Luton Friends of Palestine is a local-based support group campaigning for justice for the Palestinian people. It is a not-for-profit community initiative, involving people from all walks of life. We are a non-party political group providing solidarity with the Palestinian People. The Palestinian People suffer systematic oppression within Israel and its Occupied Territories. Over four million live under Israeli occupation in the West Bank & East Jerusalem (2.5 million) and the Gaza Strip (1.6 million). Another 1.3 million live as third class citizens in the state of Israel. There are almost six million Palestinians scattered across the world today. Many were expelled from their homes and land in 1948 and 1967 and have never be allowed to return. Luton Friends of Palestine has established to campaign:
-for the right of self-determination for the Palestinian people
-for the right of return of the Palestinian people
-for the immediate withdrawal of the Israeli state from the occupied territories
-against the oppression and dispossession suffered by the Palestinian people
-in support of the rights of the Palestinian people and their struggle to achieve these rights
-to promote Palestinian civil society in the interests of democratic rights and social justice
-to oppose Israel’s occupation and its aggression against neighbouring states
-in opposition to racism, including anti-Jewish prejudice and Islamophobia, and the apartheid and Zionist nature of the Israeli state
