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Aug 5 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Israel is bombing Gaza again. Gaza has been held under illegal siege for fifteen years - creating inhuman conditions for the inhabitants, more than half of whom are children. (1/4)
In what an Israeli official once grotesquely described as “mowing the lawn” it subjects Gaza to periodic systematic campaigns of bombardment - the last, most savage, took place in May 2021 when, over 11 days, Israel killed 260 Palestinians, more than 60 of them children. (2/4)
Today Israel began a renewed bombing campaign which so far has killed 8 Palestinians. Despite this barbaric record of violations of international law, the UK not only imposes no sanctions on Israel, but regularly approves military technology and arms exports to Israel (3/4)
Including for weapons of the type used in clear violation of international law, against the UK's own arms export criteria. We renew the call for an arms embargo on Israel now. (4/4) #StopArmingIsrael #GazaUnderAttack

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Aug 4
Hats off to @DaleVince and Forest Green Rovers for refusing to be intimidated by the bullying behaviour of UK Lawyers for Israel. UKLFI has complained to the Football Association about FGR speaking up for Palestinian rights. (1/10)
UKLFl claim that such displays of support for Palestinian rights are inherently “discriminatory". The argument is that because some Jewish people feel an affinity with Israel, to criticise the State for its rights abuses is to discriminate against Jewish people. (2/10)
This degrades anti-racist discourse, and threatens the ability of Palestinians, and their allies, to bring the facts of their dispossession into the public domain. (3/10)
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Apr 26
🚨Breaking: In advance of the Gov's plans to table an "anti-boycott bill," PSC along with 45 civil society groups has published a statement in defence of our collective right to boycott in campaigns for social and climate justice.

More➡️righttoboycott.org.uk #RightToBoycott
What exactly is the "anti-boycott" bill?

The UK Government wants to prevent public bodies from "making boycott, divestment or sanctions decisions that aren’t in line with their foreign and economic policies."

This is a direct threat to freedom of expression #RightToBoycott
If passed, it will impact a wide range of campaigns, from climate justice, to anti-militarism work, to our campaigns for Palestinian rights. It also hinders public bodies & democratic institutions from investing & trading ethically in line with international law & human rights.
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Mar 25
.@Lowkey0nline has become the latest target of pro-Israel groups seeking to use disingenuous accusations and slander to silence any voice advocating for Palestinian rights.
The attack follows a familiar McCarthyite playbook of trawling though social media accounts and finding quotes to take out of context. The foundation is always the same: To define criticism of Israel outside of a very narrow proscribed framework as inherently antisemitic.
Part of the charge sheet against Lowkey is his calling out of the racist laws & policies of the Israeli state. Those attacking him ascribe antisemitism to descriptions of Israel as an example of a settler-colonial state practicing apartheid and ethnically cleansing Palestinians.
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Feb 22
1/ MPs today debated a pensions bill with a dangerous amendment proposed by discredited ex-Minister Robert Jenrick MP. Unfortunately the amendment was carried, with potentially serious impact on struggles for human rights and climate justice. Our briefing: palestinecampaign.org/briefing-note-…
2/ Jenrick’s amendment may be weaponised against those raising concerns about pension investments in companies involved in human rights abuse and environmental abuse. It seeks to prevent local authorities from exercising their legal right to make ethical investment choices.
3/ For example: it could force them to remain invested in companies involved in illegal settlements in occupied Palestine or Western Sahara; firms implicated in the oppression of Uyghur communities in China; those selling arms used in military attacks on civilians in Yemen.
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Feb 15
1/ Right now, 500 Palestinian political prisoners are undertaking a "mass united resistance movement" against administrative detention through a boycott of Israel's military courts. Read about it in this letter penned from inside Israel's apartheid jails: addameer.org/index.php/news…
2/ Administrative detention is an Israeli policy by which Palestinians are imprisoned indefinitely, without charge or trial, on secret evidence. It's a form of arbitrary detention, one element of apartheid, as recently described by @amnesty. amnesty.org/en/latest/news…
3/ Israel’s use of administrative detention is increasing alongside broader repression of Palestinians, criminalised for calling out injustice, and for raising the call for freedom. NGOs like @Addameer are targeted over human rights work. #StandWithThe6 palcivilsociety.com
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Sep 2, 2021
PSC’s full statement on the Labour Party conference is here.

PSC was never banned - we had a stall and a fringe in place as in previous years.

palestinecampaign.org/psc-statement-…
But Young Labour were definitively told not to have PSC speak at a meeting because a senior figure feared support for BDS might fall foul of the IHRA definition. Yesterday after interventions by Young Labour and PSC, Young Labour were given a full apology...
And confirmation that of course PSC could be invited to speak at their meeting.

So the issue is resolved… But as our statement makes clear, this is yet further evidence of how the IHRA is being used to create a cloud of suspicion around legitimate activism for Palestine.
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