2014: the year of solidarity with Palestinian people Thank you to alll our members and supporters – we really did make a difference in 2013! Here we have listed just a few of the key achievements of the year. The UN’s declaration that 2014 is the year of solidarity with Palestinian people is important. But …
letter to the Guardian on Gaza On the 27th and 28th December the Guardian published a letter from leading MPs, Peers and the Chair of Palestine Solidarity Campaign, calling for the blockade on Gaza to be lifted. Today, five years on from when Israel’s War on Gaza began, and more than six years on from Israel’s …
Palestine Solidarity Campaign welcomes the joint statement from the Embassy of the state of Palestine to the Republic of South Africa and BDS South Africa. The statement is published in full below: Clarification regarding comments made by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas whilst in South Africa on boycott of Israeli settlements and products Recent comments made …
Help PSC campaign for an end of the siege on Gaza Floods in Gaza – image from Globovision (cropped) – creative comms licence. Please help us get one of the longest blockade’s in human history lifted. Following floods and freezing temperatures, the situation in Gaza is now catastrophic. UNWRA have called for the immediate lifting …
Guidelines on Israeli settlements published Government guidelines on business involvement with Israeli settlements are a step forward, but much more needs to be done New advisory business risk guidance warns of the “clear risks related to economic and financial activities in the settlements, and we do not encourage or offer support to such activity”. The …
“The UN took a strong stand against apartheid; and over the years, an international consensus was built, which helped to bring an end to this iniquitous system. But we know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians. “ Nelson Mandela, photo credit South Africa – the Good News Nelson …
Stop the inhuman treatment of Palestinians in Gaza Don’t let the inhuman treatment of Palestinians in Gaza go unnoticedJoin the protest on Saturday 18th January from 12-2pm outside the Israeli Embassy A revealing and heartbreaking blog in the Independent reveals just how unbearable – and unsustainable – life in Gaza has become: most of the …
Artists, musicians and authors speak out against Israel’s ethnic cleansing Over 50 artists, writers, academics, trade union leaders, activists and politicians have today signed a letter against the Prawer Plan, published in the Guardian. Author Gillian Slovo, sculptor Antony Gormley, directors Mike Leigh and Ken Loach, musicians Peter Gabriel and Brian Eno, actor Julie Christie, …
Join Gillian Slovo, Antony Gormley, Mike Leigh, Ken Loach, Julie Christie, Brian Eno, Bella Freud, Peter Gabriel, John Akomfrah OBE, Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, Bidisha, Jeremy Deller, Rt Hon Sir Gerald Kaufman, MP, Jemima Khan, Dr. Susie Orbach and many others by signing our letter against the Prawer Plan. John Akomfrah OBE artist, film director, writer Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, author, journalist Rodney Bickerstaffe Bidisha writer, broadcaster Howard …
Palestinians are uniting to oppose the Prawer Plan, and they urgently need our support. If the Prawer Plan is enacted it will forcibly remove up to 70,000 Palestinian Bedouin from their homes and villages in the Naqab (the Negev). Although it has not yet been passed fully by the Israeli Parliament, villages are already under threat with a …