PALESTINE solidarity campaigners declared victory today after the Supreme Court said the government’s bid to ban co-operation with the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement was illegal.

THE government was defeated yesterday over its ban on local councils being able to divest their pension funds from companies complicit in Israel’s occupation of Palestine. 

Palestinian rights campaigners hailed the Supreme Court ruling as a “historic victory” and “win for democracy, freedom of expression and justice.”