Ben Jamal

PERSONAL STATEMENT: 6 years ago my partner of 40 years was diagnosed with early onset dementia. She had to give up work, although she was able to maintain a level of independence for a time. This left me able to lead PSC in its response to Israel’s genocide against the Palestinian people. However her condition has deteriorated and I am no longer able to give the full time I need to the role of PSC Director. That job is too important to be done by someone who cannot devote the time required to fulfil its responsibilities in full. With sadness I have made the decision to resign. As many of you know, I am appealing against the outrageous conviction I received alongside Chris Nineham of Stop the War Coalition for leading the peaceful protest on January 18th 2024. The date for our appeal was confirmed yesterday as being December 14th. I will ensure that I am able to devote the time required to enable a successful appeal, and PSC will continue to fully support that process. I'm proud of the work that PSC - through its outstanding staff team and network of now over 100 branches - has done to build the campaign for Palestinian rights in the UK, in the past 10 years, becoming Europe's largest Palestine solidarity organisation. The movement for Palestinian liberation has been and will remain the cause of my life, and I hope and intend to be able to continue to remain active in support of it. However right now, my priority has to be my family alongside my court appeal.

BREAKING: ELSC & PILC have filed a complaint with the Bar Standards Board naming senior barristers and UKLFI patrons over alleged misuse of professional status: • Lord David Pannick KC • Lord Anthony Grabiner KC • Stephen Hockman KC 🔗 elsc.support/elsc-pilc-file…

🚨BREAKING NEWS: London Mayor, Sadiq Khan, blocks £50million Met police deal with Palantir This is a massive win for our campaigning - over 1,000 PSC supporters in London emailed the Mayor to demand he intervene in the lead up to this decision. Now, we demand Keir Starmer cancels all contracts with Palantir - take action now! palestinecampaign.eaction.org.uk/cancelpalantir…

🚨Following our campaigning, London Mayor Sadiq Khan has intervened to stop a £50million Met Police contract with Palantir. Palantir supplies Israel with AI and surveillance technology used in its genocide in Gaza. It should not receive a penny of public money. (1/5) theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/m…

An American Jew who was born in New York in 1944 and an Ethiopian Jew born in Ethiopia can both turn up and get citizenship, rights, votes, land, homes. Palestinians who were born there, whose families have have lived there for generations, remain refugees in the surrounding countries, denied a right to return to their lands, despite holding onto keys and property deeds. This is Zionism.

Grotesque tweet from someone who is platformed and presents himself as an anti racist. Nakba denial is rooted in ignorance or racism. Rich is not ignorant. He knows these" facts" are not true. He knows for example that Palestinian citizens of Israel have never been treated as equal. For 18 years after 1948 they lived under martial law. He is an apologist for colonisation, apartheid and ethnic cleansing and now for genocide.

Our statement on the police’s more or less open campaign against the Palestine movement…

Peter Leary, PSC Deputy Director, closing our momentous march commemorating 78 years of Nakba. We won't stop rallying in the streets, boycotting, or demanding divestments and sanctions until Palestine is free ✊️🇵🇸

"British Palestinians feel ‘gaslit’ and unable to speak out, says leading activist. Ahead of Nakba march, Sara Husseini says many feel they are being treated as suspects rather than victims of mass suffering" theguardian.com/society/2026/m…

They killed 3 children in Gaza today, in the midst of a supposed ceasefire, but they’re Palestinians so their lives don’t count. I am trying to imagine the media coverage of Hamas killed 3 Israeli children today.

...is designed to repress and chill opposition to British complicity in Israel's apartheid and genocide. It won't work. It won't work just as it hasn't for the past 2 and a half years.

They did this to allow a march by about 40 children from The Gordon Public School. The rationale was that this was an annual event in honour of General Gordon and so had priority .We agreed to accommodate the march and shifted some of our timings. This political policing....

Note how @JustinOnWeb tries to shield @metpoliceuk from accusations of political policing by claiming that the reason they refused to allow the annual Nakba Day march to finish, as usual, in Whitehall was that they were already in discussions with @TRobinsonNewEra .

Today we commemorate the 78th year of the ongoing Nakba by marching in London. We are a diverse movement that recognises the struggle for Palestinian rights is founded on rejecting all racism and bigotry - @PeterLeary PSC Deputy Director

"British complicity in the dispossession and mass murder of Palestinians is not only a story of the past—it is still the reality today." Ryvka Barnard PSC Deputy Director newarab.com/opinion/we-won…

Stop the lies about the Palestine Coalition @metpoliceuk The suggestion that our marches pose a threat comparable to that of the far-right mobilisation is ridiculous. As the Met knows full well our march on Saturday, like all our marches, will be peaceful and orderly 🇵🇸 Nakba78 - Exhibition Rd to Pall Mall ⏰ Assemble midday 📍Exhibition Rd, London

The slurs against Misan Harriman, being argued by one of Britain’s most prominent Jewish voices, as dangerously false and detrimental. Daniel Levy writes: ‘Serious work needs to be done in reclaiming the anti-antisemitism agenda from the hands of extremists. That Israeli statecraft sees benefit in positioning the state as the Jew on the international stage, thereby conflating Jewishness with Israel’s actions, does not make it true. Nor does the enthusiasm with which some diaspora Jewish organizations and individuals embrace this conflation. In reality, these are reckless, irresponsible positions, fueling and encouraging the very antisemitism they claim to oppose.’ open.substack.com/pub/zeteo/p/mi…

There is a question often thrown at those who protest and march for the Palestinian people on the streets of London- Why do you care so much about a “ conflict” thousands of miles away? It is not a genuine question- It is an accusation built on the premiss that there must be a sinister motivation, rooted in hatred. There is an answer which speaks to the principle that lies at the heart of all internationalist solidarity- that justice has no borders- that an injury to anyone anywhere is an injury to everyone everywhere. It is an answer that is also a riposte to those organising what is a hate march tomorrow- the far right - who believe that what truly binds people is not a common humanity but the identifying markers of nationality, race, religion or ethnicity . But there is a second answer which Karma Nabulsi the Palestinian academic and activist always used to give to this question- “Because Palestinian history is British history.” Tomorrows march is both a protest and a commemoration. It commemorates the Nakba, the catastrophe enacted between 1947 and 1948, which saw the state of Israel established through a process of mass ethnic cleansing of Palestinians - Over 750k driven into exile including most of my extended family- over 500 Palestinians towns and villages wiped off the map. This great crime was the inevitable outcome of a Zionist project driven by the belief that the Jewish people had a right to colonise Palestine and establish their own state. This was a truth openly acknowledged by Jabotinsky – the Godfather of revisionist Zionism , the ideology, which ,through Likud, has dominated Israeli politics in the last 78 years. He once wrote “ it is utterly impossible to obtain the voluntary consent of the Palestine Arabs for converting Palestine from an Arab country into a country with a Jewish majority". Such a project ,he knew , could only be enacted via the use of overwhelming force. But the Nakba which is protested tomorrow is not a moment of historical trauma but an ongoing process of enforcing a system of racist domination though ethnic cleansing, colonisation, dispossession, murder , torture, and now genocide. And the roots of all of this lie in the Balfour declaration , and the 28 years of British mandate during which the British state, accepting the racist logic of Zionism laid the pathway for the inevitable act of violent dispossession that is the Nakba . Remember Balfour’s words “Zionism , be it right or wrong, … is rooted in age long traditions…. In future hopes of far profounder import than the desires and prejudices of the 700,000 Arabs who now inhabit that ancient land” Never mind that when Balfour wrote those words , those 700k Arabs constituted 94% of the population. Not only has Britain never acknowledged its historical responsibilities, it has for 78 years, continued to be a willing partner in the enactment of Israel’s system of racist oppression, maintaining that active complicity even as the crime of apartheid descended into the crime of genocide. So those marching tomorrow do so because they understand this history .They march because they understand that opposition to the racism that will be exhibited on the Tommy Robinson march ,which threatens the future of marginalised communities in the Uk, demands opposition to all systems of racist oppression wherever they exist. Nelson Mandela understood this when he said that the freedom of the South African people from the chains of apartheid would be incomplete until Palestinians were also free. That is why people will chant as they march tomorrow – in our thousands and our millions we are all Palestinians. This is not a march of hate . It is a march in support of the principles that bind us all, rooted in a love of our common humanity.

This annual parade is the naked face of Israel's regime of racist domination. Remember it was once attended by @chiefrabbi alongside his predecessor Sacks. ‘God gave us this city’: Israeli nationalists join Jerusalem Day protest to mark city’s capture theguardian.com/world/2026/may…

NEW: Seven of the ten Welsh government Cabinet members made our Senedd Pledge for Palestine, meaning they support Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions!   The pledge has been made by almost 40% of Senedd Members, including almost 80% of Plaid Cymru MSs, both Green MSs, & one Labour MS.