By Joe Burns, Commission member The Commission part-sponsored the Leeds Palestinian Film Festival event at Wheeler Hall on 30 November. Rather than an individual film, this event showed several short films. The connecting thread for them was that in the previous 12 months, despite immense difficulties, there have been two film festivals held within Gaza itself. […]
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Gaza Ceasefire & UK arms to Israel
At a recent demonstration calling for a ceasefire, Robert Cohen (A Leeds-based blogger & activist) gave the following speech which I thought worth repeating here is full.My name is Robert Cohen and I’m here as a member of West Yorkshire Jews Against Israeli Apartheid.Members of our group have been marching here every week. We carry the […]