At the end of last year, we released our groundbreaking research uncovering UK universities’ investments in and institutional ties with companies complicit in Israel’s arms trade and illegal settlement economy. We discovered UK universities invest over an estimated £450million in companies arming Israel and compiled this information in our user-friendly database. On 12th February 2020, …
Palestine Solidarity Campaign Annual General Meeting 2020 Report Over 300 PSC members from across the UK packed Conway Hall for the 2020 PSC AGM. The members came together to plan the next 12 months of our crucial campaigning, discussing and debating PSCs Annual Plan for 2020. Members overwhelmingly adopted an Emergency Motion calling on PSC …
Yesterday the United Nations published the long awaited list of companies active in illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank. Write to the companies to tell them to immediately withdraw from all activity in Israel’s illegal settlements! The 112 companies on the list contribute to and support Israel’s ever-expanding Jewish-only settlements. Every settlement amounts to …
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Palestine Solidarity Campaign responds to release of UN settlement database On Wednesday the UN published its long-awaited list of companies operating in illegal Israeli settlements Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) has called on the UK Government to take action against the 3 UK-based companies included on the list, as well as calling directly …
The following letter was sent today to all of the candidates in the Labour leadership and deputy leadership elections. It was sent on behalf of PSC, Labour and Palestine, and signed by representatives of core groupings, Members of Parliament, Trade Unions, and prominent party members with a track record of campaigning on internationalism and human …
Chester F.C end 8 year partnership with Puma Chester F.C yesterday announced they are ditching their long term kit supplier amid a growing international campaign to #BoycottPuma. The sportswear manufacturer is rapidly becoming a toxic brand over its complicity with Israeli war crimes, and Chester F.C previously indicated – in response to thousands of messages …
A big part of Palestine Solidarity Campaign’s work is to give a platform to Palestinian voices. It was a great honour to recently host Omar Barghouti – prominent human rights defender and BDS movement co-founder – in the UK, where he addressed our Annual General Meeting, met with politicians and PSC partners, spoke to student …
PSC AGM – 25 January 2020 BDS and the struggle for Palestinian rights in the Trump era – Omar Barghouti* With all the serious economic, social, racial and climate challenges the UK is facing, why on earth is Boris Johnson’s newly elected government so preoccupied with undermining the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement for …
Donald Trump’s so-called deal of the century, launched yesterday, represents not a deal for peace but a demand to the Palestinian people to surrender, sugar-coated with the illusion of economic prosperity. It reflects the vision that Israel has sought to map out on the ground for decades, accelerating since Trump’s election, and the steps he …
Palestine Solidarity Campaign, alongside a number of other peaceful campaigning organisations, has today expressed our deep concern at the inclusion of our organisation in a counter-terrorism police document distributed to NHS trusts, schools, and safeguarding boards. The suggestion that campaigning for peace, for environmental justice, against racism or for the human rights of oppressed peoples, …