The APAN Annual Dinner is our major fundraiser for the year, and a wonderful opportunity to gather with others to support justice for Palestine.

The evening will include entertainment, an auction and raffle. 

Early bird tickets are available until the 8 August.  We are also offering discounted tables of 10, and tickets for pensioners and students.

As the Kushner lead Bahrain workshop begins, diplomats jointly warn against Trump’s partisanship, which goes against the grain of the international community, and damages any prospects for real peace.

Excerpts from the letter include:

Under President Trump, the United States appears to have decided to turn away from its longstanding goal of achieving a two-state solution, an approach that Australia and the great majority of the international community have supported for the past 25 years.

What is now obvious to us all – is that Israel simply has not been prepared to entertain the notion of the existence of a viable independent Palestinian state alongside Israel.

For our own reputation and in recognition of our national interests, Australia should not support a United States initiative which excludes the Palestinians and blatantly excuses Israel from an eventual requirement to make the compromises necessary for peace.

Trump proposal misses the mark – Palestinians need justice, not charity

The announcement by Kushner of a financial injection to Palestine without a political framework is naive and dangerous, said the Australia Palestine Advocacy Network.

“Palestinians have the education, knowledge and skills to be the masters of their own development,” said Bishop George Browning, President of the Australia Palestine Advocacy Network.

“What is required is a political plan for self determination that in turn, will put in place the foundation for economic development, not a US business plan of economic bribery rewarding Israel’s illegal occupation. A fist full of dollars will never buy their political freedom, dignity, equality, or community,” Bishop Browning said.

In Cinemas

The reports on Sarah and Saleem
From 25 May, Palace cinemas nationally
Sarah is Israeli and runs a café in West Jerusalem. Saleem is a Palestinian delivery man from East Jerusalem. Despite being worlds apart, Sarah and Saleem risk everything as they embark on an illicit affair with potentially catastrophic consequences.

“When powerful interest groups succeed in suppressing facts and opinions that they find embarrassing, they deprive Australians of their right to information.”

This must read piece by APAN Vice-President, Bassam Dally on the recent decision by Melissa Parke, Labor candidate for Curtin, to step down. “When powerful interest groups succeed in suppressing facts and opinions that they find embarrassing, they deprive Australians of their right to information.”

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