Ban settlement goods – MPs join the call To help support the movement for Palestine in Britain, join Palestine Solidarity Campaign today This week at Foreign Office Questions, MPs pressed the Government to take action to exclude settlement goods from UK shelves. MP Grahame Morris asked Foreign Secretary, William Hague, to consider introducing a ban …
In Foreign Office Questions William Hague was pressed yet again on settlement goods. When it was put to him by Richard Burden MP that excluding settlement goods would be lawful, he did not disagree but said it was about what best promoted ‘peace’ rather than the law. Many MPs would argue that the best way …
PSC demands answers from BBC Director General PSC is undertaking important work tackling the institutional pro-Israel bias at the BBC. But we need your support to continue. PSC and five other organisations have written to the Director General of the BBC to ask if political pressure was responsible for the dropping of the documentary, Jerusalem: …
To discuss Palestinian child prisoners. Lisa Nandy MP, Shadow Minister for Children, Sir Geoffrey Bindman QC, Jude Lanchin – one of the lawyers who was part of the CIMC delegation and Kiri Tunks – convenor of Action for Palestinian Children will be discussing: ‘One year on – Children in Military Custody report’ For more information about the meeting> Ask …
THURSDAY 13 JUNE 2013 1. Iraq War (10th Anniversary): – Jeremy Corbyn: Recalls the Palestinian refugees who from the Gulf States went to Iraq only to be expelled after the invasion, as well as those who ended up in Syrian refugee camps, having been driven out of Haifa in 1948; they now joined the stream of refugees out of Syria. – Michael …
press release For immediate release BBC Director General faces claims that political pressure led BBC to drop film on ‘Jewish exile’ Six leading pro-Palestinian organisations have written to the BBC’s Director General asking for answers over the pulling of a documentary which claims that the mass Jewish exodus from Jerusalem in 70 AD may never …
On Friday 7th June 2013 Palestine Solidarity Campaign joined many other groups and the Palestinian Ambassador, Prof Manuel Hassassian, outside the Israeli Embassy.
press release For immediate release G4S Annual General Meeting dominated by controversy over Israeli prison contracts G4S’ involvement in the detention of Palestinian children in Israeli jails dominated the company’s Annual General Meeting today, overshadowing all other business, including last year’s Olympic security fiasco. The AGM was also interrupted by protestors shouting ‘Who killed Jimmy …
MPs and Peers continue to step up the pressure on the Government against settlements, settlers’ behaviour and settlement trade THURSDAY 6 JUNE 2013 1. Bob Blackman: What discussions has DfID had with Israel about social assistance payments to Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails? Commons Written Answers WEDNESDAY 5 JUNE 2013 1. Richard Burden: What recent reports has Foreign Secretary …