Urgent – Demolition Alert

Please take action – and pass this on to others

Urgent action – please sign our online petition
Our  online petition asks Foreign Minister Bob Carr to make urgent representations to Israel’s Ambassador in Australia regarding the need to lift the demolition orders on the fifty one (51) structures in the village of Susiya, near Hebron, including a clinic funded by Action Aid Australia and solar panels funded by EU countries.
More information here or go straight to the petition at http://www.communityrun.org/petitions/help-save-susiya-village-clinic-and-solar-panels

Please let Minister Carr know you expect him to act to protect this investment of the Australian taxpayer and the homes of Susiya villages.

Email Foreign Minister Carr  foreignminister.carr@dfat.gov.au – write your own letter or use the model letter here  or telephone his office  (02) 6277 7500

Support Hebron pre-schools

If you couldn’t make it to the Festival on Saturday you can still support our pre-school projects in the South Hebron Hills by  making a tax-deductible donation to the Kindergarten Appeal. By donating to this appeal you will be helping support early childhood education facilities for Palestinian communities in the south Hebron hills.

We still have some ceramic pieces and kuffiyehs from Hebron and they will be on sale at the Addison Road Winter Magic Festival on Saturday 30th June – we will be there from approximately 1-5pm.


Hebron: microcosm of Israeli apartheid? Forum speakers confirmed

We’re pleased to announce that the speakers for the forum at this year’s Festival of Friendship have been confirmed.  The forum will explore the issue of apartheid in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories, and will feature academic Ghassan Hage, writer Randa Abdel-Fattah and anti-apartheid veteran Kolin Thumbadoo as speakers, and journalist Antony Loewenstein as moderator.

Festival of Friendship 2012 Forum panel: from left, Antony Loewenstein, Randa Abdel Fattah, Kolin Thumbadoo and Ghassan Hage

Festival of Friendship 2012 Forum panel: from left, Antony Loewenstein, Randa Abdel Fattah, Kolin Thumbadoo and Ghassan Hage

Forum topic: Hebron: microcosm of Israeli apartheid?
Time: 3 – 5pm, Saturday 23 June
Place: Leichhardt Town Hall

Read more about the forum, and our distinguished panel of speakers…