Category Archives: Protest

Cultural event, Protest

Protest and events

As well as a weekly protest and celebration of Palestinian resistance every Friday at the train station, we have

  • a march to the mayoral office on Tuesday 12th November,
  • a trip to Elbit in Shenstone to be in solidarity with those demanding an end to the Israeli arms companies activities in the UK and on Saturday an opportunity to join in a concert with SEEDS in Nablus.
  • a joint march with XR on Saturday 16th during the day and in the evening an online event based at the Broomhall Centre with SEEDS in Nablus

See flyers below

Event, Protest

Sheffield stands with Palestine

A magnificent Sheffield Demo on Saturday October 19th

Over 500 people marched from Endcliffe Park to the Town Hall to display their outrage at the continued apathy from politicians with regard to the genocide in Palestine.

Rally speeches are available here – https://tellthetruthsheffield.org/

National solidarity demo

On 5th October 2 coaches from Sheffield and Chesterfield went to the national demo. A compilation is on Instagram here

Every Friday we gather outside Sheffield train station. This is an important shout for Palestine ensuring that while the media will look elsewhere for ‘disastertainment’ we keep Palestine in our hearts and in our minds. It is greeted by amazing support from motorists.

Friday 4th October

As well as our protest outside, we had a station sit-in as well to and made it clear we stand with Lebanon too.

Event, Protest

Actions for September 13th and 14th

Come and join us on this short family friendly ride round the city centre raising the flag and chanting for Palestine.

We will be starting at the bottom of Cemetery Rd, behind Waitrose, at 11.45am, and finishing at Nursery St Pocket Park by 1pm.

For those who wish to join in, there’s also an event starting at 1pm at the Pocket Park to commemorate those who disappeared during the Pinochet regime following the coup in Chile 50 years ago.

Lucha Continua!

Protest

Protesting Tour of Britain

Really good turnout to our call to protest the inclusion of Israeli Premier Tech team in the Tour of Britain.

It is a disgrace that Sheffield City Council (Sheffield City Council) and the Mayoral Authority have allowed this to go ahead while the International Court of Justice has declared Israels occupation and West Bank settlements illegal.

While the Israeli government continues to back its International sports teams in order to ‘sportswash’ its crimes, it does everything it can to deny Palestinian participation in sport. Arrest, torture and denial of travel permits to Palestinian sports people are commonplace.

It is no coincidence that the most famous Palestinian cycling club is the Gaza Sunbirds, started by a Palestinian Olympic hopeful whose leg was shot to pieces by the IDF. Gaza Sunbirds is a para cycling team which has shown incredible strength in delivering emergency aid to displaced people on Gaza and even greater resilience in having a team train abroad to get near fit for the para Olympics.

Event, Protest

Israeli team should be excluded from Tour of Britain

The Tour of Britain comes to Sheffield next week. So many of us, keen cyclists or outdoors enthusiasts will be excited by Sheffield being chosen to take part in this prestigous event.

But this is tempered by the inclusion of the Israeli backed Israel Premier Tech team, owned by Canadian billionaire, Sylvan Adam, who speak of this as an unashamedly “Zionist project”.

Meanwhile Palestinian sportspeople are excluded from taking part in international events. They have been shot, murdered or denied travel and infrastructure has been destroyed making organised sport all but impossible in Palestine.

What can you do?

Write to the tour organisers

Join our protest

Gaza sunbirds

But resilient as ever Palestinians find a way! Alaa Al-Dali an international cyclist was shot in 2018 by the IDF started the Gaza Sunbirds.

Cultural event, Event, Protest

Actions for the weekend 16th 17th 18th August

4pm Sunday 18th August – Showroom Cinema

GAZA SURF CLUB (rated 18)

(Ages 18-26: £5 with photo ID)

Book tickets via www.linktr.ee/sheffieldPSC

Ibrahim, an industrious 23-year-old is in love with surfing and wants to go to Hawaii, to learn more about the industry and the craft of making boards for gifted and enthusiastic surfing friends including Sabah, a 15 year old young woman.

The boards they have are home-made and fragile.

Ibrahim has already been rejected five times for a visa and has spent thousands of dollars in the process, continuing to surf until finally …

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Stay for a Q&A after the film with young people from Sheffield’s Palestinian community.

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Actions for weekend 9th and 10th August

Thanks to all our supporters and anti racist campaigners to have chased the fascists off our streets this week.

Despite the far-right attacks, it’s very important to continue with our street presence in support of the Palestinians who are facing the Israeli criminal killing machine every moment of every day.

We can’t and will not let the racists and Zionists win. Without you and people like you worldwide, the Palestinians will have no voice.

PLEASE attend our vigil this coming Friday 08 August outside Sheffield at 5 pm. While we are confident this will be peaceful, we will have stewards for our vigil; we can stand together and protect each other.

The success of this vigil will no doubt empower all activists and send a strong message that our pro-Palestinian activism will not stop!

Saturday 10th August, Join the Palestine Bloc

As important as the vigil on Friday is to ensure we make clear on Saturday our streets are not a parade ground for fascists. Please join the anti fascists demonstration on Saturday in Sheffield.