Boycott Barclays. Of all the UK’s high street banks, Barclays has possibly the most ignoble history. Until 1986 (when international pressure finally forced its withdrawal), Barclays played a key role propping up the apartheid regime in South Africa. Barclays now bankrolls many arms companies complicit in Israel’s apartheid and genocide in Palestine. BHPSC have campaigned …
EcoStream (SodaStream). Probably BHPSC’s longest, and most hard-fought campaign was this one, against EcoStream (a Brighton store by worldwide carbonated drinks manufacturer SodaStream), which ran every weekend for two years between 2013 and 2014. The background SodaStream’s manufacturing plant is located in the Israeli settlement of Ma’ale Adumim. All settlements in the occupied West Bank …
Sainsbury’s: Taste the Indifference. Another campaign that our members and supporters were heavily involved with was this one, targeting one of the UK’s largest supermarkets, which ran between 2013 and 2015. The background Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank are built on stolen Palestinian land – and illegal under international law. Sainsbury’s uses suppliers …
HP: Harms Palestinians. Between 2014 and 2017, we regularly took part in national PSC’s ‘HP: Harms Palestinians’ campaign against HP Enterprise. The company profits by selling its technologies of apartheid to Israel, to be used in the illegal occupation and oppression of the Palestinian people. HP is still a worldwide priority boycott target. The background …
FURTHER UPDATE (9th May) The Duke of York’s have now cancelled their Eurovision party, making it the fourth and final ticketed event to cancel. This cancellation is arguably the most significant, since the Duke’s has been a prominent Eurovision supporter for many years. Of course, if the Eurovision organisers (the European Broadcast Union) had shown …
Over the past few months, a number of pro-Palestine demonstrators and activists have been arrested for alleged public support for a proscribed terrorist organisation. Some have been charged with offences under the Terrorism Act 2000. Amongst the people arrested are Tony Greenstein in Brighton and Mick Napier in Glasgow. Although the comments made by these …