A court has decided today to postpone the trial of Chris Nineham and Ben Jamal. There will be a hearing at Westminster Magistrates Court on Monday to find a date for the trial. Chris and Ben will be attending court and the protest planned for City Magistrates Court will now take place outside Westminster Magistrates …
The ruling today from the High Court, declining to block the British government’s sale of deadly F-35 parts to Israel during its genocide in Gaza is a disgraceful abdication of this government’s obligations under international law. We salute the efforts of Al-Haq and Global Legal Action Network (GLAN) to bring this case; alongside the mass …
One of the UK’s biggest supermarket chains confirms it will stop sourcing products and services from Israel because of its human rights abuses and violations of international law Today the Coop has announced that Israel is one of a number of countries from which it will not source products and services, beginning this month This …
PSC utterly condemns the government’s disgraceful plan to proscribe the non-violent direct action group Palestine Action as terrorists, part of a wider crackdown on those protesting for Palestinian rights. Such a repressive step will only serve to degrade the meaning of terrorism and further undermine all of our civil liberties and democratic freedoms. The overwhelming …
20 months into its genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, Israel has launched new major strikes on sites across Iran, which have killed and wounded civilians. Emboldened by the total impunity afforded to it by western governments, Israel has, once again, brought the entire region to the brink of war. Such a war would …
Press comment: PSC says sanctions against far-right Israeli ministers are long-overdue but remain inadequate Responding to the news that Britain will impose sanctions on Itamar Ben-Gvir, the Israeli security minister, and Bezalel Smotrich, the finance minister, Palestine Solidarity Campaign Director Ben Jamal said: “These sanctions against two far-right Israeli ministers are a long-overdue acceptance by …
The Palestine Coalition condemns in the strongest terms Israel’s unlawful hijacking of the Madleen, a ‘Freedom Flotilla’ boat flying under a British flag, and its detention of the 12 civilians on board. The civilians on board the Madleen were attempting to deliver aid to the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip, to symbolically break Israel’s …
New polling reveals huge British public support for arms embargo on Israel by the UK government alongside other sanctions. The British public support a full arms embargo on Israel by more than 4 to 1, including 72% of those who voted Labour in 2024. 54% of the British public support Israel being expelled from the …
Members of one of the UK’s biggest supermarket chains votes to “cease all trading with Israel” at AGM Motion submitted by members of the Co-Op urges the board to “show moral courage and leadership” by taking “all Israeli products off the shelves” The vote is a major victory in the current PSC “Don’t Buy Apartheid” …
For 20 months Israel has devastated Gaza – killing over 54,000 Palestinians including more than 15,000 children, destroying over 90% of housing, and damaging or destroying over 90% of hospitals. None of this was enough to make you act to impose meaningful sanctions and a full arms embargo. None of this was a red line …