Sunday, February 16, 2014

February/March 2014



 

                      

Upcoming Events: Local

 


 

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

Monday 24 Feb
‘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

Wednesday 26 Feb
‘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


 

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/

 




http://oxfordisraeliapartheidweek.wordpress.com/

EVENTS:
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
https://www.facebook.com/events/1392065817724910/

Monday 24 Feb
‘Palestine is still the Issue’
Speaker: Prof. Ilan Pappé, Exeter University
Chair: Prof. Avi Shlaim, Oxford University
Wadham College, Old Refectory
https://www.facebook.com/events/229401820580467

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
https://www.facebook.com/events/233730370143925

Wednesday 26 Feb
‘Palestine and the Meaning of Solidarity’
Speaker: Dr Abdel Razzaq Takriti, Sheffield University
Wadham College, Old Refectory
https://www.facebook.com/events/420748124738414

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
https://www.facebook.com/events/595852753832785

ABOUT BDS:

The BDS movement calls for a sustained campaign of global pressure until Israel meets its obligations under international law: full equality for Arab-Palestinian citizens of Israel, an end to the occupation and colonization of all Arab lands – including the Golan Heights, the Occupied West Bank with East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip – and dismantling the Wall, and the protection of Palestinianrefugees’ right to return to their homes and properties as stipulated in U.N. resolution 194.

For more information, please visit:
www.ApartheidWeek.org


 

 



 

 

 

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.”

The next date for the monthly action is Saturday February 1st.”  http://www.sainsburyscampaign.org/

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.


 

 

 

 

 

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

 


 



 


 

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.