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  PSC updates: http://www.palestinecampaign.org/category/psc-updates/
   
   
                                                Upcoming Events:
   
  All welcome
  Note that the date for the hustings meeting is now 23^rd April
   
  Activist social media skills
  An informal session exploring how we can use social media to grow and maximise the impact of our campaigns. Venue has Wi-Fi.  Bring your own device (laptop, ipad or smartphone)
   
  7.30pm, Tuesday 10 February
  Far From the Madding Crowd, Friars Entry (off Magdalen street)
   
  Celebrating Palestinian women
  To mark International Womens Festival Jan Chalmers will speak about the Palestinian Tapestry Project.
  7.30pm Tuesday 10 March
  Oxford Town Hall, St Aldates, Oxford
   
  International issues and the general election
  Parliamentary candidates are being invited to come along to a meeting jointly organised by Oxford PSC and other international and peace campaign organisations. Details to be confirmed.
  7.30pm Tuesday 23rd April
  Oxford Town Hall, St Aldates, Oxford
   
  Oxford PSC Annual General Meeting
  AGM where we will have a guest speaker (to be confirmed), review our activities, plan ahead and elect our team of officers.
  7.30pm Tuesday 12 May

Oxford Town Hall, St Aldates, Oxford

 

Middle East Centre, St Antony’s College

 

Fri, February 6, 17:00 – 19:00

Nissan Lecture Theatre, St Antony's College

EU Middle East Policy Framework

Dr Christian Berger (Director for North Africa, Middle East, Arabian Peninsula, Iran and Iraq, European External Action Service, Brussels)

 

Fri, February 13, 17:00 – 19:00

Middle East Centre, St Antony's College

How European Governments subcontract policy on Israel/Palestine to parliamentarians, civil society and businesses

Dr Phyllis Starkey (Former MP, and St Antony’s College)

 

Fri, February 20, 17:00 – 19:00

Nissan lecture Theatre, St Antony's

Israel-Palestine: Can Europe Save the Two-States Idea

Dr Alon Liel (Former Director General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Tel Aviv University)

 

 

 

 

Robert Wistrich – Anti-Semitism and Islamophobia: Old Fears… New Threats? Mon 16 Feb at 20:00

Mehdi Hasan challenges leading Jewish scholar Robert S. Wistrich over why he thinks criticism of Israeli policies in the Middle East is a modern manifestation of historical anti-Jewish hatred.  Is anti-Zionism the new face of anti-Semitism?  Are boycotts of Israel driven by prejudice or principle?  Is criticism of the Palestinians and the Muslim world Islamophobic? And should we take Islamophobia more seriously?

To register for this event, go to: http ://robertwistrich . eventbrite . co . uk 

 

We were sad to learn of the death of  Mike Marqusee. He had wanted to talk to us all in Oxford and twice we arranged it, but the ups and downs in his health made this not to be. http://www.theguardian.com/profile/mikemarqusee

 

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As an Oxford ant- invitation of Marin Le Pen to the Oxford Union. On this an open letter can be found here here:  http://goo.gl/forms/0AaPVWmbSM  and we have been asked to support the UAF rally with Maz Saleem speaking, taking place on 28th Jan in Oxford Town Hall and encourage members to attend, and to support the UAF protest that will take place on 5th February if Marine Le Pen’s talk goes ahead and encourage members to attend racist organisation-  we are pleased to help spread the distribution of this document https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1uPPoRhEHddvIIxfOFBUlefeYKiUXW_ZlK8xHH_v1yIs/viewform?c=0&w=1  opposing the.

We have now been asked, as one of Oxford’s anti racist organisations to make known this petition: https://www.change.org/p/the-oxford-union-we-demand-the-oxford-union-rescind-their-invitation-to-marine-le-pen-to-speak-at-the-union-on-the-70th-anniversary-of-the-liberation-of-auschwitz-and-apologise-for-the-insult-this-has-caused-to-the-memory-of-the-millions-people-kille?utm_campaign=responsive_friend_inviter_chat&utm_medium=facebook&utm_source=share_petition&recruiter=20714107

 

G continues her work as an Ecumenical Accompanier  You can find out more about the programme and read some of the reports of fellow EAs on the EAPPI website http://www.eappi.org/