BDS IS MORE IMPORTANT NOW THAN EVER

Posted on November 28, 2022 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national, Perspectives and tagged anti-semitism, Apartheid, BDS, ben gvir, Benjamin Netanyahu, displacement, featured, genocide, israel, jenin, Knesset, mahmoud al-saadi, meir kahane, monday.com, neutrality, norwegian refugee council, palestine, shireen abu akleh, terrorism.

by Sarah Edgcumbe

Between January 1^st 2022 and 25^th November 2022, Israeli forces killed 199 Palestinian civilians, including 47 children, and at least 15 women. Perhaps the most high profile killing occurred in May 2022, when Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was shot in the head by Israeli Occupying Forces (IOF) whilst covering a story in the Occupied West Bank. She was wearing a press vest at the time, marking her clearly identifiable as both a journalist and a target. Others present at the time, including a colleague who was injured, made it clear that there were no Palestinian fighters near them when they were targeted by direct fire. This incident was, in effect, a continuation of Israel’s deliberate policy of targeting journalists as a means of shutting down any reporting which can contradict the Israeli state narrative – and, once more, Israel escaped without repercussions.

POLITICAL ACROBATICS, AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL, AND ISRAELI OPPRESSION

Posted on February 5, 2022 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national, Perspectives and tagged Amnesty International, anti semitism, Apartheid, featured, Gaza, genocide, immigration, israel, media, neutrality, NGO, occupied palestinian territories, palestine, politics, racism, scott morrison, tyair lapid, UN, united nations, West Bank.

by Sarah Edgcumbe

“A disgraceful attack on the Jewish state” is how one conservative American publication responded to Amnesty International’s most recent report on the 2^nd February. The Amnesty report, which bears the title ‘Israel’s Apartheid Against Palestinians: Cruel System of Domination and Crime Against Humanity’ was published by Amnesty on the 1^st February this year – predictably attracting the wrath of Israel whilst generating much controversy. The Israeli government responded as maturely as ever, with Foreign Minister Yair Lapid alleging that “Instead of seeking facts, Amnesty quotes lies spread by terrorist organizations.” Meanwhile, a range of wilfully ignorant journalists and public figures have labelled the report “anti-semitic”. Here we go again.

NORWICH SHOWS SOLIDARITY WITH PALESTINE

Posted on June 12, 2021 by Norwich Radical in Community, Inter|national, Student and tagged Adat Yeshua Synagogue, Angela Davis, antisemitism, AOC, Apartheid, BDS, colonialism, Cromer, decolonisation, ethnic cleansing, featured, Gaza, genocide, Great Yarmouth, IHRA, imperialism, islamophobia, Jacob Ecclestone, Jerusalem, Jerusalem Declaration, justice, Kill the Bill, liberation, Malcolm X, Nelson Mandela, norwich, palestine, Palestine solidarity, Palestine Solidarity Campaign, peace, ramallah, Rashida Tlaib, settler colonialism, Sheikh jarrah, solidarity, tiktok, UEA, UEA Palestinian Solidarity Campaign, UEA SU, Welsh language, West Bank, zionism.

By Sean Meleady and Callum James

CN: death, violence, antisemitism, Islamophobia, colonialism, racism, ethnic cleansing

Norwich, like many cities and towns across Britain, has seen a number of Palestinian solidarity protests in recent weeks. These protests came in the wake of the latest series of aerial bombardments between Israel and Hamas-controlled Gaza, which resulted in the deaths of 256 Palestinians and 12 Israelis, according to UN figures. The spark for this recent escalation of violence occurred when an Israeli court greenlit eviction proceedings of Palestinian families in the Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood of East Jerusalem, and subsequent peaceful protests were brutally repressed, culminating in attacks by Israeli police on the holy site of Al-Aqsa Mosque during Ramadan, which elicited international condemnation.

“NEUTRALITY”: A TOOL OF SYSTEMATIC MURDER AND OPPRESSION

Posted on May 15, 2021 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national, Perspectives and tagged al aqsa, allah akbar, Apartheid, conflict, east Jerusalem, featured, Gaza, Hamas, israel, Nablus, Nakba, naqba, neocolonialism, Netanyahu, neutrality, palestine, Palestinians, ramallah, save gaza, settler colonialism, two state, uk, UNICEF, US, West Bank.

by Sarah Edgcumbe

TW: settler colonialism, violence, war

Media outlets are once again decrying the “conflict” between Israel and Palestine, framing Hamas actions as “terrorism”, whilst conversely describing Israel’s as “military action”. At the time of writing, Hamas rockets had killed eight in Israel, while Israeli aerial bombardment of Gaza had killed 122 Palestinians (including 31 children) and injured 830 others. The imbalance in power, resources and media discourse is beyond belief.

RELEASE ALL PALESTINIAN POLITICAL PRISONERS

Posted on March 2, 2021 by Norwich Radical in Arts, Perspectives and tagged Apartheid, art, artivisim, BDS, cartoon, creative, featured, from the river to the sea, illustration, israel, Netanyahu, original art, palestine, Palestinian, political prisoner, rebel politik.

by Arun Kumar / Rebel Politik

A raised fist in the foreground is chained in a wrist shackle with the image of Israeli flag superimposed over the shackle bracelet. Two raised fist holding Palestinian resistance scarf (with black-and-white keffiyeh pattern and Palestine flag on white fabric) on either side of the chained wrist are breaking the chains of shackles. In the background, two more raised fists are breaking the chains attached to the shackled fist in foreground.
The bracelet of the wrist shackle begin to break.
Release all Palestinian Political Prisoners text is written on top part of the image. The word, Palestine, has image of the Palestinian flag superimposed over

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A raised fist in the foreground is chained in a wrist shackle with the image of Israeli flag superimposed over the shackle bracelet. Two raised fist holding Palestinian resistance scarf (with black-and-white keffiyeh pattern and Palestine flag on white fabric) on either side of the chained wrist are breaking the chains of shackles. In the background, two more raised fists are breaking the chains attached to the shackled fist in foreground.
The bracelet of the wrist shackle begin to break.
Release all Palestinian Political Prisoners text is written on top part of the image. The word, Palestine, has image of the Palestinian flag superimposed over it.

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REBEL KITES

Posted on June 30, 2019 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national, Perspectives and tagged Apartheid, arrest, arts, BDS, Benjamin Netanyahu, Burin, Burin Kite Festival, canvas, detention, featured, festival, Gaza, Ghassan Najjar, hebrew, human rights, IOF, israel, Jordan, kites, Lebanon, occupation, palestine, racism, refugee, resist, settler, Woody Morris.

by Sarah Edgcumbe

“We are fighting for freedom. We are fighting for our smiles. We don’t care what the occupation thinks about us or what they will do. This is an act of defiance.”

The certainty of retribution implied within the above statement seems exaggerative for merely flying kites, but this is the reality in Burin, a village that holds fast among beautiful rolling hills in the countryside of the northern West Bank, and which is also surrounded by three illegal Israeli settlements. Centuries old, with a population of nearly three thousand, the villagers of Burin have long cared for this land. They’ve raised their families here for generations, celebrated births and marriages, supported each other, grown and harvested ancient olive trees, with roots that symbolize the hundreds of years of Palestinian toil that connect the people to this land. This land that Israel wants so badly but will never have. Continue Reading

RHODESIA IN NORFOLK AND THE DANGERS OF BRITAIN’S IMPERIAL AMNESIA

Posted on January 21, 2019 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national, Perspectives and tagged Apartheid, Britain, colonialism, empire, featured, flag, imperialism, independence, norfolk, norwich, racism, rhodesia, Sladden, Southrepps, UDI, white supremacy.

by Josh Doble

The unassuming small parish village of Southrepps, twenty-two miles north of Norwich, is the surprising location for a memorial to the former pariah state of Southern Rhodesia/Rhodesia – now Zimbabwe. This is not necessarily a well-known site – it was stumbled across during a summer cycle – yet it represents an important space to demonstrate the wider political environment in rural Norfolk, and the area’s connections to right-wing pressure groups further afield. The memorial itself is opposite Southrepps Hall and is made up of an avenue of Tilia Cordata – small-leaf lime trees – and three flag poles hosting the Union Jack, the Rhodesian flag and the original Southern Rhodesian flag. The Sladden family are the ‘Lords’ and ‘Ladies’ of Southrepps Hall and have a close history with Rhodesia, historically being settlers themselves. It would appear that the Sladden family built the memorial to commemorate their connections to the former country and to celebrate its memory.

PALESTINE SOLIDARITY: COMPULSORY DEFENCE OF HUMAN RIGHTS, NOT ANTI-SEMITISM

Posted on August 16, 2018 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national, Perspectives and tagged Addameer, anti-semitism, Apartheid, Arabic, arrest, B’Tselem, BDS, Benjamin Netanyahu, British, detention, discrimination, featured, Gaza, hebrew, human rights, IHRA, IOF, israel, Jeremy Cobryn, Jewish Voice for Peace, language, law, Nablus, occupation, palestine, racism, testimony, torture, UN, witness.

by Sarah Edgcumbe

CW: torture

May 2017 saw Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli detention uniting to take part in a hunger strike. Every Friday during the strike, street protests were held in solidarity and various other events took place under the motto ‘salt and water’. Some of my friends from Nablus, viewing horses as inextricable from ‘non-horsey’ aspects of life (their lives are absorbed by riding horses; taking selfies with horses; racing horses; breeding horses; bathing horses…) demonstrated solidarity non-violently by riding their horses into Nablus city centre, carrying Palestinian flags and calling for solidarity with the prisoners.Continue Reading

WHITENESS, PALESTINE AND ‘THE JEWISH STATE’

Posted on January 10, 2018 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged Apartheid, Ashkenazi, Australia, BDS, Benjamin Netanyahu, canada, colonialism, culture, detention, Emmanuel Nahshon, Ethiopia, featured, Holot, identity, imperialism, income gap, indigeneous, israel, Jewish, migrant, Mizrahim, native, neocolonialism, palestine, racism, refugee, Richard Seymour, South Africa, Susan Abulhawa, systemic racism, two state, white supremacy, whiteness, zionism.

by Scott McLaughlan

Israel’s population is 74.7% Jewish, 20.8% Arab and 4.5% “other”. According to the latest population statistics, “those of European and American ancestry make up about 2.2 million (36%) of the Jewish population, while Africans fill out another 14.5% and Asians are 11.2%.”

That being said, there are also currently around 50,000 African Migrants in Israel, most of whom are from Eritrea or Sudan. Under the UN Refugee Convention (signed by Israel in 1954) no migrant can be forcibly returned to their country of origin. Israel currently abides by this convention, but systematically refuses to grant asylum to refugees, irrespective of their status and the potential danger and persecution they have fled.

Israel’s Foreign Ministry spokesman, Emmanuel Nahshon, recently spewed out the reason for the impasse: Asylum seekers threaten Israel’s identity. The Israeli cabinet has now approved the morally repugnant Holot migrant detention centre, in Israel’s Negev desert, for closure. As a result, two options were laid on the table: step up deportations or jail those who refuse to leave Israel.Continue Reading

UEA: BANKING ON IMMORALITY

Posted on December 8, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Student and tagged Apartheid, banking, Barclays Bank, BDS, boycott, climate change, climate research, Dakota Access Pipeline, divest, Divest Barclays, divestment, Elbit Systems, environment, environmentalism, Ethical Consumer, ethical consumption, ethical investment, ethics, extreme fossil fuels, finance, fossil free, Fossil Free UEA, fossil fuels, fracking, Green, investment, israel, Israeli-Palestine conflict, morality, norwich, occupation, palestine, people and planet, profit, profiteering, Ryedale, sanctions, Sheffield Students' Union, student money, students' unions, Third Energy, tuition fees, UEA, UEA SU, war, yorkshire.

by Robyn Banks

If it’s not one thing it’s another with UEA. Weeks after their announcement that they’ve finally divested from fossil fuel companies, People and Planet UEA have discovered that the university has nearly £23 million invested with Barclays Bank. This won’t be particularly surprising to most – there is a branch on campus after all – but it shows the university’s ongoing decision to disregard the unfolding environmental and ethical situation of the world it operates in.

Apartheid

BDS IS MORE IMPORTANT NOW THAN EVER

by Sarah Edgcumbe

POLITICAL ACROBATICS, AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL, AND ISRAELI OPPRESSION

by Sarah Edgcumbe

NORWICH SHOWS SOLIDARITY WITH PALESTINE

By Sean Meleady and Callum James

“NEUTRALITY”: A TOOL OF SYSTEMATIC MURDER AND OPPRESSION

by Sarah Edgcumbe

RELEASE ALL PALESTINIAN POLITICAL PRISONERS

REBEL KITES

RHODESIA IN NORFOLK AND THE DANGERS OF BRITAIN’S IMPERIAL AMNESIA

PALESTINE SOLIDARITY: COMPULSORY DEFENCE OF HUMAN RIGHTS, NOT ANTI-SEMITISM

WHITENESS, PALESTINE AND ‘THE JEWISH STATE’

UEA: BANKING ON IMMORALITY

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