Balfour Day 2 November 2022
105 years after the UK Government’s Balfour Declaration, which so many Palestinians see as being the start of a century of dispossession and suffering.
“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.
“I guess I expected a kind of Ottolenghi-style tour, a pomegranate-seed strewn food odyssey with a bit of politics thrown in. Naïve, ignorant, stupid me. Nothing could have prepared me for the mind-blowing gut-wrenching tragedy that is happening in this region.” Sue Quinn writes about Amos’ Taste of Palestine trip.
Amos Trust has joined nearly 70 civil society organisations in pledging to fight the Economic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) bill, or anti-boycott bill, as a threat to basic democratic rights. Read the joint statement and the complete list of civil society organisations, including trade unions, charities, NGOs, faith, climate justice and human rights groups.
“Time and time again, our partners in Palestine tell us that knowing we are thinking of them, standing by them, standing up for them, speaking out about their situation and trying to make their voices heard helps them feel seen and gives them some hope even in the darkest hours. With that in mind, we hastily reimagined our annual Run The Wall event.” Full story.
First Of The Month — a new big read from Amos Trust. Digital-only, long-form essays from Amos staff, friends and creative collaborators. For April’s edition, Asmaa Tayeh from We Are Not Numbers in Gaza writes about losing her 95-year old grandmother.
Amos Trust works alongside a wide variety of partners to promote equal rights for Palestinians, to campaign against Israel’s apartheid policies and to call for an end to the military occupation of the Palestinian territories. We seek to find creative ways to raise awareness, educate and challenge stereotypes by communicating the message and experiences of our partners and friends in the different areas within which we work.
“Entering the Old City is a wonderful induction into Palestinian food and markets. Women from the surrounding villages sell fresh produce on the steps, the aroma of cardamom-infused coffee from street vendors hangs in the air.” Gemma Bell and Heather Masoud take us on a journey to the markets, restaurants and kitchens of Palestine. Photography by Issy Croker.
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