Palestine Solidarity Campaign

Today MPs, Trade Unionists and civil society organisations are joining us to defend the right to protest and demand our government drop their proposal to give police new powers to effectively ban repeat protests based on their "cumulative disruption".

🚨 NEW EVENT - Land Day Webinar - The ongoing struggle against ethnic cleansing ⏰ Monday, 30 March, 6PM 📍 PSC YouTube Join us on our YouTube for this webinar to mark Land Day, when Palestinians commemorate the ongoing struggle against Israel’s colonial land grabs and honour Palestinian land defenders of past and present. Hear from renowned Palestinian scholars and activists speaking directly to the escalating threat of ethnic cleansing, its impact on specific communities and the inspiring ways in which Palestinians are resisting. More: palestinecampaign.org/events/land-da…

Palestine coalition statement - Why we must march: Stop bombing Iran, Hands off Lebanon, Free Palestine Read it here: palestinecampaign.org/why-we-must-ma…

The Crime and Policing Bill cannot be rushed through Parliament when fundamental freedoms, such as our right to protest, are at stake. My Question to the Leader of the House:

We know that the government is doing this to stop us marching for Palestine and maintain its complicity in Israel's ongoing genocide, but if this legislation becomes law, it could be used by this our any future government to stamp out protests altogether. We will not be silenced - sign our petition today. 5/5 palestinecampaign.eaction.org.uk/right-to-prote…

The meeting followed the joint 'Defend our Right to Protest' lobby day, co-organised by a broad range of civil society organisations and trade unions, which brought over 200 constituents to Parliament to tell their MPs to uphold their fundamental democratic rights and oppose this proposal. 4/5

Yesterday the UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Peaceful Assembly & of Association @Ginitastar warned MPs about the government's new & extreme attempts to effectively ban repeat protests based on their 'cumulative disruption', in a briefing organised by PSC and @BritishQuakers hosted by @AndyMcDonaldMP 1/5

🚨This Ramadan, make sure to boycott Israeli dates grown on stolen Palestinian land. Watch our guide below to boycotting Israeli dates below, and sign our petition to demand all supermarkets take Israeli produce off the shelves: palestinecampaign.eaction.org.uk/supermarkets

We must oppose this latest clamp down on the right to protest. Sign the petition to call on the government to withdraw the proposal. palestinecampaign.eaction.org.uk/right-to-prote…

Yesterday hundreds of constituents from across Britain took part in a mass lobby of Parliament to demand their MPs defend the right to protest and oppose the governments clause on cumulative disruption. The cumulative disruption clause would give the police new powers to effectively ban repeat protest.

The government is handing lucrative contracts to Palantir, a notorious US corporation providing AI and surveillance technology used as an essential part of Israel’s genocide in Gaza. TAKE ACTION: Write to Starmer to demand all contracts with Palantir are cancelled: palestinecampaign.eaction.org.uk/cancelpalantir…

🚨 The trial of PSC Director Ben Jamal and Stop the War vice-chair Chris Nineham has concluded today and the judge will announce his verdict on April 1st. Defence barrister Mark Summers KC said the case was a “ludicrous invitation to criminalise legitimate protected political speech about the misuse of state power against people’s civil liberties." He described their actions in the run up to the 18 January 2025 Palestine protest as nothing more than those of civic organisations engaging in political campaigning in a democracy. The police imposed conditions which had created widespread public criticism. On previous marches this had led to compromise with the police, but in this instance the police rejected that approach. Letters in support of the protest signed by members of Jewish organisations, Holocaust survivors, journalists, judges, politicians and others were disregarded. Mr Summers emphasised that Chris and Ben were both highly respected movement leaders with a long and extraordinary record of successfully organising some of the biggest demonstrations ever seen in this country. These were all managed in cooperation with the police and in accordance with conditions, even when there was disagreement about them. The court heard again how officers in the control room and on the ground were operating in complete ignorance of the flower delegation plan announced from the stage - that a small group would walk to the BBC to lay flowers or if stopped by police, lay them at the feet of police. This was a sensible, symbolic proposal to go some way towards achieving the original objective of the protest. It could only have succeeded with police permission and was not an unlawful intention. At the police cordons the delegation clearly understood they had been permitted to proceed through police lines, being told on one police bodycam “You’ve got to filter through.” There was no communication to the contrary and no reason to to believe that the police were instructing them to do something unlawful. Met Commander Slonecki acknowledged in his evidence that existing police conditions were subject to ad hoc changes on the ground as necessary. On the incitement charge against Ben Jamal, Mr Summers said that he “engaged in the very opposite of inciting people into a criminal breach of the conditions imposed by the police”. His criticism of the repression of the right to protest by the police was entirely legitimate and not an encouragement to break the law. The flower delegation represented “legitimate grievances channeled into a powerful, lawful act of political expression and symbolism.” Mr Summers ended by saying that the incitement charge was “utterly hopeless and you must acquit”.

Happy St Patrick's Day. The Irish people have always stood with Palestine in their struggle for freedom and justice. 🇵🇸 🇮🇪🍀

We must continue to build campaigns calling on councils to divest their pension funds from Israel’s atrocities. These campaigns are getting results. 32 councils in Britain have now backed divestment. Contact your local PSC branch to get involved: palestinecampaign.org/local-branches… (4/4)

It calls on London CIV to provide councils with investment options which exclude “all companies enabling Israel’s grave violations of international law”, and for a timeline to be set for divestment from these companies across all London CIV’s funds. (3/4)

BREAKING: 150+ London Councillors and Assembly Members have signed an open letter to London CIV, which manages investments for London councils’ pension funds, calling on it to divest from companies enabling Israel’s genocide and apartheid. Read more: palestinecampaign.org/letter-to-lond… (1/4)

📢 Together for Palestine March ⏰12PM, Sat 28 March 📍Exhibition Rd (Hyde Park end) On 28 March we march for Palestine again in central London before we join the @UKTogetherAll against the far right demo. Join us at Exhibition Road.