I’d like to invite you to the One Democratic Palestine AGM which will be on Sunday 20th August at 11am UK time (1pm in Palestine) and should last about an hour on Zoom. I’m delighted that our AGM will be addressed by a Muslim and a Jew. We have Palestinian speaker Um Nidal of the Palestine Refugee Project (who will also join our steering group) joining us from her family’s refugee camp in Lebanon. Also speaking will be Rabbi Dovid Feldman, spokesman for Neturei Karta International. I met Rabbi Feldman last year- he is a colleague of Rabbi Weiss who spoke on the Muslim & Jew Tour. He will join us from New York for the call. There is a very active group of 5,000 Orthodox Jews in the Monsey/Williamsburg area of New York who are resolute in their support for Palestine and refusal to acknowledge Israel’s right to exist. They, like us, seek the peaceful dissolution of what they see as a racist state, that goes against everything they hold dear in Judaism. They are outside the UN protesting just about every week!
For those of you have heard Rabbi Weiss (see his 4-minute Nakba day address that was filmed on our tour, which has now had about a million views on Instagram, on You-tube at https://youtu.be/xKv8Co79ZA0 ), this is a great opportunity to hear a fresh Jewish voice on the battle to free Palestine from Zionist oppression.
At the AGM, as well as appointing office-bearers to the Committee (Chairperson, Vice-chair, Secretary/Events Organiser, Social Media officer, Treasurer (if we ever chose to charge for membership!), we’ll be looking at the year gone by and the year ahead (we have 68 members just now, plus 47 signed up to the newsletter). I’m planning that we have a presence at the various Party Conferences in late Sept/ early October; next year is election year in the UK: this is a good time to be reminding politicians that Israel has killed the two-state solution and that one democratic Palestine represents the most ethical way forward.
If you would like to attend the AGM on Zoom, please email info@onepalestine.land
Best wishes
Best wishes
Pete Gregson (Chair)
One Democratic Palestine