Meeting for Sufferings: Behind the words
Ian Kirk-Smith reports on the session on Israel/Palestine at Meeting for Sufferings
The conflict in Israel/Palestine and the effect of government welfare cuts, the two key subjects on the agenda, produced strong, thoughtful, contributions at Meeting for Sufferings held at Friends House on Saturday 13 April. In April 2011, Meeting for Sufferings made a decision to support the boycott of goods from settlements in the Occupied Territories. These are towns, exclusively for Jewish Israelis, which have been built on Palestinian land in contravention of the Fourth Geneva Convention. Since then an Israel-Palestine Working Group, set up by Devon Area Meeting in 2011 to consider what further action Quakers might take in relation to the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, has met on six occasions. It has also consulted a number of Local Meetings.
