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There will be NO information stall in the town centre Saturday 1 July, but we will have a stall at:
 St Leonards Festival 2023
Saturday 1 July 1 - 5.30pm
Warrior Square Gardens
Please come and say hello at our stall. The festival is always worth a visit. There will be non-stop entertainment including drummers, carnival, aerial performance, 'Africa Acrobats,' food stalls, craft stalls, and even more drummers!
Festival Facebook page. Festival website.
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Dates for your diary (more information to follow)
18 July. Palestinian Women Speak Out. Visit to Hastings with women from Jerusalem/Al-Quds, Nazareth and the West Bank.25 July. Welcome the Gaza Freedom Flotilla vessel. Ship to Gaza Facebook page.26 August. Swim With Gaza. Hastings beach. Website.9 September. Asa Winstanley, author of 'Weaponising Anti-Semitism: How the Israel Lobby Brought Down Jeremy Corbyn.' Publisher's website.15 September. Meeting with a delegation from the Shu'fat Refugee Camp in East Jerusalem/Al-Quds.
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Information stalls
Apart from this Saturday, our stalls are every Saturday 12.00 noon until 2 pm (weather permitting) in the town centre. Please pay us a visit. Apart from a range of leaflets, pamphlets and stickers, we have keffiyehs from Hirbawi in Hebron, a range of T-shirts and Palestinian flag umbrellas. We also have handicrafts from the Shu'fat Refugee Camp.
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Meeting with Professor David Miller
 Thanks to everyone who came to our meeting with Professor Miller. This was a truly illuminating and thought-provoking talk by someone who has spent his academic life investigating lobby groups and their power in many areas including education, environmental policies, health provision, the Israel lobby and Islamophobia.
He gave a lecture of entirely new research on the Zionist movement and showed why it matters to us. Included in the talk was a section whereby Professor Miller highlighted the myriad of charities in the UK that fund the illegal settlements, i.e. organisations given tax breaks to support what under international law constitute war crimes.
This is a long read, but it gives a good account of the talk. Highly recommended! Full report.
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 Sanctuary Festival
Thanks to everyone who came to Sunday's festival at the local museum. It was great to be part of such a friendly event, talking about Palestine (and lots of other things) for 6 hours.
We found a lot of interest in our forthcoming Swim With Gaza event - we're looking forward to large numbers of local people turning up in their swimming trunks on 26 August.
Thanks to Hastings Supports Refugees for such a well organised festival. And thanks to all our helpers who worked so hard in the heat.
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 Protect the right to boycott
If this bill becomes law, public bodies will no longer be able to make their own decisions when it comes to purchasing or procuring from, or investing in companies complicit in Israel's war crimes.
The second reading of the bill will be in the House of Commons on Monday (3 July).
This is a useful 'write to your MP' tool from the PSC:
WRITE TO YOUR MP
More information at the Protect the right to boycott website here.
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Gideon Levy: And Who Is Supposed to Protect the Palestinians?
In this article Gideon Levy writes "over three days last week, 35 pogroms have been carried out by settlers. Since the beginning of the year, around 160 Palestinians have been killed by soldiers..."
Have the Palestinians the right to defend themselves? "The invader is legitimate, and the one defending his life and property is a terrorist. The moral criteria are incomprehensible in their absurdity." Well worth a read: Article here.
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Continuing forcible displacement and dispossession of Palestinian Christians
"There are many who are surprised to learn that Palestine has always been - and still is - the home of a vibrant Christian community. Sadly, there is a real risk that the presence of a Christian community in Palestine will soon come to an end." Article here.
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Four Sentenced to Prison After Dismantling an American Weapons Factory in Wales
Sentences of 23 months and 27 months have been handed down to activists, two of whom dismantled military equipment from the inside the factory, whilst the others occupied the roof. Teledyne Labtech products are used for missiles supplying weapons companies such as Raytheon, BAE Systems and Leonardo. Article here.
Donations to Palestine Action can be sent here.
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The shocking truth behind the Baghdad bombings of 1950 and 1951
Avi Shlaim has uncovered proof that Zionist agents were responsible for targeting the Jewish community, forcing them to flee Iraq and settle in Israel. The article goes on to show that the Zionist movement and Israel have together intensified divisions between Arabs and Jews, Israelis and Palestinians, Hebrew and Arabic and Judaism and Islam. They have actively worked to erase an ancient heritage of "pluralism, religious tolerance, cosmopolitanism and coexistence."
Article here.
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Financial Times Calls on U.S., European Countries to Threaten Ban on West Bank Imports
When the UK corporate media starts talking about boycotts, it shows how serious the situation in the West Bank is getting: Article here.
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 More news:
Haaretz: Adam, Fuad, Abdullah, Omar: The 28 Palestinian Kids Killed by Israeli Forces This Year: Article here.
Palestinians pick up the pieces after settler pogrom in West Bank village: Article here.
Palestinian Authority reports 310 attacks by Israeli settlers in West Bank: Article here.
Standing Orders for a Pogrom Against Palestinians: Article here.
Settlers Burn Palestinian School, Try to Torch a Mosque: Article here.
Zionist militia's efforts to recruit Nazis against Britain revealed by Israel's archives: Article here.
If You Thought Israel's Golan Was Quiet; Listen to the Druze: Article here.
How Israel greenwashes its colonisation of the Golan Heights: Article here.
How the IHRA definition of antisemitism is chilling Palestine advocacy in Europe: Article here.
Gaza's hidden heritage: Five historic sites in the besieged Palestinian territory: Article here.
ABA Endorses the Resolution to Boycott Israeli Academic Institutions: Article here.
Between Palestinian succession and Hamas, Fatah crisis deepens in West Bank: Article here.
Israel's Pride pinkwashing can't mask its occupation of Palestine: Article here.
Zionist Myths: Israeli Invention of National Symbols: Article here.
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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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