Singing for Palestine

Large crowd joined in Christmas carols singing earlier tonight, 22 December'16 in Trafalgar Square in London.

Funds were raised for Amos Trust's Women of Palestine Christmas Appeal, to ensure breast-screening is available to the women of the besieged Gaza- see http://www.amostrust.org/give/women-of-palestine-appeal/

Justin Butcher http://www.justinbutcher.co.uk did a fab job conducting Choir of St Luke's Church, West Holloway, the acclaimed north London choir Vox Holloway and the members of the London NUT Choir, supported by the Holloway Brass quartet.

What a lovely way to show solidarity with Palestine and raise funds for an important health cause.

WFPSC at the St Barnabas Christmas Fayre, 4 December ’16

On Sunday the 4th we joined a well-attended community event in the St Barnabas Church in Walthamstow.
Visitors streamed in and out throughout the afternoon buying Christmas presents made by local organisations and arty residents and having cakes and hot drinks.


The link with a Christian family in Bethlehem made the event even more special. Sami Awad of the
http://www.holylandtrust.org/about-holy-land-trust.html spoke to the people attending the Fayre via a laptop which Cannon Steven Saxby carried around the Church Hall.


Steven and his family made everybody so very welcome and good time was had by all.
We had chats with so many fellow Waltham Forest residents who tried our Palestinian olive oil and zatar and acquired quantities of it, as well as Palestinian dates, Nablus soap and other Zaytoun and Palestine Solidarity Campaign produce we had on our stall.

Leyton stall today, 3 December '16

Here are a few pictures form our Palestine stall earlier today, in the wind-tunnel outside the Poundland in Leyton.

The interest and expressions of solidarity were hearth warming. A woman came over who spoke with tears in her eyes about her recent trip to pray in Al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem and the subsequent tour of the occupied West Bank.

Another woman told us that she spend time in the West Bank during the First Intifada and described her feelings of desperation that the atrocities in Palestine still continue to this day.

There was lots of interest in the Hewlett Packard boycott and everybody we spoke to was surprised to learn about HP's involvement in the Israeli occupation of Palestine.

Out next stall will take place in the Walthamstow Town Centre, near Library,

on Saturday 10 December
11.30-14.00.

Hope to see you there. All welcome.

Join us at Leyton stall tomorrow & at Christmas Fayre on Sunday

Join Jim and Rada at WFPSC stall outside TKMaxx near the Leyton tube station.

We will be there with our Palestine publicity materials and Zaytoun produce tomorrow,

Saturday the 3rd December
between 11.30 - 14.00.




Also, we will take our stall to the St Barnabas Christmas Fayre taking place on this

Sunday the 4th December
between 13.00-17.00
Foster Hall, Wellesley Road, E17 8QY


Come and mingle with the locals at this traditional and well attended community event and do your Christmas shopping while supporting local organisations.

We hope to have a skype link with a Palestinian family in Bethlehem and share festive feelings with them.

The pictures are form WFPSC last year's stall at St Barnabas Christmas Fayre.