Report from London demo from Palestine Solidarity Campaign

Yesterday, once again we led over a hundred thousand people through the streets of London on the 11th national march calling for a ceasefire to end the genocide Israel has unleashed on Gaza. We know the pressure we have built through these marches, and the protests taking place in towns and cities across the UK, is having a growing impact in Westminster.

This week, the UK voted for a UN resolution calling for a ceasefire and the lifting of all barriers to the delivery of aid. This is welcome but is nowhere near enough. The UK government remains complicit by continuing to sell arms to Israel and by withholding vital funding from UNRWA. So we need your help to continue to ramp up the pressure.

I want to thank the thousands of supporters who have already shown their commitment to the Palestinian cause by becoming members of Palestine Solidarity Campaign. Since October our membership has grown by over 40%. So Peter, I have a question for you?

Will you become PSC’s newest member?

As a democratic, member-led organisation, our members are fundamental to everything we do. Members set our strategy, elect our leadership, fund our activities and through their numbers, add huge political weight to our demands.

This current genocide is built on the foundations of 76 years of oppression, 76 years of colonisation, ethnic cleansing, apartheid, and occupation. These issues will not go away if a ceasefire is agreed. So will you commit to carry on speaking out in the support of the Palestinian people and ensure their just demands cannot be forgotten?

Our role in supporting this struggle remains as it was before Israel unleashed its current genocide: To build a mass movement that can work across all sectors of society to end the complicity of our government, public bodies and corporations in supporting Israel’s system of oppression. To do that we need to build our movement even further.

Last month, our members agreed our plans for the rest of this year at PSC’s AGM. As well as the overriding priority of building pressure to end the genocide, including the ending of all arms sales to Israel, we need to do much to build our movement across all areas of society. Last week we supported the teachers’ trade union NEU in hosting a conference for their members on solidarity with Palestine. In recent weeks we have been working with students to hold actions across UK campuses as part of the Israeli apartheid month of action. And week in, week out, PSC branches take these campaigns to over 100 communities across Britain, including holding regular pickets outside of Barclays Bank – a key target due to its complicity with Israeli human rights abuses. PSC members are at the heart of all of these activities, but we need more members and more donations to take our campaigning to the next level.

This email is being sent to almost 300,000 supporters. If just 1 in 10 of those reading it took the decision to become a member of PSC today, then our collective voice will become far louder.

Joining takes just two minutes and will make a real difference to what PSC can achieve.

Thank you in advance,

Ben Jamal
Director, Palestine Solidarity Campaign