The Green Party is alone amongst the main UK political parties to recognise the Israeli state as an apartheid state, to call out the military campaign in Gaza as genocide and to support the campaign for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions against Israel. We are also campaigning for an immediate ceasefire, and for the UK government to halt arms exports to Israel and to recognise a Palestinian state.

Glyn Secker, a member of the executive of Jews for Justice for Palestinians and a tireless activist for human rights, will speak about the politics of human rights in Palestine today and put Hamas’s attack on Israel on October 7 2023 in the historical context of the history of the oppression of Palestinian Arabs since 1948. He will discuss the nature of the tasks facing supporters of Palestinian rights in confronting the huge and often unquestioning support that an increasingly far-right Israeli government retains across the western world.

This is the first in a series of political discussions we are organising for Southwark Green Party members. At the end of the meeting there will be a consultation about which topics you would like for future discussions.

Speaker notes:

Glyn Secker has a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in political science. He is on the Executive Committee of Jews for Justice for Palestinians; was the Captain of the Irene, the Jewish Boat To Gaza in 2010; supplier and transporter of printing presses to Greek socialist parties, 1974, during the dictatorship of the Junta; information courier to socialist opposition groups in 1980 in Turkey in the period of the military coups; Charter 77 courier to socialist parties in Czechoslovakia in the period preceding the Velvet Revolution of 1989. He is the lifelong partner of Vanessa Stilwell, mother of our two children, who lost a generation of her family in the Holocaust.

Date and time: 7.00pm Thursday 30 January 2025

Venue: the offices of Falcon Point Management Group, 56 Hopton Street, SE1 9JH (next to Starbucks on the ground floor of Falcon Point).

The venue has level access and an accessible toilet, is next to Blackfriars Station and served by buses 40 and 63.

Light refreshments will be served.