Noam Chomsky, John Pilger and Ken Loach are among 45,000 signatories who have signed an open letter to the BBC calling on its journalists to reflect the reality of Gaza’s occupation while reporting on Israel’s current assault. MPs Andy Slaughter and Katy Clark have also signed the letter, along with musician Brian Eno and comedian …
Please sign this open letter to the BBC. Ask your MP to sign it. Ask your friends to sign. Palestine Solidarity Campaign will be presenting this letter, with your signatures on it, to the Director General of the BBC, Lord Hall.Dear BBCOnce again Gaza is under massive aerial bombardment from Israeli warplanes and drones, and, …
Britain’s largest union, Unite, votes to support Palestinian rights and strengthen BDS campaigning On 1 July, Unite the Union passed policy noting that ‘the Israeli government continues to govern as an apartheid state and is guilty of the crime of apartheid. The oppression faced by ordinary Palestinians at the hands of their colonial oppressors and …
Campaigners for Palestinian human rights have welcomed the closure of SodaStream’s flagship UK store in Brighton and the news that major retailer, John Lewis, will no longer be stocking SodaStream products. The double blow to SodaStream, which has been trying to establish a foothold in the UK, came this week. EcoStream, as the Brighton store …
Kamel Hawwash, Vice-chair of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, said: ‘I am saddened to hear of the death of the three missing Israelis whose bodies were found near Hebron. It is time violence ended and a genuine drive for a just peace started. Over 1500 Palestinian children have been killed by Israeli forces since 2000. Israel …
Campaigners are taking the BBC to a tribunal in a bid to find out why the corporation insists on promoting Jerusalem as an ‘Israeli city’. An appeal was lodged in the UK last week with the First-Tier Tribunal (Information Rights) by Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) and Friends of Al Aqsa (FOA). The two organisations are …
Today, Director of Palestine Solidarity Campaign, Sarah Colborne, called on the Foreign Secretary, William Hague, to make urgent representations to the Israeli Government to ‘end their collective punishment against Palestinians.’ Read the text of the letter below: “I am writing to ask you to make urgent representations to the Israeli Government to end their collective …
Date of issue: 12 June 2014 For immediate release PSC calls for UK intervention against Israel’s destruction of Al Arakib village Today, Thursday 12 June 2014, Palestine Solidarity Campaign called for the Foreign Secretary, William Hague, to intervene to stop Israel’s demolition of Al Arakib village. PSC called for the Foreign Secretary “to urgently …
Press release The world’s largest security company, G4S, will face renewed pressure from different directions to drop its Israeli prison contracts at its Annual General Meeting today. Public pressure will come from a petition of more than 3,000 signatures calling on G4S to withdraw from contracts with the Israeli Prison Service. The petition will …