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The video recording of our meeting on Masafer Yatta is now on our YouTube channel

March 6, 2023

On Feb 16 we held an online meeting ‘Masafer Yatta: Reports from the Frontline’.

The meeting was a powerful examination of the incremental ethnic cleansing of the rural Palestinian communities in the south Hebron hills. It featured conversations with Basel al-Adraa, a local activist and journalist, and Joan Neary, recently returned to the UK after a 3-month posting to Masafer Yatta as an international observer.

You can now watch the full meeting by clicking this link to our YouTube channel:
https://youtu.be/hNLUJ0hnWHg

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A review of our activities in 2022

January 8, 2023

Many thanks to a couple of our members who have put together this short video, reviewing BHPSC’s activities in 2022. Many thanks to our hundreds of members and supporters for your continuing support.

CLICK HERE TO LINK TO THE VIDEO

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The books we collected for Samir’s bookshop in Gaza have arrived safely!

February 2, 2022

Thousands of books from Brighton and around the UK have arrived safely in Gaza

Local activists worked flat out back in the summer to collect books for Samir Mansour’s bookshop that had been destroyed by an Israeli air strike during the assault in May.

Our local members and supporters donated hundreds and hundreds of books, which we delivered to the central collection point in October. 

Since then, we could only hope that the books would get to Gaza safely. 

We’ve now heard that three enormous shipments of books, amounting to over 100,000 books, have arrived safely. 

You can watch the video of the first shipment arriving here – including Samir unpacking the first pallets of books. If you can’t access Instagram, you can see the video on the Facebook page for our comrades Hastings & Rye PSC.

And you can read The Guardian’s coverage here.

Filed Under: Local News & Reports, News & Reports from Palestine

NOW AVAILABLE! Video recording of our online meeting ‘Free Mohammed El Halabi’ 20 Oct 2021

November 23, 2021

We were honoured to host this meeting, which drew attention to the plight of Mohammed El Halabi. 

Mohammed has been imprisoned by Israel for more than 5 years, without trial.

Mohammed worked for international aid organisation World Vision in Gaza. He was arrested in July 2016 by Israel. The charges could not have been more serious: transferring 7.2 million dollars a year from World Vision, an American charity, to Hamas. This despite the fact that World Vision’s total budget over this time in Gaza was a fraction of this amount, and even though two audits concluded that no money was missing. Why? Almost certainly in an attempt to discredit NGOs and aid agencies working in Palestine, by trying to link them to allegedly terrorist groups.

We were especially honoured to welcome Mohammed’s father Khalil, as well as journalist Asa Winstanley and author Andrew Feinstein.

You can view the recording on our YouTube channel.

Filed Under: Local News & Reports

Recent donations made by BHPSC

May 30, 2021

We always try to use a proportion of our income, from membership subscriptions and donations from the public, to make donations to groups and projects in Palestine that are part of the resistance. It goes without saying that the need for support in recent weeks has been intense. 

If you wish to add further to our funds for such donations, you can do this via the Donations page on this website

Donation of £500 to Medical Aid for Palestinians
Many of you will be aware of MAP’s work, and you may support their activities yourselves. We responded to their emergency appeal with a donation of £500, on behalf of our members. You can find out more about the appeal, and about MAP’s work, here.

Donation of £500 to IMET2000
IMET2000’s work is perhaps less well known, but achieves extraordinary things in Gaza. You may have heard IMET2000’s founder, Prof Colin Green, speak in Brighton a few years ago. Colin wrote to us personally to thank us for the donation (again, made on behalf of our members) to say that the £500 donation would cover the cost of one of several oxygen concentrators/generators being shipped to Gaza a few days later. More about IMET2000’s work here.

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Sanctions Now! Sign the petition

May 15, 2021

15 May 2021

As a matter of urgency, we call on all our supporters to sign this petition, calling on the UK government to impose sanctions (including an arms embargo) on the Israeli regime. 

The petition was launched on the 14th of May. It reached 100,000 signatures without 24 hours, and has already picked up over a quarter of a million signatures. But it is still essential for as many people as possible to sign – let’s reach half a million quickly! When it reached 100,000 there was an expectation that it will be debated in Parliament, but we must apply pressure on our MPs to ensure this happens without delay.

The ongoing ethnic cleansing of Palestine, and the relentless assault on Gaza, are only possible with the complicity of the international community. That’s why we must act, now!

Click on the link below to be taken to the petition. Thank you.

Introduce sanctions against Israel

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  • Weʼre raising £4,000 to help the Palestinian people of Masafer Yatta resist Israel’s ethnic cleansing. BHPSC will match all donations!

    Weʼre raising £4,000 to help the Palestinian people of Masafer Yatta resist Israel’s ethnic cleansing. BHPSC will match all donations!

  • The video recording of our meeting on Masafer Yatta is now on our YouTube channel

    The video recording of our meeting on Masafer Yatta is now on our YouTube channel

  • A review of our activities in 2022

    A review of our activities in 2022

  • The books we collected for Samir’s bookshop in Gaza have arrived safely!

    The books we collected for Samir’s bookshop in Gaza have arrived safely!

  • NOW AVAILABLE! Video recording of our online meeting ‘Free Mohammed El Halabi’ 20 Oct 2021

    NOW AVAILABLE! Video recording of our online meeting ‘Free Mohammed El Halabi’ 20 Oct 2021

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