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 …
Members of one of the UK’s biggest supermarket chains votes to “cease all trading with Israel” at AGM Motion submitted by members of the Co-Op urges the board to “show moral courage and leadership” by taking “all Israeli products off the shelves” The vote is a major victory in the current PSC “Don’t Buy Apartheid” …
New research reveals Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) funds invest over £12billion in companies enabling Israel’s crimes Freedom of information requests have resulted in the most complete picture yet of the investments of 81 out the total of 86 LGPS funds Hundreds of millions invested in arms companies supplying Israel with weapons including BAE Systems, …
Coffee shop chain Pret has pulled out of its planned investment in Israel, with media sources citing the threat of a boycott campaign by Palestine solidarity activists. In 2022 UK coffee chain Pret signed a franchise agreement with Israeli conglomerate Fox Group and restaurant operator Yarzin Sella to open 40 stores in Israel over the …
Thousands of people vow not to bank with Barclays until it ends its complicity with Israeli genocide and apartheid Over 1000 people collectively close their Barclays accounts today (21 March 2024) on second mass account closure day. This adds to the 1500 that shut their Barclays accounts on the first account closure day, 9 February …
Thousands of people vow not to bank with Barclays until it ends its complicity with Israeli genocide and apartheid 1500 people collectively close their Barclays accounts today (Friday 9 February) Thousands more pledge never to bank with Barclays, in echo of South African anti-apartheid struggle Barclays is condemned for its financial ties with arms companies …
Campaigners force global sports brand PUMA to drop sponsorship of Israel Football Association (IFA) over involvement in illegal settlements The IFA includes clubs in Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory in contravention of international law PUMA has faced huge public pressure over its links with IFA PSC branches across Britain have played an …
‘Don’t give the green light to further violence and violations of international law,’ Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) urges, as the government prepares to return repressive anti-boycott bill to Parliament The Economic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) bill, or anti-boycott bill, has been scheduled for report stage in the House of Commons on Wednesday …
On Saturday 23rd September 2023 hundreds of protesters descended on more than 25 Barclays branches across Britain to demand the bank divests from arms companies supplying Israel with weapons used in its attacks on Palestinians The campaigners were taking part in a National Day of Action organised by Palestine Solidarity Campaign, War on Want …
Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) welcomes the announcement by the Welsh Government that it is formally opposing the Economic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) Bill, better known as the ‘anti-boycott bill’ and recommending that the Senedd withhold its consent This decision by the Welsh Labour Government is the latest blow to Michael Gove’s toxic anti-boycott …