Press release: PSC responds to Home Affairs Select Committee report
The Home Affairs Committee report: Opposition to antisemitism must not prevent scrutiny of Israeli human rights abuses The Palestine Solidarity Campaign has responded to the Home Affairs Select Committee report on antisemitism. Chair of Palestine Solidarity Campaign, Hugh Lanning, criticises its recommendations: “It is muddled and fails to differentiate between the actions rightfully needed to …
Take Action: Sur Baher Home Demolitions
Write to your MP to ban trade with illegal settlements Write to HSBC to divest from Caterpillar In the early hours of Monday morning, hundreds of Israeli soldiers stormed the Palestinian area Wadi Hummus, in the Sur Baher neighbourhood of East Jerusalem, and began bulldozing residential homes. As scores of families woke up to find …
Jerusalem Home Demolitions: Take Action
24.07.2019 Write to your MP to ban trade with illegal settlements Write to HSBC to divest from Caterpillar In the early hours of Monday morning, hundreds of Israeli soldiers stormed the Palestinian area Wadi Hummus, in the Sur Baher neighbourhood of East Jerusalem, and began bulldozing residential homes. As scores of families woke up to …
Coalition statement on Rishi Sunaks comments on ceasefire protests
The coalition organising the Palestine protests condemns the irresponsible comments of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak seeking to demonise those calling for a ceasefire. The long tradition of freedom of protest and expression in this country is being threatened. People have been protesting in unprecedented numbers because of their horror at the slaughter of thousands of …
Press Release: Parliamentary press conference on right to protest
Palestine march organisers call press conference in Parliament to respond to attacks on the right to protest Representatives of the coalition organising the national Palestine marches, along with MPs and civil liberties organisations, will hold a press conference tomorrow morning (Wednesday 28 February 2024) in Parliament to address the growing attacks on the right to …
PSC’s Response to the Publication of the EHRC Report
Palestine Solidarity Campaign’s work for the rights and freedoms of the Palestinian people is rooted in opposition to all forms of racism. This involves not only challenging and opposing individual prejudice but any belief or ideology that suggests people have superiority over others based on race, ethnicity, culture or religion, and any laws and policies …
Defending the right to protest. By Ben Jamal
Ben Jamal is the Director of Palestine Solidarity Campaign. In a month where human rights activists across the world absorbed the shock of the election of Donald Trump, Israel’s relentless campaign to silence protest against its abuses of Palestinians continued apace. Last week on, Wednesday 16th November in New York , the Israeli ambassador to …
Parliament update 26 October 2015
THURSDAY 29 OCTOBER 2015 Syrian Refugees: – Baroness Morris of Bolton: I declare my interests as the Prime Minister’s trade envoy to Jordan and the Palestinian territories and as president of Medical Aid for Palestinians. In our previous debate on the Syrian refugee crisis, I spoke of the desperate plight of the Palestinians of Yarmouk …
Palestine in Parliament: 16-20 March
THURSDAY 19 MARCH 2015 Jim Fitzpatrick [in Business Questions]: “I do not expect the Government to comment on the outcome of elections in other countries, but will there be a statement on Premier Netanyahu’s announcement that he will not support a two-state solution? Might the Prime Minister refer to it at the European Council and then comment …
Parliamentary update: 21-25 January
On Tuesday – the day of the Israeli General Election – MPs challenged William Hague for actions not words during the monthly Foreign Office Questions. William Hague said the UK expressed “profound concern that Israel’s settlement policy is losing it the support of the international community and will make a two-state solution impossible”. Despite this …