Professor Ilan Pappe addresses an audience at Sheffield Hallam University on Monday 20th January.  He makes the point that Trump may be more energetic in his anti Palestinian stance but essentially the  pro Zionist approach taken by America is systemic and not dependent on a single person.

Sheffield’s cinema Palestino film season has been a fixture for 8 years now. This year we are showing 3000 Nights, an award winning film set in a Israeli women’s prison  contratsing the britality of her treatment with the care given to new life and community

We are also showing a documentary by Hind Shoufani about her father, Elias Shoufani, academic, activist and exile. Winner of Best Non-European Documentary at the European Independent Film Festival, Paris  this film is a personal, poetic and political archive and interview journey to discover family history.

More about these films is here;

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Deputy Mayor, Anne Murphy, welcomes the Lajee dancers to Sheffield. Later enjoying pizzza in Endlciffe park.

More photos here

What better image can there be of cultural resistance to occupation than dancing under the separation wall. In spite of the occupation, destruction of civil life and countless barriers to cultural engagement,  Palestine, Palestinians and their culture does not go away, or become invisible.

Please give these young peole the warmest possible welcome to Sheffield and see the Lajee dancers next Saturday