Press Release Archive

Today four farmers from Al-Mazra'a Al-Qibliah, Palestine, were attacked by three settler youths whilst attempting to harvest their olives near the Talmon B settlement. The attack was witnessed by members of the Brighton-Tubas Friendship and Solidarity Group. As soon as the farmers reached their groves the three settlers targeted two elderly farmers, punching them and spitting at them. The youths then chased the farmers from their land. Members of the group from Brighton were threatened and one member attempting to film the attack was hit by a settler.

Five Students from the University if Sussex took part in a visit to a
Palestinian university to strengthen links between the two universities.

Sussex University Students Union (USSU) has been twinned with Al Quds Open
University in Tubas in the West Bank since June 2007. Students from
Brighton have visited Palestine four times in an attempt to build links
with Palestinian students and break the isolation of Palestinians living
under Israeli occupation.

Palestinian students are forced to negotiate Israel military checkpoints

In Summer 2007 a small group of activists from Brighton began talking to villagers in Fasayil, a small village in the Israeli occupied Jordan Valley. The villagers said that many of their children could not go to school because Israeli military law prevented them from building one.

PRESS RELEASE - BUILDING SOLIDARITY IN THE FACE OF VIOLENCE - BRIGHTON DELEGATION RETURN FROM PALESTINE All of the ten people who have just returned from a delegation to Palestine from the Brighton-Tubas Solidarity Group, have their own unique stories to tell. In their two week visit they’ve been shot at, arrested, and discovered that produce grown on stolen Palestinian land and using child labour, is being sold in British supermarkets including Tesco’s.