Human Rights Watch, one of the most important human rights monitoring bodies, has released a landmark report exposing Israel’s violations of Palestinian human rights. Marking a truly seismic moment, the 213-page report found an “overarching Israeli government policy to maintain the domination by Jewish Israelis over Palestinians” which amounts to the crimes against humanity of …
In September 2021, Defence and Security Equipment International (DSEI), the world’s largest arms fair, is scheduled to return to London. At DSEI, weapons and military technology will be marketed to representatives of repressive states fueling racism and injustice. Using an action set up by PSC and CAAT, thousands of you wrote to the Labour, Conservative, …
As PSC gathers for its annual general meeting today, it condemns the hundreds of right wing Israelis who have been rampaging through the streets of Jerusalem chanting racist slogans such as “ Death to Arabs” whilst looking for Palestinians to attack, wounding many. Settler violence has long since become part of daily life for Palestinians …
Updated research released by PSC has identified that Local Government Pension Scheme funds continue to hold at least £4.4bn in companies complicit in Israel’s oppression of the Palestinian people. This includes companies supplying the Israeli military with weapons and military technology used against the civilian Palestinian population, and companies active in Israel’s illegal settlement enterprise. The research, an update of …
The evidence from the report by Professors Chalcraft and Dickens, that the publisher Pearson has changed the contents of two school textbooks following concerted pressure from the Board of Deputies (BoD) and UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI), is of deep concern. The Chalcraft and Dickens report finds that, taken as a whole, the alterations change …
Despite thousands of letters from members of the public, and a legal briefing from Lawyers for Palestinian Human Rights and the European Legal Support Center, CAF are still in the bid to provide rolling stock for HS2, Britain’s high-speed rail project. CAF operates the Jerusalem Light Railway, which solidifies Israel’s grip on occupied Palestinian land, including …
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 …
Join the UK Israeli Apartheid Week 2021 Twitterstorm. Be part of the global protest against colonialism, racism and apartheid. We may be socially distanced, but taking action together we can have an impact. Tweet between 12-2pm TODAY (17/03/2021) Tweet 1: Israel’s system of racialised discrimination against all parts of the Palestinian people amounts to …
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 …
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