On Tuesday night the Slough Palestine Solidarity Campaign – as part of the PSC’s 1st Great Return Week – and other regional activists hosted an event near Henley on Palestinian daily life, centred on the troubles young people face in schools, in olive farming, and the prison system in the West Bank (from both settlers […]
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As part of our commitment to reach new parts of East Berkshire we set up last Saturday and the weeks before outside a shopping centre in Marlow, and spoke to residents about key campaigns like our boycott of Eurovision. Despite the winter weather it was a great success! Happy Christmas.
This graph from human rights group B’Tselem shows us a comparison of the number of Israeli and Palestinian civilian deaths, for the past two decades.
The Slough branch of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign was founded in the wake of Operation Protective Edge in 2014. Our committee and core members have shown their commitment to tackling the Israeli-Palestinian conflict by attending protests and rallies, sponsoring talks, putting pressure on parliamentarians or local government, spreading awareness through multi-media, networking with other pro-Palestinian […]
This is potentially huge. A Norwegian MP (Scandinavians showing us up again) has nominated the global BDS movement for a Nobel Prize. Winning a NP would at least put those who accuse BDS of *inherent* anti-semitism on the back foot, in the best case scenario we would have the upper hand in this PR battle […]
Hardcore Beitar Jerusalem fans known as La Familia have become infamous with their chants of ‘death to Arabs’. Photograph: Bernat Armangue/AP A club with supporters who openly avow racial purity and organize violent ultra-nationalist marches is third in the Israeli Premier League, behind only Hapoel Be’er Sheva and Maccabi Tel Aviv, and a hair’s breadth […]
In the spirit of openness we wanted to share a couple of the articles published by our old blog (now superseded by this website). The article linked to below was written in July 2015, in the wake of an inspiring lecture by the Norwegian doctor Mads Gilbert. It was my first ever entry on the […]
Talks are currently underway to provide Zaytoun produce on this website. Zaytoun is a collective of independent Palestinian farmers who’ve managed to make their own living in the shadow of the occupation. In 2004 they became the first in the world to receive the fair trade label for their olive oil, their Arabic namesake and […]
Here are pictures from our panel discussing anti-semitism, the accusations coming from the left and right and how they should be approached, and this issue’s relation to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.