Abergavenny Palestine Solidarity Campaign

Thanks to all who attended our weekly Gathering for Gaza yesterday. Unfortunately the heavy rain put paid to photos, but that just gives us an opportunity to catch up on photos and videos from our successful 'Don't Buy Apartheid' day of action! Last Saturday we marched peacefully through town and carried out a bridge banner drop. We're grateful to all who were a part of this action.

Thanks also to the kind person who gifted several cans of - a brilliant company that donates 100% of all profits to humanitarian aid in Gaza.

Share below if you know of any shops in Abergavenny that stock boycott friendly items!

Join us in Abergavenny this Saturday as we gather to commemorate the Naksa.

📆 Saturday June 6th
🕥 11am-12.30pm
📍 Opposite Waterstones, Abergavenny

It has been 59 years since the The Six-Day War of June 1967, which is often referred to as the Naksa or "setback" in Arabic.

The Naksa resulted in Israeli forces seizing (and illegally occupying) the West Bank and East Jerusalem from Jordan, and the Gaza Strip from Egypt. This effectively placed 100% of historic Palestine under Israeli control.

The Naksa led to the mass displacement of an estimated 300,000 to 430,000 Palestinians, roughly half of whom were already refugees from the 1948 Nakba.

Saturdays action. Thanks to all who took part 🇵🇸❤️

'Boycott Israeli goods' protest takes place in Welsh town Stephen Price A group which aims to draw attention to Israel’s ongoing war on occupied Palestine and the UK’s complicity held a peaceful protest calling for a boycott of Israeli goods this weekend. Taking place on a bridge above the A4143 on the entry to Abergavenny on Saturday May 30, members o...

🇵🇸 Gathering for Gaza
📆 Saturday May 30th
🕥 11am-12.30pm
📍 Opposite Waterstones, Abergavenny

Join us this Saturday for our planned "Day of Action" which includes a peaceful march and a banner drop.

Our focus this week is the Don't Buy Apartheid campaign - a powerful tool we can all use to stand up to Israel. Take a look at the as a first step.

Don't Buy Apartheid calls provides two key actions to support the Palestinian struggle for freedom:

1) Boycott Israeli produce like avocados, oranges, herbs and dates.

2) Boycott Coca-Cola and its brands Schweppes, Sprite, Fanta, Innocent, Appletiser, Smart Water and Costa Coffee.

Israeli fresh produce, like avocados, oranges, herbs and dates, is grown in illegal Israeli settlements on stolen Palestinian land. When businesses sell this produce, they are supporting Israel’s land theft and ethnic cleansing.

Coca-Cola franchisee in Israel operates a regional distribution centre in an illegal Israeli settlement. It’s therefore helping to entrench Israel’s military occupation and colonisation of Palestinian land. Consumers and businesses should buy an apartheid-free alternative, such as Gaza Cola.

He dedicated his life to protecting, connecting with and loving children. Israel murdered him.

Read his words. He was a truly beautiful soul.

The last of several posts from our two most recent weekly gatherings for Gaza.

Please take a moment to listen to the powerful speeches from Khalid Ramadan and Betty Hunter at our Nakba commemoration on 16 May.

Each year we mark the Nakba — the catastrophe in which 80% of the indigenous non-Jewish population were massacred or expelled from their ancestral homeland in 1948, and more than 400 villages were depopulated or destroyed.

But the Nakba is not only a historical event. It never ended.

Today, Palestinians continue to face mass displacement and violence. Since October 2023, UN agencies report that over 1.7 million Palestinians in Gaza — more than 75% of the population — have been forcibly displaced, many multiple times. Many tens of thousands of Palestinians have been killed, including huge numbers of children, and entire neighbourhoods have been levelled.

When we gather we do so to honour those who were uprooted in 1948 and those still being uprooted now. The continuity of dispossession is undeniable. Our commemoration is not only remembrance — it is a call to witness, to speak, and to refuse to look away.