On Tuesday 9th September 2014, Dr Mustafa Barghouti shared with hundreds of Palestinian human rights supporters – gathered to lobby their MPs – his eye-witness account about the situation in Gaza. Please be aware the contents of his speech and presentation are extremely disturbing and upsetting. Thank you to @GillSwain1 for videoing this for PSC.
On Wednesday 10th September the TUC overwhelmingly endorsed a statement from its General Council supporting Gaza and justice and freedom for Palestine. The statement calls on the UK government and the EU to immediately end the arms trade with Israel, and calls for the suspension of the EU-Israel Association Agreement until the rights of the …
On Tuesday 9th September, Dr Mustafa Barghouti, the Palestinian MP, member of the PLO’s Central Council, and General Secretary of the Palestinian National Initiative, addressed Palestine Solidarity Campaign activists in London. Dr Barghouti, a medical doctor, was in Gaza during Israel’s latest massacre. He spoke to a packed hall of 400 people on the day …
Gaza: let down by the BBC and mainstream media? Palestine Solidarity Campaign brought together the film director Ken Loach, columnist and commentator Owen Jones, the BBC’s former Middle East correspondent, Tim Llewellyn, and Greg Philo, director of the Glasgow Media Group, to debate where the mainstream media got it right, and where it got it wrong, …
The BBC continues to flood its airwaves with Israeli spokespeople when reporting on the assault on Gaza, and it allows those spokespeople to trot out Israeli propaganda lines which are complete falsehoods. These propaganda lines go unchallenged by BBC interviewers and, the majority of the time, the BBC does not invite a Palestinian spokesperson onto …
David Cameron’s failure to condemn Israel’s massacre in Gaza was attacked by MPs and other speakers today at a mass rally in London’s Hyde Park in support of the Palestinians. Speakers also called for sanctions and an arms embargo on Israel. More than 150,000 people marched from the BBC studios in Portland Place, past the …
Date: Saturday 9th August Time: Assemble at midday outside BBC Broadcasting House, Portland Place, London W1A 1AA For march to Hyde Park via the US Embassy Details of coaches to London from around the country available on facebook> 9 August demo postcard available on day. Pressure is mounting on the government over its silence and inaction over …
‘It’s time to ditch Garnier’. That’s the message from Palestinian human rights organisation, Palestine Solidarity Campaign, as it emerged that Garnier has, over the last few days, provided ‘care packages’ of face creams, deodorants, soaps and other cosmetics to female members of the Israeli army. The company says it has provided the ‘girly’ packages to …
FAQs in response to Israel’s massacre in Gaza, July-August 2014. Written by Gill Swain, PSC’s Publications Officer Q. Why have hostilities escalated in Palestine-Israel? A. The background to the tragic events unfolding in Gaza is Israel’s military occupation of the Palestinian territories which has been going on for 47 years. Israel regularly commits dreadful crimes …