March 30th will be the 1st anniversary of the start of the Gaza Return March.  March 30th is also Palestinian Land Day. Palestinians have issued a call for  international action on the day. Join the protest on Saturday  30th March at 12 noon. We will be demanding an end to the siege of Gaza and…

The 14th Tom Hurndall Memorial Lecture will take place on Monday. It will be given by Salma Karmi-Ayyoub on Monday 25 March 2019, 6.30-8.00pm at Manchester Metropolitan University in Brooks Building Lecture Theatre 1.   The title of her lecture is ‘Israel’s Nation State Law and consequences for Palestine’. Tom Hurndall was a student at Manchester…

Musheir El-Farra (Chair of Sheffield PSC) has just returned from the Gaza Strip.  He will  give an illustrated talk about his visit focusing on the ways in which popular resistance to Israeli’s siege is developing  despite the severe hardship people are experiencing. Since the peaceful protests began along the Israeli-Gaza border on March 30, 2018, Israeli forces…

Coinciding with the month of Valentine’s, Cinema Palestino and Creative Interruptions are showing three Palestinian films that explore experiences of romantic love, love of family and love of home when living under occupation and dispossession.

Photo above: Eurovision Protest 1 Dec 2018 The staging Eurovision 2019 in Israel in May is being used to art-washes Israel’s violations of Palestinian Human rights.

Below is  the press release from PSC regarding HSBC’s divestment from Elbit Systems. Manchester PSC next public meeting is with Huda Ammori, Palestinian activist and PSC campaigns officer.  Before moving to PSC national office,she was a BDS campaigner at Manchester University.