This is an urgent request for action as the communities of two Bedouin villages are under the immediate threat of demolition. Earlier this year we wrote to you about two Bedouin villages under threat of demolition. Almost six thousand of you wrote to your MPs asking them to demand the foreign secretary protests in the strongest terms …
Last week we sent a letter to Ben Gummer, the recently appointed Minister of the Cabinet Office. Enclosed were the signatures of 8,759 of you. These were the signatures of the almost nine thousand of you who signed a postcard from Palestine, as a petition against Government proposals to curtail our right to boycott. Earlier …
Dr Yasser Abu Jamei, Director of the Gaza Mental Health Programme was due to be speaking on our parliamentary cross party panel, but was unable to join us as he was not granted a travel permit by Jordan, and therefore not granted a permit to cross Erez checkpoint by Israel. Following the event, Yasser wrote a …
To mark the 2nd anniversary since the start of operation protective edge – the Israeli bombardment of Gaza during the 2014 summer, PSC with the support of Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP), organised a cross-party panel event in Parliament. The event, chaired by SNP’s Dr Philippa Whitford MP, was an inspiring morning, with moving talks …
The findings of the The Shami Chakrabarti Inquiry have been welcomed by Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC). Sara Apps, interim Director of PSC, said: “This is a sensible report, and we welcome its recommendations. We particularly welcome the fact that legitimate criticism of Israeli government policies with regard to the Palestinians and the occupation have not …
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 …
Palestine Solidarity Campaign has written to six main party leaders – including the Prime Minister and Leader of the Opposition – calling for them to support Palestinian human rights and defend the right to support boycott, divestment and sanctions. The letters call for them to support sanctions against Israel to persuade Israel “to peacefully to …