PSC Response on Gavin Williamson’s Statement
Palestine Solidarity Campaign is deeply concerned by the statement issued by Gavin Williamson to all Headteachers advising them how to deal with pupils bringing concerns about recent events in Palestine/Israel into the classroom. We recognise the duties of schools and colleges to ensure impartiality when facilitating political discussions in the classroom. We also believe that …
PSC response to the Jerusalem Declaration on antisemitism
The Jerusalem Declaration (JDA), signed by over 200 of the world’s leading scholars in Antisemitism Studies and related fields, including Jewish, Holocaust, Israel, Palestine and Middle East Studies, should be welcomed as a significant improvement upon the deeply flawed and controversial IHRA working definition of antisemitism. The JDA affirms what advocates of Palestinian human rights …
List of IAW 2021 Events
Israeli Apartheid Week 2021 is global and massive virtual protest to resist racial discrimination, colonialism, and apartheid and celebrate our struggles’ diversity and connectedness. Student Palestine Societies, and other campaigning groups, have organised amazing webinars and events to act as a loudspeaker against racism and Israeli apartheid. All credit goes to the student societies in …
Protecting Palestinian Rights and Academic Freedom
PSC campaigns in support of the rights of the Palestinian people and against the injustices they suffer because of the actions of the state of Israel. This injustice is manifest in the ongoing process of colonisation and ethnic cleansing that saw over 750,000 Palestinians forced to flee from their homes in 1948, and subsequently denied …
PSC’s Response to the Publication of the EHRC Report
Palestine Solidarity Campaign’s work for the rights and freedoms of the Palestinian people is rooted in opposition to all forms of racism. This involves not only challenging and opposing individual prejudice but any belief or ideology that suggests people have superiority over others based on race, ethnicity, culture or religion, and any laws and policies …
PSC responds to Government’s anti-BDS threat
The Conservative party announced in its manifesto an intention to introduce legislation to prohibit public bodies from imposing their own direct or indirect boycott divestment or sanctions (BDS) campaigns against foreign countries . The accompanying statement by Robert Jenrick , Communities Secretary that such boycotts fuel antisemitism made it clear that this policy was solely …
Watch: Director Ben Jamal speaks at ‘Standing with Palestine’ meeting in Tower Hamlets
Hear PSC director Ben Jamal speak at the ‘Standing with Palestine’ public meeting in Tower Hamlets on November 5th, on the council’s decision to disallow the Big Ride finishing in Altab Ali park, and the use of the IHRA definition to conflate legitimate criticism of Israel with antisemitism.
PSC says it is time to talk about Palestine
PSC says it is time to talk about Palestine PSC regrets the Labour Party National Executive Committee’s (NEC) decision to adopt the IHRA definition of antisemitism despite many calls to reject it, most importantly from a coalition of Palestinian civil society organisations, the Joint List of Palestinian members of the Knesset and representatives of the …
Migrant, Refugee, and BAME Communities Speak out
Migrant, Refugee, and BAME Communities Speak out Against Public Silence As migrant and BAME groups in Britain, we reaffirm our fundamental right to the freedom of expression, and publicly to express our anxieties about the suppression of information on the history and lived experience of our communities. Many of us arrived in the UK as …
Palestinians in the UK speak out for the right to freedom of speech
Leading figures, including Prof Karma Nabulsi, Prof Kamel Hawwash, and Dr Ghada Karmi, put their community’s point of view: The fundamental right to free expression, guaranteed by article 10 of the Human Rights Act, is first and foremost the right to “receive and impart information and ideas without interference by public authority”. We write to provide news of our …