The Civil Society and the Question of Palestine

30 April 2015

ASIA

  • Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) Thailand will organize a??in Bangkok on 7 May. PSC Thailand and the BDS Campaigns will report on their activities and launch their online fundraising campaign for Palestinian refugee families in Bangkok.
  • PSC Thailand will also hold its??of the Nakba in Bangkok on 19 May. The theme will be “One Year After Operation Cast Lead: The State of Palestinian Civil Society Today”.

EUROPE

  • PSC organised a??in Birmingham on 3 May and will?organise a??in London on 9 May.
  • A??with the Palestinian author and human rights activist?Susan Abulhawa will take place in London on 2 June. The event is organised by the?School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS)?Palestine Society (University of London), Bloomsbury Press and Palestine Solidarity Campaign.
  • After completing a tour in the West Bank, the??will showcase its??in the?UK?from 13 May to 20 June.?The play is inspired by the real stories of a group of militants who during the height of the second Intifada took refuge in the Church of the Nativity.
  • The UK Chapter of the??will hold its??in London on 30 May.
  • ¡°³¢±ð?¡± (CPJPO) is organizing a series of??in the framework of its project ¡°Spring for Palestine¡±.
  • ?organised a race in Liege, Belgium on 3 May. The next race will take place in Brussels on 31 May.
  • The??is organizing several exhibitions and screenings during the month of May.
  • The UK Chapter of??just launched its new?.

ISRAEL

  • ?invited its supporters to join the March of Return to a Palestinian village destroyed in the 1948 war, organized by the Association for the?Defence of the Rights of the Displaced People?in Israel.

NORTH AMERICA

  • On 22 April, the Student Senate of Earham College in Indiana, USA, passed a??from companies directly involved in the Israeli occupation of Palestine: Motorola, Hewlett-Packard, and Caterpillar.
  • A special??of the New York Comics and Picture-story Symposium was held on 22 April at Parsons college. At the event ¡°Beyond Handala: Editorial Cartooning and Comics in Palestine¡±, Mohammad Saba¡¯aneh, editorial cartoonist for the Palestinian daily newspaper?Al-Hayat Al-Jadid, shared his work and the work of his fellow Palestinian cartoonists, and discussed the landscape for cartooning and comics under Israeli occupation and beyond.
  • American Friends of ±¬ÁÏÍøRWA invites its supporters to its??on 16 May 2015 in Washington, DC to show solidarity with the children of Gaza.
  • The??hosted on 29 April a??with the scholar Norman Finkelstein entitled ¡°Method and Madness: The hidden story of Israel¡¯s assaults on Gaza¡± at the City University of New York.
  • The Israel-Palestine Working Group held a conversation on the Palestinian Economy on 24 April.
  • Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at the New School in New York are inviting participants to attend an??on the Political Economy of Palestine: Challenges of Colonialism and Neoliberalism on 8 May.

±¬ÁÏÍøITED NATIONS

  • The Working Group of the Palestinian Rights Committee met on 27 April and heard a briefing from??on its recent report?.
  • The Palestinian Rights Committee held its??on Friday 1 May and approved two requests from civil society organizations to be accredited to the Committee and one request for observer status.