Hastings and Rye Palestine Solidarity Campaign
Newsletter   4 June 2021
 
Reminder: Saturday's collection for Books for Gaza

Saturday 5 June 12 until 2
Hastings Town Centre near Debenhams


The Books for Gaza collection is to replenish the books destroyed when the Israeli military bombed the Samir Mansour bookshop which housed the largest collection of English literature in Gaza.

Please donate both new and good quality second-hand books, of all genres, fiction and non-fiction for adults and children. Both in English and Arabic.
Books For Gaza Instagram page.
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Parliament debate: STOP ARMING ISRAEL

On June 14th Parliament will debate ending the UK-Israel arms trade, and also implementing broader sanctions against Israel. Help hold Israel accountable and end UK complicity in human rights abuses against Palestinians by writing to your MP using this form: Stop Arming Israel.
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Rise Up For Palestine

Article in the Hastings Independent about the recent demonstration in support of Palestine:
Hastings Rises Up For Palestine.
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Palestine in Pictures: May 2021

Summing up of recent events throughout Palestine from the Electronic Intifada. Palestine in Pictures.

Left: Mahmoud Sabih celebrates his 13th birthday with family and friends by the ruins of his Gaza City home that collapsed after an Israeli airstrike, 25 May. Right: Palestinians stand amidst the ruins of a neighborhood in Beit Hanoun, northern Gaza, destroyed by Israeli bombing, 21 May.

  
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Ramzy Baroud: the big question remains - what next?

Ramzy writes about the significance of Palestinian resistance and global solidarity. How Palestinian Resistance Altered the Equation.
Here Ramzy shows how the culture of the Oslo Accords is on its way out - replaced by a culture shown by the popular uprising that has finally unified Palestinian youth across all of historic Palestine. Palestinians are defeating the Oslo culture typified by bumbling Abbas.
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Israel asks for another $1 billion in military aid

Not content with the annual $3.8 billion it already receives from the US in military aid, Israel wants another $1 billion. Israel will request $1bn in additional American aid.
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Gaza resistance: beginning of the end for apartheid Israel?

Interview with journalist Laith Marouf. Information about the Israeli mass arrests of Palestinians in Israel. Laith gives details of the armed resistance in Gaza and the role that Syria plays in the resistance. Video: beginning of the end for apartheid Israel?
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Hastings and Rye PSC - we're now on Instagram

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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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28 May 2021
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