Palestine Solidarity Campaign

It was founded in the UK in 1982[1][2] and incorporated in 2004 as Palestine Solidarity Campaign Ltd.[3] In 2023, The Guardian described it as "Europe’s largest Palestinian rights organisation".

[7][8][9] In 2017, Jewish News reported that Lanning (then chair of PSC) was barred from entering Israel; the Israeli embassy in the UK said this was in part due to his connections with Hamas, which the EU had declared a terrorist organisation.

A PSC press release corrected the report, saying that it was criticising Habima "for performing in illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank."

"[13] The PSC waged a two-year campaign to block an EU trade agreement, the ACAA, that recognised Israeli pharmaceutical standards as equal to those in Europe.

[17] Also in 2019 the PSC signed a letter alongside over 200 other groups calling on the International Criminal Court to begin investigating war crimes committed by Israeli in the Palestinian territories.

[25] In late October, PSC Director Ben Jamal said Keir Starmer's statement that Israel had the right to cut off water and electricity to Gaza was "grotesque".

[4][2] The 11 November London demonstration was controversial as it coincided with Armistice Day; after complaints from Conservative politicians that this was "provocative and disrespectful", far right counterprotesters announced they would defend the Cenotaph from marchers, although the march was not planned to go near it.