A group of Sheffield residents from different backgrounds – Palestinian, British, secular as well as observant,  Jewish, Muslim and Christian – and will be setting up a #ceasefirenow camp at the top of Turner Hill in Meersbrook Park from 6pm on New Year’s Eve to half past midnight. 

It is to remind everyone, on this new year, that, while we are wishing each other a happy, peaceful and healthy twelve months ahead, the people of Gaza are undergoing a genocide at the hands of the Israeli State; it is criminal to remain silent in the face of this.

Please pay a visit, bring candles of hope, a spirit of peace and a deep passion for justice for Palestinian people. There will be short (10-15 minute) mini-events on each hour between 6 and midnight. 

We will start off with a quiet meditation and reflection and we will end with the power and passion of dabke dancing to launch our resistance to the genocide in the new year.

In between we will have Palestinian poems and singing. A full timetable will be available on our facebook and here on new years eve.

Please come and join in all or any of these events.

We are demanding:

• an immediate ceasefire and an end to Israeli occupation
• immediate permission for necessary aid at scale to avoid the starvation of people in Gaza
• that Sheffield City Council declare Sheffield an Israeli Apartheid Free Zone until such time as the occupation of Palestine has ceased. Sign Israeli Apartheid Free Zone pledge here

Sheffield Ceasefire Now Camp

Saturday 16th Sheffield Boycott Israel Action: 

Assemble at 11.00 am outside the Israac Centre, 54 Cemetery Road, S11 8FP  (it’s between the Waitrose petrol station and the back of the Waitrose car park) for a mobile boycott action, walking around the town centre and ending in front of the Anglican Catherdal (arriving there at approximately 1.00pm with a very short rally).

Bring your Palestinian flags!

Israel both fears and hates the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement – because it’s global, grassroots and effective.

Our boycott event emphasises the power we all have in our everyday lives to reject Israel, its war crimes and land theft by the simple act of boycotting all Israeli products. 

FRIDAY NOVEMBER 24th

SATURDAY 25th NOVEMBER ACTION.

FOR THOSE WHO WISH TO GO T0 LONDON BOOK YOUR COACH HERE. (Details of Sheffield Rally to follow.)

LONDON COACH details –

• Depart 8:00 AM – From outside the Hubs, Paternoster Row Sheffield, S1 2QQ
• Return 9:30 PM.
• We will leave London at 4pm from a point agreed with the driver
• The coach tickets cost £25 waged and £10 unwaged
• We are encouraging people who can to pay a £10 donation so we can keep the price of tickets down.
• PLEASE BOOK EARLY

NOVEMBER 26th

Please buy your tickets here

Nov 29th is UN International Day of Solidarity with Palestinian People. How they need that now!

Prices of food in Gaza are now extremely high. The work Musheir has done on the ground has enabled volunteers to access supplies and so far 1831 families have had parcels of food or blankets or clothes.

Every £400 pounds raised will feed 1000 people with rice and lentils.

On the day of the vote in the commons, Sheffield PSC supporters marched from Louise Haigh’s to Paul Blomfield’s offices demanding their vote be for a ceasefire. Paul Blomfield’s offices were shuttered up

Please join us in Sheffield if you are not going to the march in London.

We will start at Ellesmere Green (see below for bus routes) and follow the following route:

Ellesmere Green, Ellesmere Rd, Burngreave Rd, Spital Hill, Wicker, Lady’s Bridge, Waingate, Haymarket, Fitzalan Sq, Esperanto Place
Arundel Gate, Tudor Sq, Surrey St for
Town hall Rally: 12 noon

Bus routes for Ellesmere Green:

Ellesmere Green is on Burngreave Rd, just outside the City centre.
Lots of buses from all over the city stop there: 1, 2a, 5, 32, 75, 76, 83, 88, 97, 98. 20 minute walk from the City centre.