bank to be part of a group of ‘internationals’ picking olives as an expression of