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Hastings and District Palestine Solidarity Campaign
Newsletter 9 August 2024
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In this newsletter:
Saturday 10 August 12 noon - Information Stall
Saturday 10 August 12 noon - Unity Rally - No To Islamophobia
Saturday 24 August - Swim With Gaza
Sunday 25 August - Hastings Pride
Tuesday 27 August 9 am - Rally at the Trial of the #HASTINGS3
Tuesday 27 August 7 pm - Gig For Gaza
Plus....reports from our recent activities, local news and books for sale........
Tomorrow there are two events running alongside to support:
SATURDAY'S INFORMATION STALL
Saturday 10 August 12.00 noon until 2pm Town Centre. Please visit and support our soldarity stall. All the usual information, petitions, plus keffiyehs, books, badges and boycott stickers.
UNITY RALLY - NO TO ISLAMOPHOBIA
Saturday 10 August 12 Noon. Outside Owens, Robertson Street. Speakers from the local community including the PSC. Facebook post.. Instragram post..
SWIM WITH GAZA
SATURDAY 24 AUGUST 3 PM
The Harbour Arm, Hastings. Join us for this year's solidarity swim with Gaza. Show the people of Gaza that they are not alone - that we are with them in mind, heart, spirit and in the sea! Last year we joined with swimmers from over 40 global locations. So far this year, groups have signed up from Malaysia, Italy, Dublin, Orlando (Florida), Salt Lake City, Nablus and towns along the UK south coast. We're working with several local groups including Parentsforfuture-Hastings, so we're planning a range of family-friendly activities for the day.
Please share our Facebook event page. Swim With Gaza website.
Sunday 25 August 12 11.00 .The Stade - Hastings Old Town. We plan to have a contingent at this year's parade. Please join us. More details to follow. Hastings Pride website.
RALLY AT THE TRIAL OF THE #HASTINGS3
Tuesday 27 August 9.00 Hastings Magistrates' Court The #Hastings3 were arrested during a peaceful protest of the General Dynamics arms factory in February when a coalition of community groups came together to highlight the ongoing complicity of the company in Israel's genocide in Gaza.
The #Hastings3 are not guilty - Genocide Dynamics is guilty. All three will plead not guilty to the charge of aggravated trespass when they come before magistrates.
Join us - bring your voices, your banners, placards, friends, family and energy to raise an almighty howl against this outrageous injustice. Please share our Facebook event page.
Tuesday 27 August. Doors open 7 pm. The Pig, 37 White Rock Hastings TN34 1JL.
On the day our comrades the #Hastings3 go on trial for their part in a peaceful demonstration at Genocide Dynamics, we are raising funds for our friends in Gaza suffering this horrific genocide, and for the legal fees of the #Hastings3. Sliding scale pricing: £5 - £15. Pay on the door or pay through Eventbrite.
REPORT: PROTEST AT GENERAL DYNAMICS
Article in the Hastings Online Times about our most recent protest with background information about the UK arms trade with Israel and a list of some of the weapons that General Dynamics supplies to Israel: 'Local campaigners blockade arms factory again, ahead of trial.' Article here.
BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) Tour. Saturday 14 September. Details to follow. Previous tours: Hastings town centre and Ravenside.
Meeting with Ghada Karmi. 21 September. Our previous online meeting with Ghada Karmi and Ilan Pappé here.
LATEST REPORT ON THE ISRAELI TORTURE IN ITS PRISON CAMPS
'Israeli authorities are systematically abusing Palestinians in torture camps, subjecting them to severe violence and sexual assault,' Israeli rights group B'Tselem wrote on Monday. Torture was recorded in civilian and military detention facilities across Israel, leading to the death of at least 60 Palestinians while in Israeli custody in less than 10 months. Report here (Middle East Eye).
BOOKS AVAILABLE AT OUR STALLS AND MEETINGS
 
Now available at our stall, two great books to deepen our knowledge of the history of Palestine and Israel leading up to October 7. We're grateful to Lee at Printed Matter in Hastings, for generously discounting the price for us in support of the work of PSC.
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (Oneworld, 2007) £13 by Ilan Pappé, renowned Israeli historian, scholar and author who was forced from his position at the University of Haifa after publishing this book, and is now Professor of History and Director of the European Centre for Palestine Studies at the University of Exeter. In this book he exposes the facts behind the Nakba of 1948 with meticulous research into Israeli archival documents, making clear that ridding the land of its Palestinian inhabitants was always central to the founding of the State of Israel.
The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017, Rashid Khalidi (Profile Books, 2020) £12. Khalidi is Palestinian American and the Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University in New York City. He tells this history from the perspective of his own prominent Jerusalem Muslim family using his family's extensive archives in Jerusalem, along with multiple other sources, documenting the extensive Palestinian resistance to colonization that began with the arrival of European Jews to Palestine and has continued to the present.
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PALESTINE - ISRAEL: FROM A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE
Much of the 'information' in the corporate media is misleading. Here are some useful sources:
Middle East Eye. Electronic Intifada. Al Jazeera. Middle East Monitor.
Mondoweiss. Palestine Chronicle. Al Mayadeen. Mintpress. The Grayzone.
The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor. Jonathan Cook.
The Cradle. MediaLens. Declassified UK.
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Hastings and District PSC online membership and donations
Becoming a member of Hastings and District 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. If you would rather not use Paypal, you can pay directly to our bank: please contact us for the details. Or alternatively pay at one of our events.
The work of Hastings and District PSC could not continue without the 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 and District PSC.
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Recent Hastings and District PSC newsletters:
2 August 2024
26 July 2024
19 July 2024
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