Support Samer Issawi After more than 8 months on hunger strike against his illegal detention, Ayman Sharawna has been removed by Israel to Gaza where he has been reunited with family members. Samer Issawi is continuing to fight his imprisonment and has been on hunger strike for 244 days. Despite the urgency, Ofer Military Court …
UN Committee for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination calls for action on Israel’s growing racism The UN Committee for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination’s latest report on Israel, released in March 2013, called on Israel to “abrogate all discriminatory laws and rescind all discriminatory bills so as to ensure non-Jewish communities’ equal access to work …
Join us for PSC’s major Conference Yet again the BBC has reported a rocket fired from Gaza landing on tarmac in Israel, but has failed to properly report Israeli violations of their ceasefire with Gaza, and Israel’s killing of Palestinian civilians in the West Bank and Gaza. At our Conference on Saturday …
Thank you to all members and supporters who have emailed the Foreign Office in response to our ‘action not words’ appeal. We have made further representations to the FCO based on your views. Thanks to everyone who responded. Read Alistair Burt’s response below: The UK Government’s position on Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories …
Palestinian Women Prisoners Help PSC to campaign for prisoner rights. Please join PSC and show your solidarity today. Today, Friday 8th March, is International Women’s Day. Since Israel occupied the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza Strip in 1967, an estimated 10,000 Palestinian women have been arrested or detained under Israeli military orders. Write to …
Since Israel occupied the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza Strip in 1967, an estimated 10,000 Palestinian women have been arrested or detained under Israeli military orders. The majority of Palestinian women prisoners are subjected to mental pressure and torture through the process of their arrest. Beatings, insults, threats, sexual harassment and humiliation are all …
Morrison’s supermarket have failed to address whether they have independently investigated the source of dates, after concerns were raised that they may have been grown and were certainly packaged in an illegal Israeli settlement. The dates were labelled ‘made in Israel’. This follows Corporate Watch’s discovery of discarded Morrison’s labels for ‘made in Israel dates’ …
Lessons from Gaza conference Saturday 13 April 10.30-4.30 Brunei Gallery, SOAS (London University) Join us to discuss transforming public support into political action on Palestine. Book today to secure your place. The sessions are: 21st Century Palestine: new challenges, new opportunities Gaza: surviving siege, challenging occupation Challenges & opportunities for the solidarity movement Speakers include: …
Samer Issawi is on hunger strike in detention in Israel, in protest at the threat to imprison him for a further 20 years on trivial and secret charges. Join us in challenging this injustice. Samer served ten years before his release as part of the historic prisoners exchange deal on 18 October 2011. But following …
Prisoners: take action today Tell the Foreign Office they must pressure Israel to release Samer and the other political prisoners. Yesterday hunger striker, Samer Issawi, went to the civil court and was sentenced to 8 months imprisonment, which – backdated to the date of his arrest – would mean he would be released on 6th …