Palestine Solidarity Campaign - Appeal

Yesterday we coordinated protests across the country in the latest nationwide day of action, centred on picketing Barclays Bank as part of the campaign for a boycott of the bank until it ends its investments in companies supplying weapons to Israel. Now we are building for the thirteenth national march for Palestine on Saturday 27 April. But we need your help to make this even bigger than our recent mobilisations.

For the first time since we began marching in October, we have managed to secure Hyde Park as a venue. We need to make this one of our largest demonstrations, so that the vast area of the park is filled and the image of hundreds of thousands of people of conscience is beamed across the world and seen by our brothers and sisters in Palestine.

Holding a rally in Hyde Park with hundreds of thousands attending means we need to ensure we have a stage and sound system which can carry the message to all present. This alone will cost us upwards of £40,000. Can you help make this happen?

The marches we have organised have been of unprecedented scale. There has not been a period in British history, maybe since the suffragette movement, when protests of this size have continued for such a length of time. People have marched because of their outrage at the images they have seen and voices they have heard detailing the horror inflicted upon Palestinians as Israel’s genocide has unfolded. They have marched because of their anger at the complicity of our political leaders who have continued to support Israel, even as it stands trial at the world’s highest court for the crime of genocide and uses starvation as a weapon of war.

These protests have shaped public opinion, with recent polls showing that now not only do 70% of the British public want an immediate ceasefire, but by a 3 to 1 margin they also support the demand for ending arms sales to Israel. The pressure on our political leaders is growing.

The movement we have built is growing stronger and louder. PSC now has over 100 local branches. This is the base from which we will carry the momentum from these extraordinary mobilisations into the sustained campaigns that will bring the change required to end all UK complicity with the oppression of the Palestinian people.

This movement does not stop. This movement never stops until all of their demands are met, until all of the walls of apartheid are dismantled, and until the Palestinian people are finally free.

Please donate to support our work.

Ben Jamal

Director, Palestine Solidarity Campaign