Palestine Action is escalating its campaign against Israeli arms manufacturer Elbit Systems by besieging its factory in Leicester, UK. The mission is clear: Palestine Action is not leaving until Elbit does.
Two Lloyds Bank employees were penalized for their Palestine support. Now they’re suing the bank for discrimination.
Although unable to find evidence of antisemitism, a Church of England tribunal banned Rev. Dr. Stephen Sizer, a noted critic of Christian Zionism, from clergy activities for 12 years.
Eight members of the direct action organization Palestine Action are facing trial on October 10th for charges that could lead to 38 years in prison. Co-Founders Huda Ammori and Richard Barnard write that this latest wave of repression is a sign their activism is working: “Every instance of state repression we’ve faced to date has been for one simple reason: Palestine Action has disrupted the smooth functioning of a business built on bloodshed.”
After relentless direct action and a number of arrests, Palestine Action has made business in Britain’s capital inoperable for Israel’s largest weapons company, Elbit Systems.
On the 74th annual Nakba Day, Palestine Action targeted and shut down Elbit Systems’s flagship premises in Bristol, commemorating Nakba Day. If the fact of life for Palestinians under Israeli apartheid is that of ongoing dispossession and death, then our resistance too must be ongoing. We won’t stop till the Nakba does.
A letter from the Union of Jewish Students condemning newly elected National Union of Students president Shaima Dallali appears to include several falsified signatures, raising questions about the effort to unseat her.
Whitworth Art Gallery director Alistair Hudson has been asked to step down from his position after being targeted by a pro-Israel legal group, The Guardian reports. The campaign to remove him was sparked by a 2021 art exhibition that contained a statement expressing solidarity with Palestinians. The gallery is run by the University of Manchester. Art Forum reports that Hudson was “ousted.”
On the sidelines of COP26, Israel’s Prime Minister met with Bill Gates to discuss forming working group to study potential cooperation around combating climate change. Gates’ obsession with ‘innovation’, however, might have blinded him from addressing other issues that Israel is also ‘known for’ – namely, being the world’s leading human rights violator and the destruction of the Palestinian environment.
The “Battle of Cable Street” has become part of British lore as a stand against fascism, but its true history shows the country’s enduring legacy of white supremacy and colonialism.