Today is Land Day, held to honour Palestinian land defenders resisting Israel’s colonisation and apartheid.
As Palestinians face down Israel’s genocide and ethnic cleansing, we must reaffirm our solidarity with their struggle for freedom and return. (1/10)
In 1976, Palestinians inside Israel faced a renewed threat of state seizures of their land. They called a general strike and protests against these land grabs. Israeli forces cracked down, killing 6 people, injuring and arresting hundreds. (2/10)
Since then, Land Day has become a date for Palestinians, both in exile and in their homeland, to mark and remember those killed defending their land, and to reaffirm their struggle against Israel’s ongoing colonisation. (3/10)
The Palestinian struggle is unified around rootedness in the land: from land defenders in Masafer Yatta, to farmers in the Naqab. From those who use the day to visit the location of their villages destroyed in the Nakba, to those in exile who demand return to their homeland. (4/10)
Today, Palestinians are resisting Israel’s relentless onslaught across their homeland.
Israel’s genocide in Gaza has killed many tens, if not hundreds of thousands of Palestinians. Most of Gaza’s residents are already refugees, displaced from their land by Israel’s previous campaigns of ethnic cleansing. (5/10)
In the West Bank, Israeli forces continue with military invasions, assassinations and land grabs.
Since October 2023, Israel has killed over 900 Palestinians in the West Bank, and escalated home demolitions and forcible dispossession. (6/10)
Meanwhile, Palestinian citizens of Israel confront harassment, violence, and intimidation to repress their solidarity with their siblings elsewhere in Palestine.
In the Naqab, they are facing home demolitions and ethnic cleansing.
We must also escalate our boycott campaigns targeting the corporations that help sustain Israel’s colonial settlement enterprise.
PSC has launched the Don’t Buy Apartheid campaign – calling on all individuals and businesses to boycott Israeli produce and Coca-Cola. (9/10)
The first Don’t Buy Apartheid day of action is on Saturday 5 April. Join an action in your local area, and call for Israeli produce and Coca-Cola to be removed from the shelves.
🚨NEW CAMPAIGN: Today, we’re launching our Don’t Buy Apartheid campaign, calling on all individuals, shops, cafés and venues to pledge to take two key actions to support Palestinians: boycott Israeli produce and boycott Coca-Cola.
Watch below to learn more (1/8)
Join the campaign launch webinar on Wednesday 19 March to find out more about how to get involved in the Don’t Buy Apartheid campaign.
Save the link to join: (2/8)
Both Israeli fresh produce and Coca-Cola help enable Israel’s settler-colonialism, military occupation and apartheid against Palestinians.
🚨Israel is blocking the entry of ALL humanitarian aid to the besieged Gaza Strip, while killing Palestinians by drone strikes. This is a continuation of genocide. 🧵(1/5)
The effect of this blockade will be devastating. After 17 months of genocide, there are severe shortages of essential supplies.
With temperatures dropping, it's been reported that seven newborn babies have died of hypothermia in the past week. (2/5)
This week 800+ media figures and over 16k members of the public have condemned the @BBC for removing “Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone” which documented Palestinian children in Gaza who have been enduring and surviving Israel’s genocide (1/8)
Last night the @BBC shamefully reaffirmed its decision to censor the experiences of these Palestinian children, providing legitimacy to those attempting to smear them, and casting doubt on Palestinians and pro-Palestinian voices (2/8)
This latest instance of censorship is part of a long pattern of the BBC’s systematic failure to adequately platform Palestinian voices and suppression of the contemporary and historical realities of Palestinian life and Israel’s decades long violations of Palestinian rights (3/8)
🚨HUGE VICTORY! Yesterday the High Court rejected @Cambridge_Uni application for an unprecedented 5 year ban on protests in solidarity with Palestine from key sites of the university, following an intervention from @elsclegal 🧵(1/5)
PSC was proud to support students and staff, alongside @elsclegal, @libertyhq, @ucu and @yourcambridgesu to oppose this unprecedented attack on the right to protest, which sought to single out in particular those protesting in solidarity with Palestine, subjecting them to restrictions not applied to protestors on any other issue (2/5)
This attempt to curtail freedom of expression on campus was condemned by the UN Special Rapporteur @Ginitastar, who called on the university to “stop harassing and stigmatising the university-based pro-Palestine solidarity movement" (3/5)
Tomorrow @Cambridge_Uni will go to the High Court seeking to impose an unprecedented ban on protests in solidarity with Palestine from key sites of the university. This is a major assault on longstanding principles of freedom of expression and assembly on campus. (1/8)
The injunction sought by @Cambridge_Uni singles out those protesting in solidarity with the Palestinian people and would subject them to restrictions not applied to protestors on any other issue. If granted, it will remain in place until 2030 – long after current students have graduated. (2/8)
Together with @UCU, @Liberty and others, we are working with staff and students to oppose these draconian and discriminatory measures which would set a new and worrying precedent for freedom of expression and the right to protest. (3/8)
🚨North Somerset Council has voted to support divestment from companies enabling Israel’s military occupation and apartheid! (1/6)
The motion calls on Avon Pension Fund to divest from companies “that facilitate Israel’s breaches of international law” including arms companies supplying Israel, and companies active in Israel’s illegal settlements. (2/6)
This comes after months of campaigning by local groups, including Weston-Super-Mare Friends of Palestine and Clevedon PSC, working with scheme members. (3/6)