The Palestine Solidarity Campaign, PSC, is very pleased to announce that it has appointed Ben Jamal as its new permanent Director. Ben is currently CEO of the Domestic Violence Intervention Project (DVIP). He is a long-standing PSC member and activist, and currently a member of the PSC Executive Committee and Chair of the PSC Richmond …
End the Siege on Gaza Background For the last ten years, the densely populated occupied Gaza Strip has been besieged by Israel, by land, sea and air. 1.8 million Palestinians, the vast majority of whom are refugees, are effectively trapped. After three major military assaults by Israeli forces in the last eight years, resulting in …
Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) has written to the UK Prime Minister to ask him to intervene against Israel’s collective punishment against Palestinians, in the wake of a violent attack in Tel Aviv. Hugh Lanning, chair of PSC, expressed sympathy for all the victims of violence, with at least 66 Palestinians and eight Israeli fatalities this year. “Every …
More than 100,000 Palestinians are being directly punished for the events that took place in Tel Aviv on Wednesday 8 June – 83,000 who have had their permits to enter Palestinian East Jerusalem and Israel removed during Ramadan and 65,000 who live in the West Bank town of Yatta, which has been completely closed down. The …
Report: National Day of Action on Hewlett Packard, Saturday 4th June 2016 At more than twenty locations around the UK on Saturday 4th June 2016, activists protested the involvement of technology giant Hewlett Packard (HP) in Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestine and its military infrastructure. PSC branches throughout the country organised pickets outside major stockists …
Jeremy Corbyn MP has asked lawyer and rights campaigner, Shami Chakrabarti, to lead an inquiry into antisemitism and other forms of racism including Islamophobia in the Labour Party. As an organisation dedicated to campaigning for the rights of Palestinians and opposing racism, oppression and discrimination PSC has given evidence to this inquiry. You can read our evidence here> We’ve …
PSC is an anti-racist organisation: standing up against oppression and discrimination is at the heart of everything that we do. That’s why we are giving evidence to the Labour Party’s Chakrabarti inquiry into antisemitism and racism. It is vital that antisemitism, Islamophobia and all forms of racism are not tolerated in our political parties, or elsewhere …
Denial of free speech for the “crime of being Palestinian” Palestine Solidarity Campaign have written to the Speakers’ Trust to express their disgust at the organisation’s silencing of a Palestinian schoolgirl. Leanne Mohamad was blocked from taking up her place in the grand final of the – ironically named – Jack Petchey “Speak Out Challenge” after …