STORIES FROM PALESTINE AL AQSA MOSQUE Every day the Jerusalem team of EAs walk through the Old City to ensure that all is quiet and that there is access to the mosque. EAs often enter the Al Aqsa mosque compound, which, despite the tensions of occupation, seems a serene and lovely place. Standing …
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Saturday 21 February 2015 Waitrose – the supermarket that flaunts its ‘corporate social responsibility’ and its egalitarian employment practices – has teamed up with the Israeli Tourist Board to produce a special glossy insert for ‘Waitrose Kitchen’, their customer magazine. The 32-page insert is called ‘Taste of Israel Guide’, and is a shameless progaganda vehicle …
17 February 2015 Instro Precision, an arms company near Broadstairs (Kent), was occupied at 5am this morning to protest its sales to both Israel and Afghanistan. Four people are on the roof with banners to shut the factory down, with ten more on the ground, one of whom is locked to the fence. A wide …
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This is the first bulletin from ‘S’, one of our local members, who is participating in a programme with Quaker Peace and Social Witness as an ecumenical accompanier serving on the World Council of Churches Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel (EAPPI). PALESTINIAN STORIES No 1, February 2015 On Saturday we drove out to …
It was once said (I can’t remember by whom) that when you come to Palestine you can write a book, but when you leave you can hardly write a sentence. One must be forgiven, at times, for occasionally experiencing a sense of normality when living in Area A. The overwhelming hospitality, really cool Arabic music …
Friday 19 December 2014 Members of SmashEDO and Brighton Palestine Action staged an early morning visit to the main branch of Barclays Bank in Brighton this morning, drawing attention to Barclays’ complicity in the deadly arms trade – and in particular their investment in Elbit Systems, a huge israeli arms manufacturer that produces the drones …
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