Lib Dem-led council finally caves in over Elbit leasehold
At the full council meeting on 23 April 2024, Lib Dem-led Somerset Council voted to explore ways to legally evict Elbit UK or otherwise to dispose of the property. The…
Israel arms High Court challenge faces protests
Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) held an emergency protest on Tuesday 23 April outside the Royal Courts of Justice. The protest is in support of GLAN and Al-Haq who were…
Bristol University faces more action over links to Israel arms trade
On Tuesday 23 April at around 12pm, students of Bristol University and members of Extinction Rebellion Youth Bristol (XRYB) staged a ‘die-in’. It was over the university’s links to the…
Palestine Action – four people arrested in Leicester
Cops have arrested four more people out supporting Palestine Action, trying to stop the UK supply of arms to Israel which is continuing its genocide in Gaza. Palestine Action: stopping…
Holocaust survivors speak out against CAA chief
Speaking to BBC News, Campaign Against Antisemitism (CAA) chief Gideon Falter branded people protesting Israel’s ongoing genocide in Palestine “lawless mobs”. And in a statement, Gideon Falter appeared to suggest…
Greece rocked by anti-NATO and EU protests
On Sunday 21 April massive anti-imperialist events took place all over Greece. They were protesting against Greece’s involvement in US-NATO-EU militarism and the ongoing bloodshed of the Palestinian people. Greece:…
the pariah state provocateur enacting TikTok colonialism
Why are Western diplomats scornful and apoplectic with rage towards Iran while failing to denounce Israel’s deadly strike on the Iranian consulate in Syria? I don’t think it’s a particularly…
Israel ‘purposefully broken’ vital medical equipment in Gaza
The UN decried on Friday 19 April Israel’s intentional destruction of complex and hard-to-obtain medical equipment in Gaza’s beleaguered hospitals and maternity wards, further deepening risks to women already giving…
Elbit Systems targeted by activists in ‘subvertising’ campaign
UK-based arms manufacturer Elbit Systems has been repeatedly targeted by pro-Palestine activists for years. It’s over its supplying of weapons to Israel – which end up killing Palestinian people. However,…
petition delivered to UK PM calling for arms sales ban
A petition calling on the UK government to halt arms exports to Israel has been handed in at 10 Downing Street by Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) and a cross party…
New York Times tells its journalists not to use the word ‘Palestine’
The New York Times is helping erase Palestine through instructing reporters not to use the word Palestine “except in very rare cases” when reporting on Israel’s assault on Gaza, which…
Lib Dem Somerset Council meeting disrupted over Elbit Systems
On 15 April, several residents and supporters of Palestine Action disrupted Lib-Dem led Somerset Council’s ‘Property and Investments Sub-Committee meeting’ for over 30 minutes, before the councillors closed the meeting…