Date of issue: 16 July 2013 For immediate release The Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) welcomes news of new EU guidelines excluding illegal Israeli settlements from EU and member state agreements The EU has taken action to limit financial cooperation with illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank.According to press reports, the guidelines set out that …
Mahmoud Sarsak was arrested on 22nd July 2009 by the Israeli Forces as he was travelling from Gaza to play football for his new professional club, Markaz Balata. Mahmoud, who was 22 years old at the time, was a member of the Palestinian national football team and had obtained permission to travel through Erez checkpoint …
press release For immediate release BBC Director General faces claims that political pressure led BBC to drop film on ‘Jewish exile’ Six leading pro-Palestinian organisations have written to the BBC’s Director General asking for answers over the pulling of a documentary which claims that the mass Jewish exodus from Jerusalem in 70 AD may never …
press release For immediate release G4S Annual General Meeting dominated by controversy over Israeli prison contracts G4S’ involvement in the detention of Palestinian children in Israeli jails dominated the company’s Annual General Meeting today, overshadowing all other business, including last year’s Olympic security fiasco. The AGM was also interrupted by protestors shouting ‘Who killed Jimmy …
For immediate release Protest held to tell Parliament: after 65 years ethnic cleansing of Palestinians must end On Saturday 18th May 2013, campaigners joined MPs, trade unionists and public figures in a protest outside Parliament against the ongoing ethnic cleansing of Palestinians.The protest marked the 65th anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba (catastrophe) and called on …
PSC present letter to the Prime Minister Today, 15 May 2013, PSC’s Chair, Hugh Lanning, Director, Sarah Colborne and Patron, Baroness Jenny Tonge, handed in a letter to Downing Street calling for UK action on Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. Hugh Lanning, Chair of Palestine Solidarity Campaign, alerted the Prime Minister to the fact …
We are extremely disappointed that some parts of the media are claiming that Professor Stephen Hawking withdrew from the Israeli Presidential Conference Facing Tomorrow 2013 for health reasons. Given Professor Hawking’s clear and unambiguous letter to the conference organisers we could not continue to allow the situation to be misrepresented in this way. Professor Hawking’s …
press release Date of issue: 1 May 2013 For immediate release BBC’s Newsnight admits error over scale of Israeli occupation of West Bank The BBC has admitted that a Newsnight report which implied that only part of the West Bank is under occupation was inaccurate. The claim that there is a difference between ‘West Bank …
press release Date of issue: 22nd April 2013 For immediate release G4S withdrawal from selected contracts with Israel won’t end its complicity in abuses of Palestinian human rights Responding to the Financial Times article confirming that G4S is planning to leave some Israeli contracts following protests, Sarah Colborne, Director of Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC), said: …
On Wednesday 17thApril people across Britain will protest against local contracts with G4S because of their involvement in human rights violations (see information below). Local residents will hand out leaflets detailing how G4S profits from Israel’s illegal detention and torture of Palestinians including children.The 17thApril is the global day of solidarity with Palestinian prisoners. Currently …