Israel’s denial of rights: a global story for Palestinians Israel’s apartheid and racism, its brutal occupation, its siege on Gaza, and its refusal to abide by international law manifests itself in the increasing suffering of Palestinians worldwide. A look at just a few events of the last week alone shows the appalling crisis point reached …
CWU unanimously passes motion on Veolia at conference in Bournemouth Today the Communication Workers Union (CWU) in the UK adopted a policy targeting Veolia due to its complicity in the illegal Israeli occupation. The motion (text below), tabled by Harrow and District branch of CWU, was endorsed by the National Executive Council of the CWU …
#votePalestine momentum growing Be part of PSC’s campaigning – join today We now have the responses of more than 800 candidates for voters to browse before deciding how to vote 7 May. The incumbent candidates and/or the main challengers have replied in more than 175 of the critical ‘battle-ground seats’. The high numbers of responses …
Filmmaker, Ken Loach, has urged everyone to back the campaign for sanctions on Israel. Sign the petition to push the government to impose immediate sanctions on Israel: Sign now!
This year again Palestine was centre stage at the National Union of Teacher’s annual delegates conference in Harrogate during the Easter weekend. Dozens of NUT delegates flocked to the PSC stall to sign the petition asking for sanctions on Israel, as well as finding out about our current campaigns and to purchase some essential …
Today we learned that the University of Southampton is considering cancelling a three-day conference which is due to take place in April to debate international law and Israel. Since the conference was announced, the university has come under intense pressure from the Zionist Federation UK, MPs and even a government minister – Eric Pickles – …
PSC analyses BBC Radio 4 ‘Today’ programme interview with the Israeli Defence Minister BBC News reaches 81% of the UK every week via tv, radio and online articles. That is a huge number of people to be misinforming about the nature of Israel’s occupation. PSC’s ‘Deconstructing the BBC’ series analyses BBC online articles and broadcasts …
‘Taste of Israel’ is a glossy, colour 32-page booklet which is being offered to shoppers at the supermarket chain, Waitrose, this month. The booklet passes off Palestinian/Arab dishes and ingredients such as za’atar, tahini and falafel as Israeli. And it contains tourist features on towns within Israel which, while mentioning their Ottoman past, ignore their …
Lets keep it up on Facebook and Twitter Over 18,500 messages have been sent to Parliamentary candidates! As the election grows ever closer (78 days and counting) we want to keep up the ante and reach 20,000 in the next week. Can you help us do it? If you haven’t already, share the VotePalestine e-tool: …
Will you put Palestine on the political map? As our #VotePalestine campaign continues to grow we are delighted to let you know that over 15,000 messages have been sent to candidates in 623 constituencies! However, whilst these are encouraging results, this really is just the beginning. It is vital for each candidate to receive …