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Hastings and District Palestine Solidarity Campaign
Newsletter 18 October 2024
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In this newsletter:
Saturday's Information stall
Sunday's online call with Al-Mawasi
Next Wednesday - Support the #houmous1
Saturday 23 November - Poetry for Gaza
Gifts for Gaza: Winter Appeal for Al-Mawasi
Plus...local news items; dates for your diary; books for sale....
SATURDAY'S INFORMATION STALL Saturday 19 October 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.
LONDON PROTEST FOR PALESTINE Saturday 19 October 2-4pm Trafalgar Square, London."If you live in London please join the protest for Palestine this Saturday as part of the Day of Action to demand our government institute a 2-way arms embargo on Israel."
ONLINE CALL WITH AL-MAWASI Sunday 20 October 5pm.
This will be an opportunity to learn how the people in southern Gaza have been dealing with more than a year of Israel's genocidal onslaught. A chance to hear the latest from members of the Al-Mawasi Resilience Committee. Register for the meeting at this link.
SUPPORT THE #HOUMOUS1 PEACEFUL PROTEST IS NOT A CRIME Wednesday 23 October 10.30am. Hastings Magistrates Court, Bohemia Road TN34 1ND
Join us to support nurse Chris Dindar as he fights a charge of criminal damage to a brand of houmous which is helping to fund Israeli genocide. Chris will plead not guilty to criminal damage relating to a peaceful protest at a Sainsbury's supermarket where he called for a boycott of Sabra houmous. Sabra is partly owned by the Strauss group, an Israeli multinational food and drink corporation which states that part of its approach to corporate responsibility is to provide Israeli soldiers with "support, to enhance their quality of life and service conditions, and sweeten their special moments."
And we will be there to support the #Houmous1 - please join us to show your support for our comrade.
Legal fighting fund If you can't come but want to support Chris you can donate to his legal fighting fund. More information at our Facebook event page. Article in the Canary.
Saturday 23 November. The Downstairs Bar, White Rock Hotel TN34 1JU
Poetry For Palestine - Poetry Open Mic Night. Fundraiser for the Al-Mawasi community. Tickets are £10 and £15. For Open mic poets £5. Tickets available at the door, online tickets available at Eventbrite.
GIFTS FOR GAZA - WINTER APPEAL
Thousands of displaced families are living in tents in Al Mawasi in Gaza with no means of supporting themselves. The Al Mawasi Community Resilience Committee is helping to support huge numbers of refugees now living there by distributing food, clothes and hygiene products. But the ongoing siege has forced prices sky high and aid is scarce.
If you are considering buying gifts this winter, please consider also giving a Gift for Gaza either in your name, or on behalf of a loved one. For more details go to our gofundme Gifts for Gaza page.
You can also buy Gift For Gaza gift cards from our weekly Saturday stall in Hastings town centre.
DABKE WORKSHOP. Saturday 19th October King Charles The Martyr Church Hall, Tunbridge Wells. West Kent PSC will be hosting a dabke workshop in Tunbridge Wells. More information: Eventbrite.
PSC TRADE UNION CONFERENCE. Saturday 19th October, 10am - 4.30pm. Hamilton House, Mabledon Place, London WC1H 9BB More information.
NEXT LONDON MARCH. Saturday 2 November. Details to follow.
BOOKS AVAILABLE AT OUR STALLS AND MEETINGS
Now available at our stall, five great books to deepen our knowledge of the history of Palestine and Israel. We're grateful to Lee at Printed Matter in Hastings, for generously discounting the price for us in support of the work of PSC.
A Very Short History of the Israel-Palestine Conflict by lan Pappé. (Oneworld Publications 2024) £9. 'A Very Short History of the Israel-Palestine Conflict is the best primer available on one of the world's most persistent settler-colonial tragedies. Amid the carnage of the Gaza genocide, it is essential to listen to Ilan Pappe, a preeminent historian of the Middle East, and a heroic scholar committed to justice and freedom.' Abdel Razzaq Takriti, Arab-American Educational Foundation Chair in Arab Studies.
One State - The Only Democratic Future for Palestine-Israel by Ghada Karmi. £12. This profound and important analysis of the future for Israel-Palestine has never felt more necessary or urgent. Ghada Karmi, whose family were exiled to Britain during the 1948 Nakba, makes the powerful case here for uniting the land to create a just future for all Palestinians and Israelis, and allowing the Palestinian right of return.
The best-selling author of In Search of Fatima has lost none of her eloquence in this bold and engaging treatise which lays out the instability at the heart of the Zionist state, examines its impact across the region, and analyzes the decades of work to present a workable 'solution,'
In the end she is unequivocal in her view that, however impossible it may appear, the current apartheid ethnocentric state will be replaced by one democratic state, asserting: "The fact that something is difficult to realise does not make it any less the right thing to do."
And, moreover, the concept itself must be long-established "not as an immediately attainable goal perhaps, but as a vision, an aspiration and a belief in the ultimate humanity of Palestinians and Jews and all those who wish to see them prosper."
In Search of Fatima: A Palestinian Story by Ghada Karmi (Verso Books) £12."A captivating Memoir of a middle class Palestinian family, one of more than 700,000 Palestinians uprooted and displaced from their historic homeland, Palestine, in 1948. In this memoir Ms. Karmi has documented a sample of the continuing suffering and injustice brought upon the Palestinian People by the creation of the Illegitimate State of Israel. While expressing the complex social and cultural feelings, hardships, and struggles in coping with the brutality of displacement and diaspora, Ms. Karmi remains optimistic and hopeful that Justice and Right will prevail.
This book must be read by young Palestinians, Israelis, Americans, Europeans, and Arabs, to truly understand and appreciate the only solution that will bring a lasting Peace in Palestine."
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.
ONLINE WELLBEING SESSIONS Clinical hypnotherapist Chris Dindar is running 30 min relaxation sessions to help decompress, process our emotions, and find a moment of peace and deep relaxation amidst the chaos. Chris is offering his services for free, as a token of his solidarity, to help nurture the well-being of our local group and maintain our collective resolve.
Please email Chris directly if interested in taking part. The sessions are the 1st and 3rd Friday of the month at 12 noon.
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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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