Tag: West Bank
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Palestine Comedy Club – The Movie
8pm Tuesday 21 April 2026 Dundee Contemporary Arts centre More information & book tickets here What’s funny about life under occupation? Palestine Comedy Club is a rollercoaster road-movie that follows six Palestinian stand-up comedians from Haifa, Ramallah, Jenin, Hebron and the Golan Heights who devise and tour a stand-up comedy show exploring the unlikely, often…
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Films to mark International Women’s Day
To mark International Women’s Day, DNTA and Dundee Contemporary Arts, in collaboration, will be showing two films by Palestinian film makers: a short film, Daggit Gaza, will be followed by the feature film, Frontiers of Dreams and Fears. Daggit Gaza Daggit Gaza can be translated as the spicy tomato salad made in Gaza (called daggah)…
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Meeting – Life Under Occupation: A Guide to Cultural Survival
Friday 13th February 7pmJust Bee, Meadowside St Paul’s Church114-116 Nethergate, Dundee, DD1 4EH (West Marketgait entrance)Hosted by the Dundee & Angus Scottish Green Party As cultural, history and walking guides in the Palestinian West Bank and Gaza, brothers George and Nidal Rishmawi, from Beit Sahour, near Bethlehem, have broad experience of what it is like…
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Yanoun: Death of a Village
Yanoun, a small Palestinian village a few miles east of Nablus, has recently been erased from existence. Since the mid 1990s, illegal Israeli settlers have been intimidating and perpetrating acts of violence against Yanoun’s residents in an attempt to drive them out. After many years of resistance, in December 2025 the Israeli military forcibly evacuated…
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Statement from New Askar Refugee Camp, Nablus on World Children’s Day
To mark World Children’s Day, the following statement was issued by the Askar Refugee Camps’ Association for Community Development. On the occasion of World Children’s Day, which marks the anniversary of the adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the children of New Askar Refugee Camp remind the world that their rights…
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Palestinians need a just settlement
DNTA is a member of the Britain Palestine Friendship and Twinning Network (BPFTN). The BPFTN has issued the following statement in response to the UK government’s recognition of the State of Palestine BPFTN Statement – UK recognition of the State of Palestine – 21st September 2025 While the BPFTN welcomes the UK government’s recognition of the…
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Dundee City Council backs sanctions on Israel
Earlier this week, Dundee City Council unanimously passed the following motion and amendment about Nablus and Gaza with no speakers against. Mike Whitehead was allowed to speak to the motion on behalf of DNTA. The motion from Labour councillor, Wendy Scullin, read: This council condemns the increasing attacks on our twin city of Nablus at…
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Dundee makes headlines in the UAE
We were approached by a reporter from “The National” – an English language publication in the UAE (not to be confused with the Scottish paper of the same name!). They included many of our contributions in a long feature. Inspired by and including news about the V&A exhibition, they covered the twinning with Nablus and many…
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Nablus under attack
Dundee Trades Union Council publishes a statement highlighting the current emergency in Palestine and calls on political representatives and civic society to take action. The emergency facing Nablus and all governorates in the North of the West Bank demands action by UK and local government, journalists and all media outlets, major institutions and all civil…