Palestinians have written to Nick Cave to ask him to cancel his November concerts in Israel.
Join us in Glasgow outside the SSE Hydro, to reach out to Nick Cave fans - to ask him to heed the Palestinian call.
-- Wed 27 September 2017 5.30pm

'We are writing from Palestine to urge you to cancel your concerts in Israel this upcoming November. We hope that you will consider our call for a cultural boycott with an open mind, and an open heart.'

'Since your last performance in Israel in 1998, Israel has intensified its oppression of Palestinians with impunity and often with complicity from world governments. During this period Israel multiplied its settler population to over half a million in the occupied West Bank. Meanwhile, over 10,000 Palestinians were banished from living in occupied East Jerusalem, despite being born in the city. In 2016 alone, Israel demolished or seized 1,093 Palestinian-owned structures throughout the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, leaving 1,600 Palestinians homeless, nearly half of whom are children. This year marks a decade of Israel’s illegal siege on Gaza, where two million Palestinians live in dire conditions. And just last week, a United Nations report stated that “evidence supports beyond a reasonable doubt the proposition that Israel is guilty of imposing an apartheid regime on the Palestinian people, which amounts to the commission of a crime against humanity”.'
Read full PACBI letter to Nick Cave: https://bdsmovement.net/news/palestinians-nick-cave-heed-our-non-violent-call-justice

Richard Haley from SACC (Scotland Against Criminalising Communities) will kick off a discussion of what attitude we should take to the Government's 'Prevent' programme and the strategy that underpins it
You can usefully read this before the meeting:
http://www.richard-haley.co.uk/preventing-prevent/

Badee Dwaik from Hebron will be touring the UK talking about life under occupation, and the value of cameras as part of the non violent resistance. Badee is the Founder of Human Rights Defenders.

Badee is speaking in Glasgow on 3 October and in Edinburgh on 4 October.

"Media all over the world have covered the case of the killing of Abdul Fattah al-Shareef, the Palestinian teenager who was shot in his head in cold blood by Israeli soldier Elor Azaria on 24th March 2016 in the Tel Rumeida district in Hebron. Hebron, the largest city in the West Bank, is unique among other West Bank cities in that illegal Israeli settlements are distributed not only at its periphery, but also in the heart of the city, including in Tel Rumeida. These are accompanied by military checkpoints spread out over the city centre preventing the free movement of its inhabitants, and dividing the city into isolated sections which have become a sort of exhibition of contemporary apartheid, or - from the point of view of the terrorised inhabitants who remain - a ghost town.

"The wide publicity which the video of this particular killing received is a good and important thing, in so far as it helped to reveal the criminal acts which are perpetrated by Israel’s military occupation of the West Bank - the founding purpose of our group, Human Rights Defenders. Yet, there are facts that have seldom been spoken about in the Israeli media, or indeed the international media, which continue to rely disproportionately on Israeli media sources for its information."
Read the full article here: https://www.opendemocracy.net/north-africa-west-asia/gilbert-ramsay-badee-dwaik/untold-story-of-how-killing-of-abdulfattah-al-shareef-was-

Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/badee-dwaik-from-hebron-human-rights-defenders-tickets-38110277867