Channel 4’s new series The Jump began airing Sunday 26th January 2014. The series is sponsored by SodaStream, which has a factory located in the West Bank settlement of Ma’ale Adumim (the factory is in the settlement’s industrial sector, Mishor Adumim). This is the web homepage for The Jump, with ‘Sponsored by SodaStream’ prominent on …
Thank you to all the PSC members who came to PSC’s AGM. This is an important day for Palestine Solidarity, where members decide the priorities and focus for the following year’s campaigning. If you would like to get involved in PSC’s decision making, please join PSC The AGM agreed that exposing the Israeli state’s denial …
Viewers and listeners bombard BBC Director General over broadcasters links to G4S Over 2000 BBC viewers and listeners have contacted the BBC to urge it not to award G4S with a security contract worth £80 million. G4S services Israeli prisons to which Palestinian prisoners are illegally transferred in serious violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention …
Israeli settlements are built on stolen Palestinian land and are illegal under international law. Sainsbury’s uses suppliers that trade in products from illegal Israeli settlements. In April 2013, The Co-operative stated that in line with its ethical policy it would ‘no longer engage with any supplier of produce known to be sourcing from the Israeli settlements’. Please take action to pressure Sainsbury’s to …
Palestine Solidarity Campaign’s written evidence for the International Development Committee’s inquiry has been published. The International Development Committee is a group of MPs officially tasked with examining the policies, practices and spending of the Department for International Development (DfID). Their inquiry is examining the UK’s Development Work in the Middle East. PSC submitted evidence on DfID’s …
The Palestine Solidarity Campaign works for peace & justice for Palestinians, in support of human rights & against all racism BDS IS having an impact. The Electronic Intifada reports that the British ambassador in Tel Aviv has warned Israel it faces increasing isolation and expresses his concern “that in five years Israel will wake up …
A petition signed by 3,885 people calling for an end to the siege on Gaza was handed into Downing Street on Friday 17 January 2014. It was handed in by: Mahmoud Sarsak, Palestinian footballer and former prisoner and hunger striker Haya Al Farra from the Palestinian Mission and Ziad Elaloul from Palestinian Forum of Britain …
More than 500 hundred gathered to protest against the on-going blockade and bombing of Gaza, on the 5th anniversary of the end of Israel’s massive military assault on Gaza. The protest took place close to the Israeli Embassy, and demonstrators heard from Baroness Jenny Tonge, Andy Slaughter MP and former former prisoner and hunger striker, …
To mark 5 years since Israel’s massive onslaught against the Palestinian people in Gaza, Palestine Solidarity Campaign are stepping up the campaign for an end to the 6 year blockade of Gaza. On Friday 17th January 2014 a petition calling for a lifting of the blockade will be presented at Number 10, Downing Street. On Saturday …
Join our protest against the siege on Gaza Saturday 18 January 2014, 12 noon – 2pm opposite the Israeli Embassy, Kensington High St, London W8 5NP Protest vigil – 5 years on from the end of Israel’s 2008/9 massacre in Gaza Join us to protest for justice for the victims of Israel’s massacre and against …