PSC invites you to watch their video and write to the PM

Posted: 19th May 2025

Today as we reach the end of our week of actions to commemorate the Nakba we need you to do 2 things.

1)     To join us on the streets of London as we prepare to march in our hundreds of thousands

2)     Watch our video and write to Keir Starmer to demand that he end his ongoing support for Israel even as it uses starvation as a weapon of war.

https://x.com/PSCupdates/status/1923347617326498023

This week we joined Palestinians across the globe in marking the Nakba, not just as a moment of collective trauma rooted in the past, but as an unbroken ongoing catastrophe. Today, as we march again in our hundreds of thousands in the streets of London, we do so at a moment where the roots of that catastrophe, the Zionist project for the erasure of the Palestinian people, is now manifesting itself with unashamed brutality into open genocide.

Every year when we mark the Nakba we reflect on the depth and breadth of British complicity stretching back beyond the Nakba of 1948 to the Balfour declaration of 1917 that laid the foundations for Palestinian dispossession. But it is with a new sense of horror that we witness that complicity sustained in the face of genocide. For 3 months now Israel has imposed a total blockade. No food, no water, no medicines are allowed in. As one UN official put it – the only thing entering Gaza right now is bombs. Images of starving children flood our screens. Where is the red line if it is not using starvation as a weapon of war?

So today we ask that you write in your tens of thousands to Keir Starmer to remind him that history will judge him for his support for these crimes and demand that he acts now.

We send this message today and we bring it in our hundreds of thousands to the streets of the capital. We do so knowing that the fabric of hypocrisy that has allowed the normalisation of Israel’s crimes for decades is now – in the face of these latest acts of barbarity – tearing at the seams. Yesterday even Lord Ricketts former head of the Joint intelligence committee called for a full arms embargo on Israel.

I know you are weary – we are all weary. But we also know that we do not have the luxury of genocide fatigue because the Palestinians do not have that choice. We must be and will be inspired by their endurance even in the face of genocide. Join us as we march for Palestine again in London.

Our struggle for a better world continues to be one that is founded on the hope that is the wellspring of all solidarity – a hope that has been the cornerstone of 77 years of Palestinian resistance and endurance. A hope that every Palestinian generation passes on to the next generation, like the keys to their homes.

Today as we press our demands again we also renew our commitment, not to stop protesting campaigning and boycotting until the day of liberation arrives. We will not stop until Israel’s system of apartheid is ground into the dust of history, until all of the Palestinian people scattered across the globe, like every member of my family, are free to return and on every inch of their historic homeland are living in freedom.

Onwards together.

Solidarity,
Ben Jamal,
Director, PSC

This week marks 77 years of ongoing Nakba, when we commemorate the ethnic cleansing of over 750,000 Palestinians who were driven from their homes by Israel in 1948. This week, take action daily in solidarity with the Palestinian struggle for freedom and justice and join us at Embankment, London on 17 May when we march for Palestine.