Cambridge Palestine Solidarity Campaign
Palestine * Palestinians * return of refugees * freedom from occupation, apartheid, racism
Write to your local councillors and ask them to stand with the Palestinian people….
Demand your councillors support motions calling for an immediate and permanent ceasefire to end Israel’s assault. As well as advocate for the immediate divestment of any funds administered by the Council, including Local Government Pension Scheme funds, from companies complicit in Israel’s attacks, such as arms companies supplying Israel with weapons and military technology.
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Palestine Solidarity Campaign UK
National March for Palestine
12 noon, Saturday 3 August
Park Lane, London marching to Whitehall
Israel has escalated its genocidal assault on Palestinians in Gaza. Meanwhile our new government has done nothing to end UK complicity in Israels violence. Join us on 3 August to demand Keir Starmer stop arming Israel, restore funding for UNRWA and pressure Israel to end its genocidal assault on Palestine.
Please share this march with others.
Where next for the solidarity movement?
Palestinians continue to face the darkest hour in their enduring struggle for liberation. Israel’s genocidal assault has killed many tens of thousands and displaced 90% of Gaza’s population. Across their homeland and in exile, Palestinians are subjected to a system of oppression that is recognised internationally as meeting the legal definition of the crime of apartheid. Over nine remarkable months, millions in Britain have so far taken to the streets in an unprecedented series of demonstrations demanding an end to British state, corporate and institutional complicity in Israel’s crimes.Now, this historic movement will come together to discuss the urgent need to escalate our struggle for Palestinian freedom.
On 10 August, a major conference in London will chart the way forward. We must mobilise popular pressure, across every sector of society, to break the ties of complicity linking British institutions and corporations to Israel’s machine of murder and oppression.The inspiring student encampments have already brought a renewed focus on academic boycott and divestment – the withdrawal of investments from companies that are implicated in sustaining Israeli apartheid.Trade union activists, artists, and members of the public are now demanding that local councils, universities, cultural institutions, and financial institutions like Barclays, cut their ties to apartheid and divest their funds from companies that are arming and enabling Israel’s genocide.
Don’t miss this landmark conference. Join movement leaders and campaigners as we plan the next steps for the solidarity movement.
Speakers include:
Omar Barghouti, co-founder of the BDS movement
Ghassan Abu-Sittah, British-Palestinian surgeon
Ben Jamal, Director of Palestine Solidarity Campaign
Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967
Location: Central Hall Westminster, Storey’s Gate, SW1H 9NH.
Time and Date: Saturday 10 August, 10.15am till 4.30pm
Register here:
https://palestinecampaign.org/events/divest-for-palestine-conference
From the national PSC:
Parliament is about to break up for summer recess, but Palestine cannot wait until September for change. Over the last week we’ve seen multiple massacres targeting schools, mosques, and designated humanitarian ‘safe zones’ in the Gaza Strip. Every day Palestinians are being killed, and the new British government remains complicit.
That’s why we need you to join us for an emergency lobby on Wednesday 24th July – demanding new MPs take immediate action to end Israel’s genocide in the Gaza Strip…
Shamefully, Foreign Secretary David Lammy was actually visiting Israel this week and shaking hands with Netanyahu while bombs were falling on Gaza. Even worse, Britain is continuing to sell weapons to Israel, and has still suspended its funding to UNRWA. This is why we need you to join us lobbying parliament on Wednesday 24th July, demanding change before MPs start the summer recess.
Register to join the lobby here:
Note the regular Friday vigil at the Addenbrookes roundabout will this time be at King’s Parade.
Wednesday 17th July
ALL-TOWN ASSEMBLY
6 pm Student Encampment
King’s Parade
Building on last week’s student-town groups meeting
Healthworkers 4 Palestine
VIGIL 4 PALESTINE
6 pm – 7 pm
King’s Parade
in support of the student encampment
Friday 19th July
CAMBOURNE VIGIL for PALESTINE
4 pm – 5 pm (also Saturday 20th July 11-12noon)
Cambourne Square (near Morrisons)
All Welcome
