BDS Why is the Palestinian call for cultural boycott so important?
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“My mother taught me how to be able to celebrate Palestine by welcoming guests to have our food. So, cook Palestinian wherever you are, because you are part of preserving that culture and telling the world we exist.” Fadi Kattan
Fadi Kattan — Palestinian chef and co-founder of Akub Restaurant in London
Photograph: © Mark Kensett for Amos Trust
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Host a Supper Club for Palestine this Summer
A Delicious Way To Fundraise
Host a Supper Club for Palestine this summer, share Palestinian-inspired dishes and raise funds for Amos Trust’s vital work in Palestine.
Join us as we honour Palestinian culture by bringing friends, family, or your local community together for a meal as an act of cultural resistance that supports our Gaza and West Bank appeal. Whether it’s a cosy dinner at home or a bigger gathering at a venue, it’s a simple but powerful way to stand in solidarity with Palestinians.
How it works:
“Where politics has been the tool for Israel to divide us, culture has been our tool of uniting ourselves... and that’s why it’s really important for the solidarity of our friends to understand that, we are not that self-centric that we want to eat hummus all the time, but it has become a way of resilience and looking inward to ourselves, putting a nice warm jacket on ourselves by keeping participating and celebrating the cultural element of the Palestinians.” Mahmoud Muna — The Bookseller of Jerusalem
Recipes & Toolkit
Below are four recipe ideas — one starter, two mains (one meat, one vegetarian) and one dessert which you can also find as a free download here.
The Toolkit below includes everything you need to run your Supper Club including recipes, fundraising resources, a music playlist and more! Let us know you’re taking part or ask us any questions by emailing [email protected]
Get Social
Tag us in your photos on social media at @amos_trust — we’d love to see your supper club in action! Click below to receive your free Supper Club recipe pack.
Your Supper Club Toolkit
Everything you need to host your own Supper Club for Palestine
1. Getting Started
2. Delicious Palestinian Recipes
We’ve put together a selection of our favourite Palestinian dishes from Amos Trust’s Sally Azzam and our friend Phoebe Rison from The Olive Tree Kitchen— simple, flavourful and perfect for sharing. You can download the recipes here.
We recommend Zaytoun and Shorkk for buying ethically sourced Palestinian and middle eastern spices, oils and ingredients online.
3. Fundraising
Your Supper Club is more than a meal — it’s a chance to raise vital funds for our Gaza and West Bank appeal.
You can fundraise by:
4. Make your evening meaningful
Add something extra to the night by sharing more about Palestine’s rich culture and history. You could:
5. Share your Supper Club
We’d love to see your Supper Club in action!
Take a look through our range of resources, blog posts, downloads and products to find out more about our Palestine Justice work.
Watch again as Zoughbi Zoughbi from Wi’am and Claire Anasta from Bethlehem discuss Israel’s illegal Separation Wall. Listen as they talk about the first time they saw the Wall and about the protests that took place against its building in Bethlehem and the neighbouring areas. They tell devastating stories of the Wall’s impact and share how it has only furthered divisions.
We were delighted to welcome old friends Heather and Taysir from Zaytoun, along with Amos trustee Gemma Bell, for a special webinar about food, farming, the landscape, community, and the ongoing difficulties that Palestinian farmers face in the Jordan Valley.
Listen again to a webinar about literally, rebuilding hope with actress Amaka Okafor reading Justin Butcher’s account of what happened when he visited a demolished family home in Palestine. Also joining us were Lara Mitri, Said Zarzar and Elias D’eis from Holy Land Trust in Bethlehem.
We were delighted to welcome Asmaa Tayeh and Ola AlAsi from We Are Not Numbers for a virtual tour of Jabalia Camp in the north of the Gaza Strip were we glimpsed into the every day lives of some of the locals, visited the market and saw images of Gaza that never make it onto the news.
2017 saw the first ever Palestine Music Expo (PMX) take place in Ramallah on the West Bank. It brought together Palestinian artists and international music industry professionals in an effort to develop valuable music industry networking opportunities in Palestine. The event was a huge success and continues to be the major annual event on the Palestine music calendar. Listen and watch again as we talk Palestinian Pop with Sarah Williams and Martin Goldschmidt from PMX and the unbelievably talented Palestinian singer-songwriter Rasha Nahas who sang for us live.
It seems that we are continually asking this question; what next for Palestine and Israel... one-state, two-states, Netanyahu, Bennett, boycott, the so-called peace process, Sheikh Jarrah/East Jerusalem, Gaza, Hamas. Listen and watch again to our conversation with Jonathan Cook and Phoebe Rison as they discussed some of the issues with Amos Director Chris Rose.
Listen and watch again as our friend Sami Awad from Holy Land Trust in Bethlehem updates us on the current situation in Palestine. As things in East Jerusalem and Gaza continue to escalate, Sami spoke with Amos director Chris Rose, Charlotte Marshall from Sabeel-Kairos and Jess Foster. He also shared news of his friends and family in Gaza. Sami, whose family fled Jerusalem in 1948, spoke about his thoughts on the current situation and answered some of your questions.
For our last webinar in the current season, we discussed the increased pressure to silence those who advocate for Palestinian rights, whether inside Palestine, in the UK, or across Europe. We were joined by those seeking to ensure that this pressure will not be successful, including Wesam Ahmad from Al Haq, Giovanni Fassina, Programme Director from The European Legal Support Centre, and Kat Khoury from PalArt Collective.
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