SOAS Palestine Society

14/01/2022

*UPCOMING EVENT* Excellent event coming up for those wanting to be more active for Palestine!

Sign up to attend the event here: https://bit.ly/3Fo4fwY

21/11/2021

08/03/2021

07/08/2020

Official Statement:

SOAS Palestine Society has been at the forefront of educating students about Palestine and campaigning for BDS in the UK, working closely with staff, academics, and the student community for many years. In particular, it organised the "Israeli Aparheid Week" for over a decade.

As part of our campaigning work, we continue to lobby SOAS University to cut all ties with Israeli academic institutions that are complicit in the subjugation of the Palestinians. In particular, we have demanded that SOAS find alternative ways to the year abroad for Hebrew instruction that are consistent with the SOAS BDS referendum (2015) and the university's declared commitments to de-colonisation.

In the summer of 2019, SOAS Palestine Society organised a letter signed by dozens of SOAS academics to be sent to the SOAS Academic Board making these demands. The Board decided in June 2019 to terminate its agreement with Hebrew University and instead to offer SOAS students Hebrew instruction in collaboration with Haifa University.

We were unable to view this decision as a victory, as we regard both institutions to be equally complicit in Israel’s occupation and oppression of Palestinian people, and believe that the fight must continue until SOAS is no longer affiliated with any complicit universities. SOAS's decision falls short of complying with the BDS referendum that requires an academic boycott of Israel. Although 73 per cent of SOAS staff and students backed the academic boycott in 2015, SOAS management is yet to comply with the will of the SOAS community.

We continue, as always, to campaign and work closely with student societies in universities across the country to strengthen the BDS movement to enact meaningful long-lasting change across all UK university campuses. We thank the scores of student activists and staff who have contributed over the years, within SOAS and beyond, to these efforts. Only building upon such sustained and collective hard-work can justice for Palestine be achieved.

05/08/2020

We are all in shock witnessing the massive explosion that happened at the port of Beirut on 4 August 2020. The extent of the damages is devastating. Our people in Lebanon have been suffering through a difficult financial crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic.
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https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/lebanon-relief?utm_term=PYp7gXzyD
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We are calling on the world, our friends, our fellow Lebanese in the diaspora to donate to help us provide disaster relief.
We are reaching out to the Lebanese Red Cross and various NGOs who will need our help and we will update the page providing exact details on how your money will be spent. We will be diligent in making the donations and will be able to provide more clarity as soon as possible.
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