PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Date: 2 August 2023 Contact: media@palestinecampaign.org | 07549 018112 Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) welcomes Scottish Government decision to formally oppose the Economic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) Bill, better known as the ‘anti-boycott bill.’ Ben Jamal, Director of Palestine Solidarity Campaign UK (PSC), says, This decision by the Scottish …
Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) welcomes the decision of Unite the Union, Britain’s second biggest union, to reaffirm its strong support for the Palestinian-led Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign for freedom and justice, in 3 motions passed at its Conference today A central motion passed by the Union calls on the UK government to abandon …
Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) and partners call emergency protest against Israel’s brutal and indiscriminate attack on Jenin refugee camp Hundreds expected to protest outside Israeli embassy in London MPs and trade union representatives to speak and call for an end to Israel’s system of militarised apartheid The Palestinian people are once again under attack. Israel …
Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) joined by nearly 70 civil society organisations in pledging to fight the Economic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) bill, or anti-boycott bill, as a threat to basic democratic rights. The anti-boycott bill aims to prevent public bodies from deciding how to spend, invest and trade ethically, in line with international …
Campaigners protest at Barclays Annual General Meeting today to demand the bank ends its complicity in Israeli apartheid, as it was forced to do in relation to South African apartheid in the 1980s Barclays invests over £1 billion in, and provides £3 billion in loans to, companies supplying weapons to Israel – used to …
Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) to hold an online Rally for Palestine on Tuesday March 7th in response to the increasing intensity of repression of Palestinians by Israel’s far right extremist government Rally will hear from Palestinian speakers from inside Palestine and from UK speakers who will address the inadequacy of the UK response, including John …
Students across Britain in Day of Action on 17th February to demand universities end complicity in Israeli apartheid. Action takes place in context of Israel’s newly elected far right Government intensifying oppression of Palestinians Day of action has also been called in response to efforts by the UK Government to repress the right to protest …
Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) condemns Israel’s brutal murder of 9 Palestinians in Jenin today and called upon the UK Government to end its complicity with Israel’s ongoing criminal violation of Palestinian rights. The slaughter of 9 Palestinians in Jenin today brings the toll of those killed by Israeli forces in the West Bank since the …
PSC expresses deep concern at the outcome of an investigation into antisemitism in the NUS Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) has today issued a statement expressing its deep concerns at the outcome of the investigation by Rebecca Tuck KC into antisemitism within the National Union of Students (NUS). The report released today follows the dismissal of …
Palestine Solidarity Campaign calls on UK Government to take action to prevent Israeli Government’s imminent, wholesale destruction of Palestinian homes and villages, and the eviction of over 1000 residents in Masafer Yatta In what threatens to be its largest act of ethnic cleansing for many years, Israeli authorities are beginning the mass expulsion of …