Scoop December 2009
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This event is open to the public and we encourage all those interested to please attend. Bring your friends! Knowledge is power! | This event is open to the public and we encourage all those interested to please attend. Bring your friends! Knowledge is power! | ||
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For information on the book: http://israeliapartheidguide.com/ | For information on the book: http://israeliapartheidguide.com/ | ||
Ben White's website:http://www.benwhite.org.uk/ | Ben White's website:http://www.benwhite.org.uk/ | ||
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Ben White is a freelance journalist and writer specialising in Palestine/Israel. He also writes on the broader Middle East, Islam and Christianity, and the ‘war on terror’. Ben has been visiting Palestine/Israel since 2003 for periods of between two weeks and three months, typically basing himself in the Bethlehem district of the West Bank. | Ben White is a freelance journalist and writer specialising in Palestine/Israel. He also writes on the broader Middle East, Islam and Christianity, and the ‘war on terror’. Ben has been visiting Palestine/Israel since 2003 for periods of between two weeks and three months, typically basing himself in the Bethlehem district of the West Bank. | ||
His articles have appeared in a variety of international publications, including the Guardian online’s ‘Comment is free’, the New Statesman, Electronic Intifada, Christian Science Monitor, Palestine Chronicle, Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, Middle East International, Church Times, Church of England Newspaper, Third Way, and Palestine-Israel Journal. | His articles have appeared in a variety of international publications, including the Guardian online’s ‘Comment is free’, the New Statesman, Electronic Intifada, Christian Science Monitor, Palestine Chronicle, Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, Middle East International, Church Times, Church of England Newspaper, Third Way, and Palestine-Israel Journal. | ||
| - | In 2008, along with blogger and film-maker Philip Rizk, Ben organised the ‘JustPeace60’ declaration of Christian leaders around the world. On Israel’s 60th anniversary, this statement was published in the UK national newspaper ‘The Independent’ and reproduced all over the internet. | + | In 2008, along with blogger and film-maker Philip Rizk, Ben organised the ‘JustPeace60’ declaration of Christian leaders around the world. On Israel’s 60th anniversary, this statement was published in the UK national newspaper ‘The Independent’ and reproduced all over the internet. He has given numerous talks on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in universities, churches, and community centres. |
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| + | == NEXT NORWICH PSC MEETING THURSDAY DECEMBER 17 AT 7.45PM AT BELVEDERE CENTRE, BELVOIR STREET, NORWICH == | ||
| - | + | If you want to give Christmas gifts which help PSC to raise funds and help keep the most underprivileged inhabitants of the Holy Land in the forefront of people's minds, I hold a small stock of PSC T-shirts (£12), scarves (£10), Christmas cards (£3.50 per pack of 5) and Ghadi Karmi's book Married to Another Man; Isrtael's Dilemma in Palestine (£12). Please contact me ASAP if you are interested. | |
| + | Chair_NPSC <chair@norwichpsc.or | ||
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==Afghanistan: Imperialist Intervention and Resistance, Thu. 3rd Dec., 7pm, ARTS 01.02, UEA== | ==Afghanistan: Imperialist Intervention and Resistance, Thu. 3rd Dec., 7pm, ARTS 01.02, UEA== | ||
