Media coverage of praise for our campaign by former South African MP and anti-Apartheid activist Andrew Feinstein

A talk by former South African MP Andrew Feinstein in St Albans last week generated further local and national media coverage of our campaign for Herts County Council to end its £95 million investments linked to grave human rights abuses.

Feinstein joined the anti-Apartheid movement in the 1980s, becoming a member of Nelson Mandela’s African National Congress, and later served under Mandela in parliament. He is now based in the UK as a campaigner on the arms trade and a leading voice in the movement for Palestinian rights. In the 2024 general election, he ran as an independent against Keir Starmer in his Holborn and St Pancras constituency and came second, securing nearly 20 per cent of the vote.

His talk last week was arranged by St Albans Friends of Palestine, one of our member organisations, with the title “South Africa and Israel: Apartheid Then and Now”.

The national outlet the Canary ran with the headline “Andrew Feinstein just slammed Hertfordshire Council’s £95m investments in Israel’s genocide“. It noted that at the event, Feinstein “praised the Herts Palestine Support Coalition, which gathered signatures from audience members for its petition calling for Hertfordshire County Council to end its £95m investments in companies linked to grave human rights violations against Palestinians.”

The event – and Feinstein’s praise for our campaign – was also covered by the St Albans Review and the Herts Advertiser.