Everything in PSC’s annual review wouldn’t have been possible without all our PSC members: as activists engaging people in our local communities, unions, political parties and faith groups as leaders shaping our priorities here, through our branch forums and in decision-making locally as educators, explaining to people just what life is like in Palestine and as funders, …
Channel 4’s new series The Jump began airing Sunday 26th January 2014. The series is sponsored by SodaStream, which has a factory located in the West Bank settlement of Ma’ale Adumim (the factory is in the settlement’s industrial sector, Mishor Adumim). This is the web homepage for The Jump, with ‘Sponsored by SodaStream’ prominent on …
Thank you to all the PSC members who came to PSC’s AGM. This is an important day for Palestine Solidarity, where members decide the priorities and focus for the following year’s campaigning. If you would like to get involved in PSC’s decision making, please join PSC The AGM agreed that exposing the Israeli state’s denial …
Viewers and listeners bombard BBC Director General over broadcasters links to G4S Over 2000 BBC viewers and listeners have contacted the BBC to urge it not to award G4S with a security contract worth £80 million. G4S services Israeli prisons to which Palestinian prisoners are illegally transferred in serious violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention …
John Lewis’s complacency and complicity in stocking occupation SodaStream products – despite their awareness of an international boycott campaign against the manufacturer – has been exposed. Read the EI article> This is John Lewis’ response so far: ” While I am sure a number of John Lewis’ customers may share these views, equally I am sure others …
Twitter action: Tell Oxfam to drop Scarlett Johannson over SodaStream role Hollywood actress Scarlett Johannson has agreed to be the public face of SodaStream, an Israeli drinks company that manufactures its products in the illegal Israeli settlement of Ma’ale Adumim . Johannson is also a goodwill ambassador for Oxfam. Having the actress representing Oxfam conflicts with the …
Israeli settlements are built on stolen Palestinian land and are illegal under international law. Sainsbury’s uses suppliers that trade in products from illegal Israeli settlements. In April 2013, The Co-operative stated that in line with its ethical policy it would ‘no longer engage with any supplier of produce known to be sourcing from the Israeli settlements’. Please take action to pressure Sainsbury’s to …
Palestine Solidarity Campaign’s written evidence for the International Development Committee’s inquiry has been published. The International Development Committee is a group of MPs officially tasked with examining the policies, practices and spending of the Department for International Development (DfID). Their inquiry is examining the UK’s Development Work in the Middle East. PSC submitted evidence on DfID’s …