Palestine Solidarity Campaign Statement

Posted: 31st July 2025

Yesterday, over 500 of us mobilised at record speed to get to Downing Street with our pots and pans, to make sure that Keir Starmer and the rest of the British Cabinet would hear the fury of the British public as they held their emergency meeting about Gaza. This followed a weekend of action organised by PSC branches, with tens of thousands of people around the country taking to town centres, banging pots and pans in outrage at the British government’s collusion with Israel’s genocidal campaign of starvation and the weaponisation of food and medical aid.

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In response to this massive public pressure, yesterday the British government announced that it may recognise a Palestinian state if, and only if, Israel’s starvation and atrocities are still ongoing in two months’ time. Starmer’s grotesque message to Palestinians is that state recognition may come, but only if and when many, many more of you are dead.  

PSC condemns the government statement, which fails to address the urgent pressure needed for Israel to end its genocide in Gaza. The British government should be taking immediate action to end its complicity, and to support the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people to self-determination and return, which cannot be substituted by a conditional recognition of a limited Palestinian state.