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 …
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 …