Palestine has become electoral issue in UK for first time, says solidarity campaign chief

Aimee Shalan, the incoming head of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, says the UK government should impose comprehensive sanctions on Israel. Photograph: Antonio Olmos/The Guardian

Palestine has become a domestic electoral issue in Britain for the first time, according to the incoming head of the country’s largest Palestinian solidarity organisation.

Aimee Shalan, who will take over as director of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) in November, joins the organisation as demonstrations against Israel’s war in Gaza have snowballed into what organisers describe as one of the most sustained protest movements in modern British history.