The following letter from Julie Pearn to Cllr Tom Hunt, leader of Sheffield City Council, has not received a reply. On the day that the International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu (Israeli Prime Minister), Yoav Gallant (former Israeli Defence Minister) and Mohammed Deif (military commander of Hamas) I am happy toContinueContinue reading “Tom Hunt is challenged to stand down over Gaza”
Category Archives: Israel
Sheffield calls for an end to arms sales to Israel.
As the bombing of Lebanon and the Genocide in Gaza continued, Sheffielders came out in force on Saturday to demand the Government stop selling arms to Israel. Here is the march- it took more than 5 minutes to come past me and I estimate there were about 1000 people. https://youtu.be/A-XsD810BaM Emma Davis from the NEUContinueContinue reading “Sheffield calls for an end to arms sales to Israel.”
“Dismantling Apartheid, South Africa to Palestine”
News from the Sheffield Palestine Coalition against Israeli Apartheid. Mandla Mandela, a member of parliament in South Africa, the chief of the Mvezo Traditional Council, the grandson of Nelson Mandela, and a passionate supporter of Palestine, is speaking in Sheffield at 7.00pm on Thursday, October 10th. The meeting is organised by the Sheffield Palestine Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid andContinueContinue reading ““Dismantling Apartheid, South Africa to Palestine””
Shanshula
A letter to the Sheffield Star and Sheffield Telegraph Dear Editor Yesterday I went to see the film Shanshula which Sheffield Palestinian Musheir El-Farra produced, at the Broomhall Centre. The film gives a voice to the fishermen and fisherwomen of Gaza. The film begins before the horrors of October 7th. The fishermen and women describeContinueContinue reading “Shanshula”
Rally for Palestine at Sheffield Station
20th September 2024 Here are the highlights from this evening’s rally. https://youtu.be/fu3z1C5qKMg I also spoke briefly to tell people about the Green Party’s successful Conference Motion. Details of forthcoming local events for Palestine follow. For more info see https://www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk/ Unfortunately the Assembly clashes with the Restore Nature Now march but it is possible to goContinueContinue reading “Rally for Palestine at Sheffield Station”
Green Party Conference calls for an end to Genocide and Apartheid in Palestine.
Last weekend, the Green Party Conference was in Manchester. I wasn’t able to attend, but was delighted that the motion I co-proposed on Palestine was overwhelmingly supported. Here is Kate Usoff proposing the motion. https://www.instagram.com/reel/C_qubiFoObN/ Here’s Cllr Mothin Ali seconding the motion. https://twitter.com/MothinAli/status/1832891158927938007 The full text of the motion is as follows. Insert the followingContinueContinue reading “Green Party Conference calls for an end to Genocide and Apartheid in Palestine.”
Green Party Conference Motion on Palestine
Calling my friends in the Green Party. Please co-propose this motion to our next conference. All you need to do is send the following email to the Standing Orders Committee. (soc@greenparty.org.uk) Dear SOC, I’m emailing to co-propose the motion titledRecognition of Israeli Apartheid, Israel’s Genocide, and Supporting the BDS Movement In Communications’ This is theContinueContinue reading “Green Party Conference Motion on Palestine”
Sheffield Rallies for Palestine
We may have been distracted by the General Election and/or the football, but the horrendous truth is the Genocide is continuing in Palestine and our Government is complicit in it along with local institutions such as Sheffield University. Our Government may have changed, but it is still supporting Israel both by supplying arms and givingContinueContinue reading “Sheffield Rallies for Palestine”
Tories come first and second in the Election Whopper poll!
Congratulations to Miriam Cates, the Conservative candidate in the Penistone and Stocksbridge constituency, for topping the poll to find Sheffield’s biggest Election Whopper. She is reported to have said at the hustings that “Israel isn’t killing civilians, they are killing terrorists.” According to Save the Children “Nearly 15,000 children in Gaza have been killed sinceContinueContinue reading “Tories come first and second in the Election Whopper poll!”
Vote for the biggest whopper of the Sheffield Election Campaign
There have been lots of whoppers told in this Election campaign in Sheffield. The following are all in the running for the Tell the Truth Sheffield Pinocchio Award. Vote today to help decide who should win the Pinocchio Award! Giorgio Scapinelli, CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0, via Wikimedia Commons https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6e/Scap_-_Pinocchio.jpg Sheffield Conservative Federation Chairman Steven WinstoneContinueContinue reading “Vote for the biggest whopper of the Sheffield Election Campaign”
