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Palestine solidarity group in court for landmark case

PALESTINIAN rights campaigners took on the government for the third time yesterday in a landmark case in the Supreme Court.

Campaigners are challenging a ban on the right of local-government pension schemes to divest from companies that prop up Israel’s human-rights abuses.

The Palestinian Solidarity Campaign (PSC) initially challenged the government-imposed ban in 2017 and was successful.

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