On the evening of Tuesday 24 June Arab Organisation for Human Rights (UK) and Palestine Solidarity Campaign are holding a joint meeting in central London: Israel’s “administrative detention” policy and the Plight of Palestinians on Hunger Strike Addressing the dire plight of nearly 200 Palestinians in Israeli jails on hunger strike (for over 50 days), protesting …
Thank you to all those who signed our petition calling on G4S to withdraw from Israeli prisons, and end its involvement with Israel’s human rights abuses.We handed this in at the G4S AGM in June, 2014. See a report>
Thursday 27th February 2014, 1900 Genesis Cinema, 93-95 Mile End Road, London E1 A World Not Ours is ‘an intimate, and often humorous, portrait of three generations of exile in the refugee camp of Ein el-Helweh, in southern Lebanon. Based on a wealth of personal recordings, family archives, and historical footage, the film is a …
John Lewis’s complacency and complicity in stocking occupation SodaStream products – despite their awareness of an international boycott campaign against the manufacturer – has been exposed. Read the EI article> This is John Lewis’ response so far: ” While I am sure a number of John Lewis’ customers may share these views, equally I am sure others …
Twitter action: Tell Oxfam to drop Scarlett Johannson over SodaStream role Hollywood actress Scarlett Johannson has agreed to be the public face of SodaStream, an Israeli drinks company that manufactures its products in the illegal Israeli settlement of Ma’ale Adumim . Johannson is also a goodwill ambassador for Oxfam. Having the actress representing Oxfam conflicts with the …
Join Gillian Slovo, Antony Gormley, Mike Leigh, Ken Loach, Julie Christie, Brian Eno, Bella Freud, Peter Gabriel, John Akomfrah OBE, Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, Bidisha, Jeremy Deller, Rt Hon Sir Gerald Kaufman, MP, Jemima Khan, Dr. Susie Orbach and many others by signing our letter against the Prawer Plan. John Akomfrah OBE artist, film director, writer Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, author, journalist Rodney Bickerstaffe Bidisha writer, broadcaster Howard …
On Wednesday 27th November (from 2pm-6pm) hundreds of supporters will gather together in Parliament to call on MPs to take action for Palestinian human rights and against ethnic cleansing and racism. Make sure you are there! Ask your MP for a meeting Make sure you are free on the day – and ask your friends …