Instead of Helping Implement the Proscription of Palestine Action You Should Be Doing Your Best to Frustrate It - As Martin Luther King said:
Monday 30 June, 2025
Dear Ben Jamal,
I write as one of the original founders of Palestine Solidarity Campaign although I resigned in 2022 as a result of PSC’s abandonment of anti-Zionism in the new Constitution which you supported.
I have subsequently observed in wry amusement that you now claim to have been anti-Zionist all along. However as long as you don’t call for the replacement of a Jewish Supremacist state by a Unitary Democratic State it is impossible to consider PSC anti-Zionist.
We are living through the world’s first live streamed genocide in Gaza and the fulfilment of Zionism’s Messianic End Times. US and British imperialism are wedded to supporting Hitler’s Bastard Offspring. Today when genocidal and exterminationist ideas are commonplace in Israel and when nearly half of Israeli Jews support exterminating the Palestinians of Gaza, the last thing we should do is retreat in the face of government threats of proscription. Today the Nazi doctrine of Death by Hunger is the official policy of the Israeli government.
Ben Jamal
Despite the creation of a mass Palestine solidarity movement, both in Britain and internationally, we have not been able to stop the Genocide. At best we have been able to limit the carnage and force Zionism’s mafia bosses in Tel Aviv to admit a bare minimum of aid.
PSC, together with Stop the War Coalition and other groups, have organised impressive demonstrations in London but by themselves they have failed to change British government policy, wedded as it is to NATO and the alliance with the United States. Today we are led by war criminals and we must act accordingly.
A chance was missed in January when the Police banned the march from starting from outside the BBC. The Metropolitan Police adopted wholesale the Zionist smear that the marches offended Jews worshipping in a distant synagogue,. Instead of saying that you would call the march at the BBC regardless of the Police’s attempt at sabotage you meekly complied by rearranging the starting point in Whitehall, which enabled the Police to kettle, harass, arrest and attack protestors. Ctd....The last working-class hero in England. Clio the cat, ? July 1997 - 1 May 2016 Kira the cat, ? ? 2010 - 3 August 2018 Jasper the Ruffian cat ??? - 4 November 2021 Georgina the cat ???-4 December 2025
...but bang to rights. This has got to sting, for anyone involved with PSC who actually reads it: 'Now is the ideal time to put a spoke into the Zionist wheel. Now is the time to defy yet another anti-Palestinian law with both right and public opinion on our side. Yet what do you do? You instruct members and branches of PSC to fully implement the ban on supporting Palestine Action if the law comes into effect. Let’s be blunt. You are doing the work of the Zionists for them. You don’t know what to do with a mass movement except march them up the hill and down again.
You have no perspective beyond the accumulation of funds and the employment of more staff. PSC has made over a million pounds from Israel’s genocide in Gaza yet politically you are still as timid as when, in 2022, you took anti-Zionism out of the constitution. [...] Your fear of challenging the unjust laws that Yvette Cooper is proposing stems from your fear of upsetting the applecart. To be blunt you are afraid of challenging the undemocratic British state and prefer to sacrifice the Palestinians instead.'
They have been NGOised, as Arundhati Roy memorably described it:
on July 2, 2025, 1:22 pm