Public Meeting with Palestinian Environmental & Political Activist Mazin Qumsiyeh

Mazin Qumsiyeh Meeting Flyer

Israel daily violates international law and human rights, committing crimes against humanity and against nature. Professor Mazin Qumsiyeh with talk about popular resistance in Palestine, which is a history of hope and empowerment.

Mazin will a focus on environmental justice. Supporters of the state of Israel often claim that Israel has ‘turned the desert green’. He will present a very different picture; of environmental destruction and degradation in the occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip.

Mazin Qumsiyeh  is a professor of biotechnology at both Bethlehem and Birzeit Universities – at the former he is founding director of the Institute for Biodiversity Research and the Palestine Museum of Natural History. He is co-founder of the Palestine Right to Return Coalition, the Middle East Genetics Association, the Holy Land Conservation Foundation and Academics for Justice.

He has had more than a thousand articles published, in print and online. His books include Mammals of the Holy Land (1996), Sharing the Land of Canaan (2004) and Popular Resistance in Palestine: A history of hope and empowerment (2011).

Details

25th Jul 2019 7:00 – 9:00 pm

Friends Meeting House, 6 Mount Street, behind Central Library, Manchester, M2 5NS

24th Jun 2019 Starting 5:50 pm @ Home Cinema Manchester

Palestinian filmmakers from different locations – Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza – challenge the erasure of their histories through creatively retracing, retrieving and reflecting on different aspects of Palestinian pasts to challenge the erasure, dispossession and dehumanisation of a stateless people.

Continue reading THE PAST IN THE PRESENT: THREE PALESTINIAN SHORT FILMS →

Join us in Manchester on the International Day of Action to boycott Puma Saturday 15th June.

Demonstration begins 12noon  Piccadilly Gardens.

The day of action follows the call from over 200 Palestinian Sports Clubs urging Puma to end their sponsorship of the Israeli Football Association (IFA) which incorporated teams from Israel’s illegal settlements in the occupied Palestinian Territories.

Israeli settlements are illegal land grabs that form an integral part of Israel’s occupation infrastructure – pushing indigenous Palestinian families off their land, robbing natural resources, and denying Palestinians their rights including right of movement. All Israeli settlements are considered war crimes under international law.

Puma is the main sponsor of the Israel Football Association (IFA), which includes football clubs based in illegal Israeli settlements on stolen Palestinian land.

As one of the world’s top athletic apparel makers, Puma’s sponsorship brings international legitimacy to the IFA and helps maintain its direct involvement with violations of human rights and international law off the field.

BOYCOTT Puma until they end their sponsorship of Israel Football Association and links with Israeli apartheid.Details

15th Jun 2019 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm

Piccadilly Gardens, Manchester City Centre, Manchester, M1 1AF

8PM-12PM SATURDAY 18 MAY

Live online, and in venues across the globe, at the same time as the Eurovision final in Tel Aviv!

With gigs in Dublin, Haifa, London and Bethlehem, on the night of Eurovision 2019 – music videos and messages from artists around the world. Globalvision is a Palestinian led response to pinkwashing and artwashing of Israel’s crimes.

Continue reading DON’T WATCH EUROVISION WATCH GLOBALVISION →

Manchester Coach for National Demonstration

Coach departs Chorlton Street Bus Station at 7am getting back to Manchester at approximately 9:30pm.

Tickets £30 (£15 concessions). Purchased here  EVENTBRITE.

If you are unable to attend, you can sponsor a seat  via EVENTBRITE HERE .

For further information email contact@psc-manchester.org.uk or text 07972 365 257

The Palestinian people need our solidarity more than ever, and are calling for global protests to protect their collective rights. As Israel continues to flout international law and violate human rights, there is a responsibility on the global community to hold it to account and push for an end to the oppression of the Palestinian people.

Saturday 11th May  12noon Portland Place

Organised by: Palestine Solidarity Campaign, Stop the War Coalition, Palestinian Forum in Britain, Friends of Al- Aqsa, Muslim Association of Britain. 

Supported by: Unite the Union, PCS, UNISON, RMT, ASLEF, UCU, Amos Trust, CND.

National Demonstration Exist! Resist! Return!

Stop Arming Israel – End The Siege of Gaza
Mobilising Rally for National Demonstration for Palestine

Speakers

Kamel Hawwash (National Chair, Palestine Solidarity Camp

Chris Nineham (National Vice Chair, Stop The War Coalition)

Yasmine Dar (M/cr City Councillor & Labour NEC Member

Jacqui Burke (Oldham Peace & Justices Group)

No New Nakba! – Defend the Right of Return!

Rally Details

7.00pm Thursday 25th April
Mechanics Institute, 103 Princess Street, Manchester M1 6DD

Organised by Manchester Palestine Solidarity Campaign and Greater Manchester Stop the War Coalition

National Demonstration Details

Manchester Coach for National Demonstration

Coach Chorlton Street Bus Station at 7am and depart from London at 4:30pm getting back to Manchester at approximately 9:30pm. Tickets £30 (£15 concessions). They can be purchased from eventbrite here

The Palestinian people need our solidarity more than ever, and are calling for global protests to protect their collective rights. As Israel continues to flout international law and violate human rights, there is a responsibility on the global community to hold it to account and push for an end to the oppression of the Palestinian people.

National Demonstration Exist! Resist! Return! Saturday 11th May organised by: Palestine Solidarity Campaign, Stop the War Coalition, Palestinian Forum in Britain, Friends of Al- Aqsa, Muslim Association of Britain.
Supported by: Unite the Union, PCS, UNISON, RMT, ASLEF, UCU, Amos Trust, CND.

Picture above: Sign for JNF UK funded British Park built on the ruins of Palestinian villages ethnically cleansed in 1948.

Speaker: Kholud al Ajarma 

In 2018, Kholoud al Ajarma appealed to the Charity Commission that the JNF UK should not be recognised as a charitable organisation as the JNF funded British Park is built on her family’s village, Ajjur.  Her family still have the title deeds to their land in Ajjur. The Charity Commission rejected her claim.

At an independent tribunal, Kholoud will be challenging the Charity Commission’s refusal to end the JNF’s charitable status that entitles the JNF to receive UK tax relief. Her appeal is supported by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC).

Come and hear the case for de-registration of the JNF UK .

Details 
4th Apr 2019 7:00 – 9:00 pm Friends Meeting House, 6 Mount Street, behind Central Library, Manchester, M2 5NS

The meeting is part of a PSC national speaking tour in support of those challenging the JNF’s charitable status.

Stop JNF A5 Flyer

Biography Kholoud al Ajarma belongs to one of the families ethnically cleansed from Ajjur in 1948. Today, they live in Aida Refugee Camp, Bethlehem, only about 25 miles from their village.   The family still have the title deeds to their land in Ajjur.  Kholoud has studied in England, Holland, Norway and Morocco, but says the Right of Return is the real work of her life.

Continue reading Public Meeting: JNF UK – Complicit In Ethnic Cleansing →

March 30th will be the 1st anniversary of the start of the Gaza Return March.  March 30th is also Palestinian Land Day.

Palestinians have issued a call for  international action on the day.

Join the protest on Saturday  30th March at 12 noon.

We will be demanding an end to the siege of Gaza and the right of return for Palestinians.

No new Nakba !
End the Siege of Gaza!
Defend the Right of Return!

March 30th is Palestinian Land Day – when Palestinians across the world remember the unarmed protesters killed by Israel in 1976 during demonstrations about Israel’s theft of Palestinian land. This year, March 30th also marks the the 1st anniversary of the start of the Great Return March. These ongoing protests, taking place every single Friday, have seen thousands of Palestinians demonstrating for their right of return to their villages and homes from which they were forcibly removed. Many have been irreversibly injured and even killed for doing so by Israeli snipers.

So join us on Saturday March 30th at 12 noon to show support for the Palestinian people and their rights to EXIST, RESIST & RETURN!

#FreePalestine #ExistResistReturn

Details

30th Mar 2019 12 noon Piccadilly Gardens, City Centre, Manchester.

The 14th Tom Hurndall Memorial Lecture will take place on Monday. It will be given by Salma Karmi-Ayyoub on Monday 25 March 2019, 6.30-8.00pm at Manchester Metropolitan University in Brooks Building Lecture Theatre 1.   The title of her lecture is ‘Israel’s Nation State Law and consequences for Palestine’.

Tom Hurndall was a student at Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU). He was fatally wounded by the Israeli Defence Force whilst protecting Palestinian children in Gaza. He died on January 13th 2004. Since 2005 MMU has hosted a Memorial Lecture which has attracted prestigious figures willing to speak out against what was done in 2004 and what is still being done now by the Israeli State.

For more details about this lecture and previous lectures, visit the Tom Hurndall Memorial Lecture page on Facebook. The organising group for the lecture is from MMU and Manchester University.

Eventbrite Registration D

25th Mar 2019 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm Lecture Theatre 1, Brookes Building, Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU), 53, Bonsall Street, Manchester, M15 6GX

Musheir El-Farra (Chair of Sheffield PSC) has just returned from the Gaza Strip.  He will  give an illustrated talk about his visit focusing on the ways in which popular resistance to Israeli’s siege is developing  despite the severe hardship people are experiencing.

Since the peaceful protests began along the Israeli-Gaza border on March 30, 2018, Israeli forces have killed over 200 Palestinians and wounded more than 7,000 people with live ammunition.

He will talk about  the children projects that Sheffield PSC supports in partnership with local Palestinian grass root organisation in Gaza, which includes  the Healing Centre in Khuza’a that provides much needed support for the many children traumatised by Israeli attacks and siege

Details

Thursday 21st Mar 2019 7:00 – 9:00 pm Friends Meeting House, 6 Mount Street, behind Central Library, Manchester, M2 5NS