Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) has written to the UK Prime Minister to ask him to intervene against Israel’s collective punishment against Palestinians, in the wake of a violent attack in Tel Aviv. Hugh Lanning, chair of PSC, expressed sympathy for all the victims of violence, with at least 66 Palestinians and eight Israeli fatalities this year. “Every …
More than 100,000 Palestinians are being directly punished for the events that took place in Tel Aviv on Wednesday 8 June – 83,000 who have had their permits to enter Palestinian East Jerusalem and Israel removed during Ramadan and 65,000 who live in the West Bank town of Yatta, which has been completely closed down. The …
Report: National Day of Action on Hewlett Packard, Saturday 4th June 2016 At more than twenty locations around the UK on Saturday 4th June 2016, activists protested the involvement of technology giant Hewlett Packard (HP) in Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestine and its military infrastructure. PSC branches throughout the country organised pickets outside major stockists …
Jeremy Corbyn MP has asked lawyer and rights campaigner, Shami Chakrabarti, to lead an inquiry into antisemitism and other forms of racism including Islamophobia in the Labour Party. As an organisation dedicated to campaigning for the rights of Palestinians and opposing racism, oppression and discrimination PSC has given evidence to this inquiry. You can read our evidence here> We’ve …
PSC is an anti-racist organisation: standing up against oppression and discrimination is at the heart of everything that we do. That’s why we are giving evidence to the Labour Party’s Chakrabarti inquiry into antisemitism and racism. It is vital that antisemitism, Islamophobia and all forms of racism are not tolerated in our political parties, or elsewhere …
Denial of free speech for the “crime of being Palestinian” Palestine Solidarity Campaign have written to the Speakers’ Trust to express their disgust at the organisation’s silencing of a Palestinian schoolgirl. Leanne Mohamad was blocked from taking up her place in the grand final of the – ironically named – Jack Petchey “Speak Out Challenge” after …
Palestine Solidarity Campaign has written to six main party leaders – including the Prime Minister and Leader of the Opposition – calling for them to support Palestinian human rights and defend the right to support boycott, divestment and sanctions. The letters call for them to support sanctions against Israel to persuade Israel “to peacefully to …
Our friend and fellow human rights campaigner Omar Barghouti, co-founder of the Palestinian-led Boycott, Divestment and Sanction movement (BDS) has been issued a travel ban by the Israeli government. Despite having lived in Israel for 22 years and having no criminal record, Omar will now no longer be able to travel around the world advocating …
Nakba: Then and Now – Day-School Conference at London’s Mander Hall – Saturday 14th May 2016 On Saturday 14th May hundreds of supporters of Palestine came together to learn about and discuss the Nakba – the dispossession and displacement of Palestinians from 1948 to today. The PSC event marked the 68th anniversary of the Nakba …