Newsletter · April 2021

ICAHD USA representation at AGM – 8th May

Rev Dr Michael Spath is the Founder and Executive Director of Indiana Center for Middle East Peace based in Fort Wayne, Indiana. He holds a PhD in Historical Theology, with an emphasis in Islam and Muslim-Christian Relations, and a Doctor of Ministry degree in New Testament. Michael was a Fulbright Graduate Scholar and National Security Education Program Graduate Fellow (1998-99) at the Royal Institute for Inter-Faith Studies, in Amman, Jordan, and over the years he has undertaken many research and work trips to the Middle East. Michael was a founder and leader of the Mayor’s Commission on Inter-Faith Understanding, Fort Wayne, IN and the St. Louis World Religions Dialogue (1979-95) and was co-founder of Confluence: Fort Wayne Interfaith Dialogue. He served on the Planning Committee of the St. Louis Holocaust Museum and Learning Center (1992-95) and is past Board Chair of the Fort Wayne Urban League. He currently serves as the Co-chair of the Board of Directors for Friends of Sabeel North America.

Robert Herbst is a human rights lawyer in New York City, and he has been a contributing opinion writer at Huffington Post since 2013. Bob is a graduate of Princeton University and of the Yale Law School. He served as a federal prosecutor in Chicago and Philadelphia and as Executive Assistant District Attorney in Brooklyn, New York. Since 1983, Bob has been in private practice as a civil rights, employment, criminal defence and class action trial and appellate lawyer. From 2011 to 2013, Bob served as Independent Counsel to the Special Court for Sierra Leone, where he investigated, prosecuted, and convicted four men for contempt and obstruction of justice before that international criminal tribunal. Robert Herbst was selected to Super Lawyers for 2007 – 2021, an exclusive list of top-rated attorneys in specific practice areas who were chosen after thorough evaluation of numerous criteria. Since 2014, Bob has served as Coordinator of the Westchester New York Chapter of Jewish Voice for Peace.

Please note that the link you are sent to join the meeting will be unique to you and should not be shared. During the Meeting Full details of how the AGM will operate will be given at the beginning of the meeting.

To avoid audio feedback, please ensure that your microphone is muted during the meeting unless you are invited to ask a question or make a comment.

If you wish to ask a question during the AGM, please click on the 'Chat' button and type your question. The meeting Chair will be able to see this and invite you to ask your question. The voting procedure will be explained at the beginning of the meeting.

The minutes of the AGM will be distributed as usual .

We hope you will be able to join us on Saturday 8^th May.

Best wishes Malcolm

Malcolm Wright Administrator, ICAHD UK https://www.facebook.com/pages/Israeli-Committee-Against-House-Demolitions-UK/366423593418140 Facebook https://www.twitter.com/ICAHDUK/ Twitter http://icahduk.org Website mailto:info@icahduk.org Email

30 April 2021

Dear member, One week from tomorrow ICAHD UK will hold its next AGM and we look forward to seeing many of you in attendance. We are now able to announce that following the one-hour allocated to business, we will be joined not only by Jeff Halper but also by the two people who are stepping into the role of Co-Conveners of ICAHD USA. Thus, this will be your opportunity to meet them and to gain more insight into the campaign scene in the States.

Practical Arrangements

To get through the agenda within the allocated time frame, it will be helpful to receive as many comments and questions as possible in advance of the AGM so that we can provide our response. Please send your comments and questions to info@icahduk.org (mailto:info@icahduk.org) or by post to ICAHD UK, BM ICAHD UK, London WC1N 3XX.

Date and Time

The ICAHD UK AGM will be held at 10.30am on Saturday 8th May 2021 and, due to the Coronavirus pandemic, will be held virtually over Zoom. The AGM and meeting on the proposed updates to the Articles of Association, which will immediately follow the AGM, will last for a maximum of one hour. Jeff Halper will then join us for discussion and an update on the other ICAHD Chapters will be given. We aim to end the Zoom by 12.30pm.

Registration

To register to participate in the AGM please click on this link (https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAudu-rrj4pE9KeWXFs1cb_6HMKaUDn7PbR) and complete the short form with your name and email address before Wednesday 5th May. We will then get back to you as quickly as possible to confirm your registration and send a link which you should click a few minutes before the AGM starts to gain access to the meeting. If you do not have Zoom on your Computer, this will automatically be installed when you click the link to the meeting. The process may take a few minutes.

Documentation

Please click on the links below to download the documentation for the 2021 AGM. If you have any problems, please email me at info@icahduk.org (mailto:info@icahduk.org) :

* Agenda

* Minutes of the 2020 AGM (https://mcusercontent.com/a3728e1a8014d53820403ca12/files/a546273f-943a-40c3-bc56-af62930fc0cd/Minutes_AGM_2020.01.pdf) * ICAHD UK Achievements in 2020 (https://mcusercontent.com/a3728e1a8014d53820403ca12/files/426f6fc8-4326-4422-aea9-27267e59787c/ICAHD_UK_Achievements_2020.01.pdf) * Director’s Report (https://mcusercontent.com/a3728e1a8014d53820403ca12/files/950c09e0-7f68-4df5-ba60-adfa4e6e81df/Director_s_Report.pdf) * Treasurer’s Report (https://mcusercontent.com/a3728e1a8014d53820403ca12/files/0b946494-09f1-47a3-83bd-a81d3fa3bc7e/Treasurer_s_Report.01.pdf) * Statutory Accounts (https://mcusercontent.com/a3728e1a8014d53820403ca12/files/13b339bd-4be8-4ab0-88de-d9374b67806f/Statutory_Accounts.pdf) * Detailed Profit and Loss Accounts (https://mcusercontent.com/a3728e1a8014d53820403ca12/files/4befa65e-b269-4234-98e8-9af4b7f2a5d7/Detailed_Profit_and_Loss_Accounts.pdf) * Nominee Submissions for Election to Executive Committee (https://mcusercontent.com/a3728e1a8014d53820403ca12/files/b0d09bdd-156d-4948-bdd7-d09fa47b6244/Nominations_for_the_Executive_Committee.pdf) * Proposed Amendments to the ICAHD UK Articles of Association (https://mcusercontent.com/a3728e1a8014d53820403ca12/files/442b1934-59f2-45b4-b64f-314eef761034/ICAHD_UK_Articles_of_Association_showing_proposed_updates.pdf)

Read more

View the original mailing →