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PSC update: protest against Israel’s ethnic cleansing

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Protest Against Israel’s ethnic cleansing
Nakba
New time, new place!
Saturday 18 May, 11am-1pm, Old Palace Yard
(opposite the Houses of Parliament)
This event takes place before the NHS march.
Professor Stephen Hawking joins boycott
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Boycott
Watch our video setting out the case for the cultural & academic boycott>
When he announced that he was withdrawing from an Israeli Presidential Conference because of respect for the Palestinian call for boycott, Professor Stephen Hawking created a global debate about Israel’s occupation and oppression of Palestinians. A Guardian poll found that 62% of respondents supported Hawking’s decision.
PSC Patrons, Hilary & Steven Rose, write in the Guardian that “what really winds up Israel is that this rejection comes from a famous scientist, and it is science that drives its economy, prestige and military strength.” Also read Ben White’s ‘5 reasons Hawking is right’ and PSC’s Sara Apps on ‘free speech under attack in Israel’.
On the Today programme, John Humphrys interviewed Palestinian academic & PSC Patron Ghada Karmi and BICOM research director Toby Greene about Stephen Hawking’s decision.
Karmi was interrupted a total of five times by Humphrys as she attempted to put the case for boycott. Greene was not interrupted or challenged once. He was also given the first word and the last word. Full details of this interview>
Please write to the BBC and ask how this interview can be considered balanced and impartial when it clearly favoured one interviewee over the other.
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Kick Israeli Racism out of UEFA

Friday 24 May 11am-4pm

Grosvenor House Hotel, Park Lane, London
Campaigners will present petitions to move the UEFA U21 finals from Israel.
Join activists from France, Switzerland, Belgium, Spain and Italy, representatives from trade unions, MPs, students from the Football Beyond Borders team, and if his visa comes in time, Mahmoud Sarsak. Enjoy the SOAS Samba band. Make your presence known. Wear a football shirt and bring a whistle!
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News and events
Twitterific! | Storify
Middle East Minister, Alistair Burt, answered tweets on the Middle East Peace Process.
Brutal treatment of faithful | PSC
Church leaders in Palestine have issued a rebuke to Israeli authorities for their ‘brutal treatment’ of worshippers during Holy Saturday.

until 19 May | Palestine Film Festival| Shipley

14 May | Meeting: Child Prisoners |Haringey, London

14 May| AGM: Merton PSC | London

15 May | Meeting: Nakba Commemoration|Newcastle-under-Lyme

15 May | Meeting: Remembering the Nakba| Durham
Israel military remains free press predator| Ma’an News
Israeli military remain on Reporters without Border’s list of ‘enemies of freedom of information’ for another year.
The Wall | The Guardian
Author William Sutcliffe says he returned from Palestine “psychologically and emotionally devastated” by what he saw.


16 May | Meeting: Remembering the Nakba| Birmingham

17 May | Meeting: Israeli Apartheid| Manchester

18 May | Nakba commemoration | Cardiff

18 May | Sodastream Protest| Brighton

23 May | Meeting: Goldstone

Commission & the day after| Watford
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