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MPs call for review of arms exports after Israeli assault on Gaza
Components from UK ‘almost certainly’ used in Operation Cast Lead Richard Norton-Taylor The Guardian, Tuesday 30 March 2010 A cross-party group of MPs will call today for a review of the way arms sales are approved after the government admitted British equipment was “almost certainly” used in the assault on Gaza last year. “It is […]
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Jerusalem Quartet London concert halted!
Press release from Brighton and Hove Palestine Solidarity Campaign Monday March 29th FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Protesters disrupted a lunchtime performance by the Jerusalem Quartet in London today. The concert at the Wigmore Hall was being broadcast live by the BBC. They were protesting that the Quartet, who are cultural ambassadors for the State of Israel, […]
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Pickets against Ahava build momentum
Report by ISM London activist Bob ISM London joined Palestine solidarity activists descending on central London today for the second of an ongoing series of demonstrations against the Ahava cosmetics store. The Israeli company specialises in Dead Sea products made in the illegal West Bank settlement of Mitzpe Shalem. Arriving in Covent Garden at 12pm, […]
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Actions across the UK for BDS Day of Action
Saturday 27 March – Fortnightly London demonstration will take place outside Ahava in Covent Garden, 39 monmouth Street, London, WC2H 9DD this SATURDAY 27 MARCH from 12pm to 2pm. Ahava sells produce from illegal settlements in the West Bank. The demonstration has been called by people from different London Palestine solidarity groups.Please forward widely, bring […]
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War on Want supermarket sweep in London!
Join our Supermarket sweep on Tuesday 30 March! Join War on Want”s Supermarket Action on Tuesday 30 March! High street supermarkets are profiting from Israel”s occupation of Palestine by selling produce from Israeli settlements. Under international law, Israel”s settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem are illegal. By selling settlement produce, supermarkets are complicit […]
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UK Palestine Solidarity Campaign BDS newspaper appeal
Help PSC campaign for Justice in Palestine – help us put a UK national advert in the press to promote the Boycott Israeli Goods campaign As the situation in Jerusalem worsens, as the siege on Gaza continues and as colonial settlements in the West Bank consume more Palestinian land, the need to build a mass […]
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Just the beginning: Ahava London shut down on the weekend
In response to a call for action from the popular committee of Bi”lin village in Palestine, on Saturday the 13th of March, over 30 people from different Palestine solidarity groups (including ISM London) turned up for the first fortnightly demonstration outside Ahava in Covent Garden, central London. Ahava is an Israeli cosmetics company based in […]
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Full-Circle of The Waiting Game: Total Boycott Against Total Occupation
Antoine Raffoul “¢ Mar 8th, 2010 We are inspired now to put a halt to the arguments that call for a selective boycott of Israel, and to those voices which warn us Palestinians (and many internationalists, for that matter) who criticise Israel for fear of being labelled ‘anti-semites’ (although we are Semites). We challenge politicians […]
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Boycott Israeli Goods by Carlos Latuff
WHY BOYCOTT ISRAEL? The Palestinian people are experiencing their 42nd year of military occupation. The siege by the Israeli army and the economic blockade have devastated their daily lives so that ‘normal’ life is impossible. Israel operates an entrenched system of racial Apartheid against its own non-Jewish inhabitants and has been illegally occupying Palestinian land […]
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