Posted: 28th September 2025
We are getting ready to march in unprecedented numbers. We need you there.
All to London on 11 October for our next national march for Palestine.
For two years we have collectively built a community of resistance to Israel’s genocide. Our demands have been driven by the understanding of certain fundamental truths: that Israel’s genocide against the Palestinian people is built on 77 years of colonisation, occupation and apartheid, a system of oppression maintained by the complicit support of western governments, public bodies companies and corporations. As a protest movement we have demanded an end to all complicity and that Israel be treated as the pariah state it is.
Yesterday we took these demands to the gates of the Labour party conference. But now we are beginning in earnest to mobilise for what we intend to be the largest political demonstration in British history.
Help us mobilise for a huge national march on 11 October!
The pressure we have built is having impact. Across the UK, 20 councils have now committed to divest funds from companies complicit in Israel’s genocide and apartheid. Under pressure from our Don’t Buy Apartheid campaign, the Co-op has resolved to remove all Israeli products from its shelves. There has been a 17% decline in imports of Israeli goods in 2025, a fact attributed to the boycott campaigns carried out by PSC branches.
Globally, Israel is more isolated than ever. The European Union is finally taking steps to suspending its trade agreement with Israel. This week the European Broadcasting Union confirmed it will hold a vote in the coming months on expelling Israel from Eurovision, and pressure is building for Israel to be expelled from UEFA, the governing body of football in Europe. 5000 Hollywood artists and filmmakers have pledged not to work with complicit Israeli institutions. Recently I had the honour of standing on stage to make the BDS call at a concert at Wembley Arena in London with performances by tens of A-listers from the film and music world. But we need to keep the pressure up, because the government is still not meeting our demands.
Last week the government sought to relieve the pressure we have built by formally recognising a Palestinian state. But as PSC said in our statement response, such gestures are meaningless if they are not accompanied by concrete measures to end all support for the genocide and for Israel’s decades long system of apartheid.
On 11 October we need to march in unprecedented numbers.
We are still facing attempts to suppress our movement, including the charges I’m facing along with other movement leaders. Still the police have been imposing draconian conditions on our marches, limiting our routes and recently banning the use of megaphones. We continue to challenge all of these restrictions but the best way we do so is to refuse to be silenced. Our best response to this suppression is to march in our biggest numbers yet.
Two years since October 2023, we remain inspired by the sumud and resistance of the Palestinian people who refuse to succumb to Israel’s plans for their erasure. Once more they are calling on us to show solidarity by coming out onto the streets.
In solidarity,
Ben Jamal
PSC Director