UK student conference: driving forward campus BDS Students from over 35 different UK universities converged in Manchester at the weekend for a national conference on campus Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaigning. The two day gathering included workshops on researching universities’ complicity with Israeli apartheid, effective divestment campaigning, building coalitions on campus, winning the case …
PSC endorses Palestinian civil society statement on IHRA Palestine Solidarity Campaign welcomes and endorses the statement issued today from a broad coalition of Palestinian civil society organisations, calling upon the Labour Party and wider public bodies to reject the IHRA definition of antisemitism (statement follows below, original here). The call references similar statements issued by …
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 …
We are calling on the Government to ban trade with Israel’s illegal settlements. Words of condemnation are not sufficient to prevent the colonisation of Palestine. Now is the time for action! For the last 50 years Israel has been expanding settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, displacing entire Palestinian communities in the process. …
Guardian letter about the Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement Nathan Thrall’s article is a welcome in-depth, and accurate account of an unjustly slandered campaign. He gets to the crux of the issues BDS activists highlight: that Israel has established a one-state reality that privileges the rights of Jews while denying rights to Palestinians and …
Palestinians in the UK speak out for the right to freedom of speech 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 existence, in the …
London council to debate banning those calling for Israel boycott on grounds of ‘antisemitism’ FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 31 July 2018 Contact: Hilary Aked, Media and Communications Officer, Palestine Solidarity Campaign hilary.aked [at] palestinecampaign.org / 07590862268 London council to debate banning those calling for Israel boycott on grounds of ‘antisemitism’ Council to debate banning organisations boycotting …
Palestine Solidarity Campaign calls on Foreign Secretary to demand Israel immediately release all flotilla participants and end the illegal siege of Gaza The Palestine Solidarity Campaign today sent the following urgent letter to UK Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt. Dear Foreign Secretary, Open letter re: ensuring safe passage of the 2018 International Freedom Flotilla and …
Urgent action: Please take a minute to contact the Foreign Secretary about Kahn al-Ahmar https://palestinecampaign.iparlsetup.com/lobby/KhanAl-Ahmar-Action On Wednesday 4 July, an Israeli bulldozer began the demolition of the village of Khan al-Ahmar in the occupied West Bank. This latest act of destruction laid bare Israel’s determination to sweep aside Palestinian families and livelihoods in order to …