Another eyewitness report from one of our members currently in Palestine

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 …

Another eyewitness account from Palestine

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 …

An eyewitness bulletin from one of our members currently in the occupied Palestinian West Bank

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 …

Ecostream closure announced around the world

A selection of sites reporting the closure of Sodastream’s ‘Ecostream’ store in Brighton: Brighton & Hove Independent Brighton Argus Palestine Solidarity Campaign (UK) The Electronic Intifada Ha’aretz Jewish Chronicle RT (Russia Today) Middle East Monitor International Middle East Media Centre Oumma.com (NB “Les Militants de Brighton”)