February/March 2014
Upcoming
Events: Local
Israeli Apartheid
Week 2014 Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=s0KONygMEg8
Oxford Israeli Apartheid Week 2014:
Oxford Israeli Apartheid Week is hosted by the Oxford University Arab Cultural Society.
All lectures will take place at 7pm.
Friday 21 Feb
‘Palestinian Refugees in the Context of the Syrian Revolution’
Speaker: Sami Adwan
Balliol College, Lecture Theatre 23
‘Palestinian Refugees in the Context of the Syrian Revolution’
Speaker: Sami Adwan
Balliol College, Lecture Theatre 23
Monday 24 Feb
‘Palestine is still the Issue’
Speaker: Prof. Ilan Pappe, Exeter University
Chair: Prof. Avi Shlaim, Oxford University
Wadham College, Old Refectory
‘Palestine is still the Issue’
Speaker: Prof. Ilan Pappe, Exeter University
Chair: Prof. Avi Shlaim, Oxford University
Wadham College, Old Refectory
Tuesday 25 Feb
‘Queer under Apartheid and the Palestinian Struggle for Liberation’
Speaker: Haneen Maikey, Founding Director of Al Qaws
Balliol College, Lecture Theatre 23
‘Queer under Apartheid and the Palestinian Struggle for Liberation’
Speaker: Haneen Maikey, Founding Director of Al Qaws
Balliol College, Lecture Theatre 23
Wednesday 26 Feb
‘Palestine and the Meaning of Solidarity’
Speaker: Dr Abdel Razzaq Takriti, Sheffield University
Wadham College, Old Refectory
‘Palestine and the Meaning of Solidarity’
Speaker: Dr Abdel Razzaq Takriti, Sheffield University
Wadham College, Old Refectory
Thursday 27 Feb
‘Zionism and the British Left’
Speaker: Dr. Paul Kelemen – Manchester University
Chair: Dr Sudhir Hazareesingh, Fellow of the British Academy, Balliol College
Balliol College, Lecture Theatre 23
‘Zionism and the British Left’
Speaker: Dr. Paul Kelemen – Manchester University
Chair: Dr Sudhir Hazareesingh, Fellow of the British Academy, Balliol College
Balliol College, Lecture Theatre 23
Oxford Ramallah Friendship
Association Charity Launch
ORFA has been active in
Oxford and Ramallah for over ten years.
We are delighted to announce that we
have had our application for charitable status approved!
Please come and help us celebrate on:
Saturday 1st March
4-6pm
at the Old Fire Station
40 George Street
Oxford
OX1 2AQ
Please come and join us for presentations
about our work, short speeches, and cake and refreshments. We will also be
fundraising with a raffle etc. for the planned women’s visit from Al Amari
refugee camp to Oxford in June 2014.
Charity no: 1155620
If you cannot come and want to donate, please send
a cheque to ORFA, c/o 80 Fairacres Road, Oxford OX4 1TG, and include your name
and address and a sentence saying you wish this donation to be gift-aided. We
will soon have the means to do this on the website.
Earlier in the day some of us shall do some leafleting
of one of the local Sainsburys http://www.palestinecampaign.org/events/sainsburys-stop-supporting-settlement-trade-national-day-action/
8 April: Mahmoud Hawari, archaeologist, will speak
about Jerusalem.
7.30pm Oxford Town Hall, all welcome.
Boycott actions: Boycott actions and leafleting continue to be
presently the most effective tactic. We are trying to be targeted in our
actions and nationally have concentrated on Veolia, G4S, and Sodastream. We
have done our part here where there is a local connection (and must keep our
eyes on any developing local connections of G4S and Veolia).
Tesco on the
Cowley road continues to sell settlement goods such as dates and we have
leafleted there regularly. There is a campaign relating to Sainburies. “Thanks to campaigners across the UK, the Sainsbury’s
Campaign started with a bang in 2013. We now need to build on that success and
expand the campaign even further in 2014. A key focus for action will involve
building towards Sainsbury’s own AGM in July. We urge those groups organising
actions around a local Sainsbury’s branch and also national organisations that
endorse our campaign statement, to get involved in the planning and
mobilisation for the Sainsbury’s AGM.”
Let us all take part in planning this carefully.
We shall have a monthly action on BDS on the first Saturday of every
month. On the first of March our local focus will probably be on Sainsburys.
Please inform us of Israeli and especially settlement goods that you notice on
sale in Oxford.
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Every Saturday 11.30-1.30pm: OXFORD PSC STALL in
Cornmarket by St Michael at Northgate church. The OPSC Saturday street stall
on Cornmarket Street is one of the main ways we use for raising the issue of
Palestine with the public at large. It is an important activ
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ity for offering information leaflets to the public, inviting them to join PSC or leave their email for Oxford PSC updates. Generally we are there 11:30 to 13:30. Always a minimum of two people on shift. Please consider volunteering for a shift: it’s an opportunity to meet other PSC members, those wanting information and occasionally those wishing to challenge our views, even volunteering for one shift a year would help. Please email Ali at OPSCstall@gmail.com if you're able to help.
If you are not already a member of PSC join
us now!
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Upcoming
Events: UK/International
Israeli students rebel
against their own Oxford club http://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/115579/israeli-students-rebel-against-their-own-oxford-club
Aid reaches
Palestinians in Yarmouk camp, but it’s still only a trickle
Please contact me if you have information about Israeli,
especially settlement, produce in local Sainsburys, and if you would like to
participate in leafleting the stores on March 1st.
Oxford
University PalSoc’s facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/5560924183/
Please email me to remind me of events you want to
be publicised, as I find I’m sometimes forgetful.
Please
send items to go in the bulletin to David Hillman on: DavidHillman07@aol.com. And
please send any comments or criticisms to me at the same address.
