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October 2019
Sheffield Friends of the Earth (FoE) are calling for Sheffield City Region to declare a Climate Emergency. As global warming and extinctions rise, the UK Parliament and Sheffield City Council (among many others) have already declared a Climate Emergency.
FoE have an online petition to Mayor of Sheffield City Region, Dan Jarvis MP, asking him to bring the four South Yorkshire local authorities together to produce a Climate Action Plan.
Sheffield Friends of the Earth petition
October 2019
Sheffield Palestine Solidarity Campaign (SPSC) have objected to Sheffield City Council adopting the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of anti-Semitism. They state that although the actual definition is OK, some of its examples of anti-Semitism are not. Believing or saying that Israel is a racist state comes under this. Sadly Israel gives only second-class citizenship (and many other oppressions) to non-Jews, surely an example of racism.
The Council could now, in theory, say that solidarity with the Palestinians is somehow anti-Semitic, and start to cancel venues and speakers. The SPSC comments during the Council debate in October are online here (from 59:44 mins into the video). There is a full, useful explanation at the link below.
Sheffield Palestine Solidarity Campaign
