PSC reiterates the call for a complete cancellation of the Aston Villa vs Maccabi Tel Aviv football match, currently scheduled to take place on 6 November in Birmingham. The match should not go ahead, with or without Maccabi Tel Aviv fans present, because the club has been directly involved in Israel’s genocide against Palestinians in …
The Palestine Coalition shares the relief of the Palestinian people that a ceasefire has now taken effect which could bring an end to the mass slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza and allow aid to be brought in to prevent hundreds of thousands of deaths from starvation. The fact that this agreement has come at last …
The Home Secretary, Shabana Mahmood, has announced her intention to introduce major new restrictions on the right to protest – in particular, to give the police new powers to limit repeated protests on the basis of their supposed ‘cumulative impact.’ This cynical attempt by the government to exploit the horrific attack on a synagogue in …
PSC condemns US President Donald Trump’s ‘20 point plan’ for Gaza, which should be understood as a continuation of Israel’s genocide against the Palestinian people rather than a plan to end it. Israel’s genocide has been armed and supported by the US and other Western powers, including Britain, following decades of complicity in Israel’s system …
PSC welcomes the report of the UN Commission of Inquiry concluding that Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. Whilst this had already been asserted by a vast array of legal experts, human rights groups and scholars, this report confirms this conclusion with additional evidence and the authority of an independent investigation …
Nearly two years into Israel’s genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza, confirmed as such by UN this week, the British government is facing growing public outrage at its refusal to take any meaningful action to end its complicity in these crimes. Instead, the government seems determined to use draconian police powers to crack down …
PSC condemns the disgraceful announcement that nearly two years into Israel’s genocide against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip, Israeli President Isaac Herzog will visit Britain next week. Herzog is the head of a state that is currently on trial for genocide and which has already been found guilty of the crime of apartheid …
PSC condemns Israel’s plan to escalate its genocidal assault on the Gaza Strip, including through the military occupation of Gaza City, displacing all the Palestinians who remain there. Israel’s Security Cabinet yesterday agreed a proposal for the “takeover of Gaza City”. Netanyahu has separately said that Israel will “take control of all Gaza”. We must …
PSC condemns Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s statement on Tuesday which fails to address the urgent pressure needed for Israel to end its genocide in Gaza. It shamefully frames the Palestinian right to self-determination within the context of Israel’s actions, rather than as an inalienable right of the Palestinian people. Tuesday’s announcement came in part …
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 …