Israeli forces entered Masafer Yatta accompanied by bulldozers on 1 June 2022. 8 villages in the region are at immediate risk of mass destruction and displacement. This is settler-colonial elimination taking place before our eyes. Israeli forces raided al Fakhit, one of the villages in Masafer Yatta at risk of immediate forces displacement, destroying 5… Read more »
NSPCC / JCB Campaign
Why Address the NSPCC?
We are asking the NPSCC to live up to its values by dropping JCB as a donor, taking a moral lead which can persuade JCB that servicing Israel’s home demolition policy is wrong. What are the NSPCC’s Values? All of the following are quotations, taken directly from the NSPCC website page “Living our Values” where… Read more »
Major Charity Accepts Dirty Money
A MAJOR children’s charity has accepted millions of pounds from a company under the spotlight for the destruction of Palestinian homes. The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children has received £5 million from JCB which has been reported to the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development. It emerged yesterday that a UK… Read more »
JCB Bulldozers Make Life a Misery
Bulldozers manufactured by British company JCB are making life a misery for Palestinian families. A tiny campaign to stop these crimes has become enormous – thanks first to ICAHD UK members and now to social workers and mental health professionals. Protecting Palestinian Families began by approaching JCB in March last year (2019). Co-owner Lady Carole… Read more »
Appalled Campaigners Picket JCB
Protecting Palestinian Families and ICAHD UK Supporters of Palestinian human rights have held a vigil outside a JCB facility in Farnham, Surrey. They are demanding that major children’s charity NSPCC stop accepting donations from the giant company. Organiser Mayonne Coldicott said she had travelled to Palestine with the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions. “It’s… Read more »
Protest Against JCB allowing its bulldozers and pneumatic drills to be used for home demolitions in Palestine/Israel
Legal Background UN Lists JCB for Violations in the Occupied Territory On Wednesday 12 February 2020, the UN Human Rights Office issued a long-awaited report identifying 112 companies involved in business activities in settlements in the Occupied Palestine Territory which violate Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. Among the companies identified is JCB, whose… Read more »
Postcard Campaign to NSPCC
This campaign has now finished but 3,000 postcards were sent to the NSPCC ICAHD UK is supporting a campaign initiative taken by Protecting Palestinian Families, an offshoot of Stop the Demolitions, to stop the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) from taking money from JCB, the British company that… Read more »
JCB: Visual Evidence
JCB equipment has been used to demolish Palestinian family homes: in the Palestinian villages of Dkeika, Bir alEid, Lasefer and Umm Fagarah in the South Hebron Hills, in the East Jerusalem neighbourhoods of Silwan and al-Suwaneh in the Jordan Valley. The wheel loaders models used for these demolitions are 456e ZX and 3CX. A JCB… Read more »
Sample Letters to key people within the NSPCC concerning donations from the Chair of JCB
By email – Key contacts are Chair of Trustees – neil.berkett@nspcc.org.uk Chief Executive – peter.wanless@nspcc.org.uk Director of Fundraising and Engagement – josephine.swinhoe@nspcc.org.uk By post – Addressed to one or more of the above, ℅ NSPCC Head Office, Weston House, 42 Curtain Road, London EC2A 3NH You can also email help@NSPCC.org.uk with the person to whom it is… Read more »
Call for NSPCC to stop accepting donations from JCB
ICAHD UK is supporting a campaign initiative taken by Protecting Palestinian Families, an offshoot of Corporate Occupation/Stop the Demolitions. We request the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) stop taking money from JCB, the British company that manufactures industrial and agricultural machinery. The NSPCC, a major charity that campaigns and works… Read more »