PSC condemns Israel’s plan to escalate its genocidal assault on the Gaza Strip, including through the military occupation of Gaza City, displacing all the Palestinians who remain there. Israel’s Security Cabinet yesterday agreed a proposal for the “takeover of Gaza City”. Netanyahu has separately said that Israel will “take control of all Gaza”. We must …
PSC condemns Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s statement on Tuesday which fails to address the urgent pressure needed for Israel to end its genocide in Gaza. It shamefully frames the Palestinian right to self-determination within the context of Israel’s actions, rather than as an inalienable right of the Palestinian people. Tuesday’s announcement came in part …
One of the UK’s biggest supermarket chains confirms it will stop sourcing products and services from Israel because of its human rights abuses and violations of international law Today the Coop has announced that Israel is one of a number of countries from which it will not source products and services, beginning this month This …
PSC utterly condemns the government’s disgraceful plan to proscribe the non-violent direct action group Palestine Action as terrorists, part of a wider crackdown on those protesting for Palestinian rights. Such a repressive step will only serve to degrade the meaning of terrorism and further undermine all of our civil liberties and democratic freedoms. The overwhelming …
20 months into its genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, Israel has launched new major strikes on sites across Iran, which have killed and wounded civilians. Emboldened by the total impunity afforded to it by western governments, Israel has, once again, brought the entire region to the brink of war. Such a war would …
Press comment: PSC says sanctions against far-right Israeli ministers are long-overdue but remain inadequate Responding to the news that Britain will impose sanctions on Itamar Ben-Gvir, the Israeli security minister, and Bezalel Smotrich, the finance minister, Palestine Solidarity Campaign Director Ben Jamal said: “These sanctions against two far-right Israeli ministers are a long-overdue acceptance by …
The Palestine Coalition condemns in the strongest terms Israel’s unlawful hijacking of the Madleen, a ‘Freedom Flotilla’ boat flying under a British flag, and its detention of the 12 civilians on board. The civilians on board the Madleen were attempting to deliver aid to the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip, to symbolically break Israel’s …
New polling reveals huge British public support for arms embargo on Israel by the UK government alongside other sanctions. The British public support a full arms embargo on Israel by more than 4 to 1, including 72% of those who voted Labour in 2024. 54% of the British public support Israel being expelled from the …
Members of one of the UK’s biggest supermarket chains votes to “cease all trading with Israel” at AGM Motion submitted by members of the Co-Op urges the board to “show moral courage and leadership” by taking “all Israeli products off the shelves” The vote is a major victory in the current PSC “Don’t Buy Apartheid” …
For 20 months Israel has devastated Gaza – killing over 54,000 Palestinians including more than 15,000 children, destroying over 90% of housing, and damaging or destroying over 90% of hospitals. None of this was enough to make you act to impose meaningful sanctions and a full arms embargo. None of this was a red line …