Past Events
Right to Education
Monday 24th:
Palestinian students speak out & ‘Jerusalem: East side story’ documentary showing
Representatives from Palestinian universities, including UMSU’s twin university – An-Najah in Nablus. Followed by documentary showing
7.30pm, Council chambes, Students Union
+ Palestinian food served in the International café for lunch (across the road from the union)
Tuesday 25th:
‘Palestinian Monologues’ play
7pm, Council Chambers, Students Union
Wednesday 26th:
Interactive Art Exhbition
12pm, Next to Students union
All welcome … hope to see you there!
The Gaza Ghetto
A talk with -Suzanne Weiss – who has written and spoken widely on defence of the Palestinians, including from her perspective as a Holocaust survivor. Based in Toronto, Canada, she is a member of the Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid and of Not In Our Name(NION): Jewish Voices Opposing Zionism. She is the author of a pamphlet, Anti-Semitism, Zionism, and the Defense of Palestinian Rights.
Chaired by: Mohammed – a Gazan student at the University of Manchester
Thursday 13th Nov 2008, 7pm
Room LG12
Samuel Alexander building
(behind the SU)
University of Manchester
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The Gaza Crisis (co-hosted with UMSU Amnesty)
A talk by Musheir el Farra –all are welcome
Wednesday, 8 October, 7pm
Council Chambers (top floor)
University of Manchester Students Union
Steve Biko’s Building
Oxford Road
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Vigil: Sixty Black Balloons for Sixty Years of Nakba
May 15th 4:30 to 6:00
Balloon Release at 5:30
Piccadilly Gardens
Israel refers to May 15th, 1948 as its “Day of Independence”, but for Palestinian it symbolizes Al-Nakba (the Catastrophe), the dispossession, displacement, and uprooting of over 720,000 Palestinians from their homes in what then became Israel.
Planting an Olive Tree of Peace from Palestine
Friday 9th May: 5.30pm – meeting behind the University of Manchester Students Union
Last year the University of Manchester Students Union, with an overwhelming majority, voted to accept the invitation to plant an Olive Tree by An-Najah University. This was part of the twinning between both the Manchester and An-Najah Student’s Unions.
The twinning with An-Najah has had a huge profile and been of a great success in supporting a Palestinian’s right to education. This summer several Manchester Students are visiting An-Najah and studying there as part of the twinning. Some of the twinning activities have included debates held over video link and articles from An-Najah which are published in Manchester Student Direct. The campaign has been a vibrant and lively one which has involved many students.
Al-Nakba, 60 years on…
film screening and presentation by Israeli director Eyal Sivan
Arts Lecture Theatre, Samuel Alexander
Wednesday, 23 April,6:30 pm
Political prisoners and the Palestinian liberation movement
a meeting with Eyad Burnat & George Rishmaw
Council chambers (top floor), UMSU, Steve Biko’s building
Oxford Road, Manchester
Monday, 21 April, 2:30
Anti-Apartheid Week
Monday 11/2
Photo Exhibition: Israeli Apartheid, 11am– 4pm, Biko’s Café, UMSU
Tuesday 12/2
Public lecture: Married to Another Man, Israel’s Dilemma in Palestine” by Dr. Ghada Al Karmi, 5.30pm, LG12, Samuel Alexander bldg.
Wednesday 13/2
Eyewitness account by Khaled Mudallal & Rose from ISM,2.30pm,Lecture Theatre3,Geoffrey Manton,MMU
Thursday 14/2
Photo Exhibition: Israeli Apartheid, 11am– 4pm, Geoffrey Manton building
Gig: Cry Freedom, Club Academy 2, University of Manchester Students’ Union, Steve Biko’s Building, 7.30pm
Friday 15/2
Film showing: Devine Intervention, 4pm, MR1, UMSU
The third Tom Hurndall Memorial Lecture -
Ilan Pappe on ‘The Dispossession of Palestine: Sixty Years On’
Thursday, January, 17th, 7 pm
MMU, Manton Lecture Theatre 2
Finkelstein on Palestine
A lecture by Dr. Norman Finkelstein on the roots of conflict and the prospect for Peace.
Monday, January 21, 2008 – 7:30pm
Academy 2, University of Manchester Students’ Union
Oxford Road
Manchester
PSC & Action Palestine-MMU Social
Chorlton Irish Social Club, High Lane, Chorlton, Manchester
Fri 7th Dec 7:30PM
£10/£5 reducations – all proceeds to building: Machester’s DAY for Palestine, June 7th 2008
The Crisis in Palestine – What Can We Do?
Presented by Musheir El-Farra
MMU
Thursday, Dec 6, 07 – 7pm
Constructing Peace – with Jeff Halper and Salim Shawamreh
Saturday, Nov 24, 07 – 1pm
(UMSU)
Fighting for Palestine Students’ Conference
(Sat 10th Nov, 12-6)
UMSU
UMSU Solidarity with Palestine Week 5-11th NovMon- 5th Nov
“Occupation 101” Documentary hosted by OpenMedia
7.30pm Main debating Hall UMSU.Tue- 6th Nov
Banner Painting
Meet at union Foyer at 1pmWed- 7th Nov
“Chest Doctor in Palestine” hosted by Medsin
6pm, Theatre B, Roscoe Building, Number 53 in Campus Map
Thu- 8th Nov
Debate with An-Najah University Student via weblink
“Democracy in the Middle East”
9pm, Mansfield Cooper Building – Room G.19
Can Palestine ever be free? Hosted by SWSS
5.30pm MR4
Fri- 9th Nov
Art exhibition
4.30pm
“Paradise Now” film showing
5.30pm, MR1
Sat-10th Nov
Meal with local Palestinian community,
with guest speaker “Ismael Patel”
6pm, Council champers.
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Last year our students’ union voted to support the right to education for Palestinians and to twin with An-Najah University in the West Bank city of Nablus. Palestinian education has been severely hindered by blanket curfews, roadblocks, the Apartheid Wall and frequent assassinations and arrests of students and teachers. The cumulative effects of these measures have put the future of many Palestinian universities at grave risk.
The twinning has been vibrant, with debates held over web link, articles from An-Najah students published in student direct here and a few Manchester students making the journey to Palestine it really has felt like the two students’ unions are twinned.
The 9th-16th Nov is the 5th International Week of Action against the Apartheid Wall called for by the Palestinian Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign and since then endorsed by various movements, groups, networks, and international civil society conferences.
Our union has decided to run this “Solidarity with Palestine Week” to coincide with the International Week of Action against the Apartheid Wall; to join in this struggle in order to put to words into action, to make rhetoric into reality for the Palestinian people in their struggle for Freedom and Justice amidst the Israeli plans of bantustanization and expulsion.
John Pilger film screening – Palestine Is Still The Issue
Wednesday, October 31, 2007 – 3:00pm
Mabel Tylecote Building Room 314
Oxford Road
Manchester
The experience of a Palestinian Student at an Israeli University
Conference Suite, 3rd Floor,
Manchester Metropolitan University Union
Oxford Rd, Manchester
Thur 4th 1.00pm
A New Chance for Palestinian Agricultural Producers presentation by Nasser from PFTA
Council Chambers (top floor)
Manchester University Students Union “Steve Biko Building”
Oxford Rd, Manchester
Wed 3rd Oct 5.30pm
What’s Really Happening in Palestine?
Meeting with Simon Assaf.
Hosted by Greater Manchester Stop the War and UMSU as part of the “No More War Teach-In”
Council Chambers (top floor),
Manchester University Students Union “Steve Biko Building”
Oxford Rd, Manchester
Sat 29th Sep, 3.15pm – 4.30pm
Why was the Palestinian under19 denied visa to the UK?
With Palestinian International Player Morad Fareed
Friday 31st Aug 2007, 6pm
Manchester University Students Union Council Chambers (top floor)
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Palestinian Cultural Evening and ActionPalestine Social
Wednesday, June 6 – 7:00pm – 10:00pm
Club Underground, North Campus Students Union
A Night of Dance, Poetry art, food and stories.
Nakbah59 stunt
15th May 12pm
The Right to Education in Palestine
With Dr Said Abu Hijleh, Public Relations Officer Al Najah University.
Wednesday, May 16 -7:00pm – 8:00pm
Friends Meeting House
Mount Street
Manchester
An Najah Students Speak out
University of Manchester Students union
Room MR1
Tues 24th
5.30pm
Speakers:
Nehad Khanfar. Palestinian student from An najah University studying in dundee on scholarship from an najah. He spoke about the effect of the occupation on students and the benefits of twinning with Palestinian Universities and especially An najah.
Yael Oren Kahn. Israeli campaigner from twinning group Islington Friends of Yibna who spoke about the benefits of twinning and her views on the importance of twinning with Palestinian Universities and organization
Palestinian food at the International Food Fair
Action Palestine stall for some great Palestinian Food
Monday, March 12 – 12:00pm – 3:00pm
Catholic Chaplaincy (next to stopford, opposite union)
Action Palestine Week 26th Feb – 4th March
Mon 26/2 – Palestine Documentary showing hosted by OpenMedia,
7.30pm Council Chambers, UMSU
Tue 27/2 – Live from Palestine
Video link with Dr Alaa Yousef and students from An-Najah University
1pm, MR1
Tue 27/2 – The Right to Education, meeting with Ismail Patel,
5.30pm MR4, UMSU
Wed 28/2 – Art Exhibition,
12-2pm MR1, UMSU
Thur 1/3 – The Myths of Zionism hosted by Manchester SWSS,
5.30pm MR1, UMSU
October’s Cry: More Than Six Years On
Meeting with Jamila Asleh
Monday 5th February 6.00pm
Council Chambers, Top Floor Student’s Union
Palestine Cultural Evening
Wed 29th Nov06 at 5pm,
in Burlington Rooms
Food, Art, Music, Poetry, Dance.
The International Day for Solidarity with Palestinians 29/11
A mock wall was put on campus from 12-14 to raise awareness about the apartheid wall in the west bank, passing students were given leaflets about the wall as well as flyers for the cultural night.
What is Really Happening in Palestine
Speakers:
Amro Bilal, Campaigns Officer Liverpool Guild of Students
Judith Keshet, Jews for Justice for Palestine, Checkpoint Watch
(Short documentary) Stolen Youth
K. Quzmar, Defence Children International, live web link from Palestine