press release Date of issue: 1 May 2013 For immediate release BBC’s Newsnight admits error over scale of Israeli occupation of West Bank The BBC has admitted that a Newsnight report which implied that only part of the West Bank is under occupation was inaccurate. The claim that there is a difference between ‘West Bank …
press release Date of issue: 22nd April 2013 For immediate release G4S withdrawal from selected contracts with Israel won’t end its complicity in abuses of Palestinian human rights Responding to the Financial Times article confirming that G4S is planning to leave some Israeli contracts following protests, Sarah Colborne, Director of Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC), said: …
On Wednesday 17thApril people across Britain will protest against local contracts with G4S because of their involvement in human rights violations (see information below). Local residents will hand out leaflets detailing how G4S profits from Israel’s illegal detention and torture of Palestinians including children.The 17thApril is the global day of solidarity with Palestinian prisoners. Currently …
Joint Statement of the Palestinian Human Rights Organizations Council (PHROC) & the Arab Association for Human Rights on the Death of Prisoner Maysra Abu Hamdiya Occupied Ramallah, 3 April 2013 – It is with a deep sense of mourning and outrage that the Palestinian Human Rights Organizations Council (PHROC) and the Arab Association for Human …
The BBC has admitted that a reference it made to Israeli soldiers dying on the same day US activist Rachel Corrie was crushed to death by an Israeli bulldozer in Gaza was not ‘duly accurate’. No Israeli soldiers were killed on that day. The claim was made by veteran BBC presenter, Martha Kearney, on BBC …
PRESS RELEASE 26th March 2013 – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE UNION DEFEATS LEGAL CHALLENGE ALLEGING ANTISEMITISM: RIGHT TO ADVOCATE BOYCOTT OF ISRAEL UPHELD * Judgment says that complainant was trying to use the law for political purposes * Employment Tribunal result hailed as important victory by pro-Palestinian groups BRICUP today welcomed the outcome of the Employment …
Responding to the news that Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu apologised to Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan today (22 March), Sarah Colborne, Director of Palestine Solidarity Campaign, who was on the Mavi Marmara, said: ‘Israel is not known for apologising for its crimes. Today, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu was forced to apologise for its attack on …
Morrison’s supermarket have failed to address whether they have independently investigated the source of dates, after concerns were raised that they may have been grown and were certainly packaged in an illegal Israeli settlement. The dates were labelled ‘made in Israel’. This follows Corporate Watch’s discovery of discarded Morrison’s labels for ‘made in Israel dates’ …
You may have heard about SodaStream recently, it is a company which produces devices for home carbonating your drink. As ‘Trading Away Peace’ – a report by 22 NGOs – states: “The main factory is in the Mishor Adummim industrial zone in the West Bank. Mishor Adummim is part of Ma’ale Adummim, one of the …
For immediate release On Saturday 9 February, protesters will be taking action outside branches of Sainsburys and other supermarkets around the UK. Palestinian agricultural organisations and the Palestinian BDS National Committee have called for the launching of worldwide campaigns on February 9 against Israeli agricultural export corporations in light of their deep complicity in Israel’s …