Israel's recent bombing campaign of Gaza killed 32 Palestinians including children aged between 15 months and 13 years. Statement from DCIP (Defense for Children International - Palestine): "As long as the international community fails to hold Israel accountable for ongoing and repeated war crimes, we can only expect to continue seeing children's lifeless bodies being pulled from the rubble of their homes."
DCIP article here.Useful interview about Israel's bombing campaign with Ali Abuminah, co-founder of The Electronic Intifada:
Video: Israel's relentless violence on Gaza met by global silence.
Article by Israeli journalist Gideon Levy (Some Haaretz articles are behind a paywall; this is the 'print' version):
No one in Israel knew they were committing a massacre, and they didn't care.The Great March of Return in Gaza
Since 2018 Israel has killed 222 Gaza protestors. Only one soldier has been indicted.
Article here.
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"It has been a week of appalling abuses committed by Israeli soldiers"'
Jonathan Cook writes about "Israel's long-running belligerent occupation" which includes the video that has been shared widely of the Israeli policewoman shooting a Palestinian man in the back with a sponge-tipped bullet.
Israel is Silencing the Last Voices Trying to Stop Abuses Against Palestinians.
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UK Universities invest over £450 million in companies complicit in Israeli war crimes.
PSC research has found that UK Universities invest over £450 million in companies complicit in Israeli war crimes, including through supplying weapons and technology to the Israeli army. This database of all 151 UK universities investments:
University Complicity Database.British universities invest in Israeli apartheid.
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Saturday information stalls - in Hastings and Rye.
Hastings
Our weekly information stalls are in the Hastings town centre outside Debenhams.
Saturday 12.00 - 14.00 (weather permitting).
Rye
We run stalls on the cobbles at the top of Conduit Hill, where it meets the High Street. 11 - 1 pm. For information about our next stall (or for anyone in the Rye area who wants to help out), please
email.Please come along to either (or both!) of our stalls to say hello and support us: any amount of time is appreciated.
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Hastings and Rye PSC online membership and donations
Becoming a member of Hastings and Rye PSC is an important way of supporting our work.The annual subscription is £10 waged, £5 unwaged. We now have an
online membership payment form. It can also be used to renew membership. The work of Hastings & Rye Palestine Solidarity could not continue without the generous donations from members of the public. If you would like to support our work without becoming a member please visit our shop page here and see the right hand column:
Donate to Hastings & Rye PSC.
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Protesters against Israeli drone giant Elbit facing trial
Elbit's subsidiary Instro has a factory in Kent which was closed down for 2 days earlier in the year.
Article here. This is the crowd-funder to cover the activists' legal costs:
Solidarity for the Elbit-Instro 7! All Israeli armament factories on our doorstep need to be opposed. Hastings PSC members and supporters have been involved in the closing down of the Kent Instro factory in the past.
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UK government stops councils investing ethically
On November 20th the PSC challenged the UK Government again in an attempt to overthrow the ruling that stops Local Government Pension Schemes from divesting from companies complicit in Israel's abuses of the rights of Palestinians. The PSC has a fighting find to to cover court costs. Here Maxine Peake explains:
Video: Donate to PSC's 2019 Fighting Fund - Maxine Peake. Video: Alexei Sayle.
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BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) news
Norway's capital says it won't buy israeli settlement goods.
Apartheid Free Zone Campaign in Italy Has Grown by 50 Percent Since Launch in June.
The Episcopal Church will sell stock in companies profiting from the occupation.
Methodist Church of Southern Africa joins BDS.EU must ban all business with settlements, instead of merely labeling settlement products.
Maritime Union of Australia - Sydney Branch Endorses Boycott HP Campaign.
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News from and about the occupation
Israeli military opens fire at farmers in Gaza.
Israeli government to fund anti-BDS videos.
New York Times: WhatsApp says israeli firm used its app in spy program.
Israeli forces kill another young Palestinian man 'for no reason' in Hebron refugee camp.
Grandson of Holocaust survivors deported from Israel for volunteering.
A new booklet by Breaking the Silence compiles dozens of accounts by former Israeli soldiers:
In the Hebron Hills, the settlers are the lords and the IDF does their bidding.
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