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October 10, 2018
Hodge & McIntosh: false allegations of anti-semitism
in Tories and New Labour
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"Pro-war, pro-Israel Margaret Hodge accuses supporters of Palestine in the Labour Party of bringing that party into disrepute. Her own disgraceful cover up of child abuse as leader of Islington Council, her abuse of the victims for which she was finally…
September 16, 2018
Save Khan Al-Ahmar
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Palestinians are Sounding the Alarm about Bulldozing the Entire Village of Khan Al-Ahmar, Occupied East Jerusalem The Bedouin community of Khan Al-Ahmar awaits the imminent demolition of their houses after the Israeli Supreme Court rejected their appeals By…
September 05, 2018
The IHRA definition and the racist State of Israel
in Free Speech on Palestine
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Regardless of who endorses the IHRA definition of antisemitism, Israel is a racist state. Massacre and ethnic cleansing of the native Palestinian people birthed the State of Israel and those running the state have found it difficult to break the habit. Israel…
Aug 19, 2018
Israeli Army self-exonerates; Amnesty says war crimes and crimes against humanity
in State terror
In a report on Wednesday (15th August 2018), the Israeli army cleared itself of all wrongdoing and said it would not prosecute commanders who massacred 135 Palestinians and shattered large parts of Rafah in an attack on August 1, 2014, in a response to…
Aug 17, 2018
The Herald: "Football chiefs reject petition backed by thousands calling for Scotland to boycott matches against Israel"
in Football
The Herald 17 August 2018 SCOTTISH football's governing body has rejected calls for the national team to boycott forthcoming matches against Israel. Nearly 3000 have backed a campaign to have Scotland withdraw from fixtures against Israel away on October 11…
Aug 16, 2018
Why don't Corbyn’s critics attack him for EDM 1677?
in Stop the JNF
A huge variety of approaches have been taken by the Labour right, Tories, and the pro-Israel groups to smear Corbyn as hostile to Jews. They have scoured social media posts for many years and attendances at small meetings in countless community centres for…
Aug 13, 2018
Edinburgh 2018 Fringe free of Orwellian Israeli Peace Festival
in Campaigning
“Those who profess to favour freedom and yet deprecate agitation…want crops without ploughing up the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters.This struggle may be a moral one, or it may…
Aug 01, 2018
Corbyn should not apologise for views of Holocaust survivor and Gaza professor
in Zionism
1st August 2018 In 2010 SPSC and IJAN (International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network) co-hosted a ten-venue speaking tour in the UK and Ireland on the theme of Never Again for Anyone. Main speakers were Auschwitz survivor Dr Hajo Meyer and Dr Haider Eid,…
Jul 27, 2018
Scottish Pension Fund Divests from Israeli Bank Hapoalim
in Divestment
SPSC not only welcomes the decision by Falkirk Pension Fund to divest from Israeli Bank Hapoalim, but also the rationale for reaching that decision. The Scottish pension fund, which manages £2.3 billion in the pension funds for Falkirk, Stirling and…
Jun 08, 2018
Interview with Argentine BDS campaigner on football victory
in Football
Tonight (Fri June 8) at 7.30pm UK timeon https://www.facebook.com/scottishpscArgentine BDS activist David Comedi will discuss the decision by the Argentine national football team to cancel their game in occupied Jerusalem tomorrow.1. What were the main…
Jun 07, 2018
Gaza motion to SNP Conference a huge disappointment
in Statements
The following is a motion being raised at the SNP Conference taking place in Aberdeen this weekend. Given Israel’s illegal occupation, settlement building, imprisonment, home demolitions, their ongoing policies of apartheid, and the killing and maiming of…
Jun 03, 2018
Killing is an Israeli way of life
in State terror
The Israeli murder machine has been going about its grisly work for a very long time. Army snipers have coolly and professionally killed over 120 unarmed Palestinian demonstrators in the last few weeks, shot and maimed many hundreds more. Millions around the…
May 31, 2018
Press Release: Palestine campaigners welcome hate crime recommendation
in Press releases
Send a letter to First Minister Nicola Sturgeon and Communities Minister Angela Constance to ask that the Scottish Government repudiate the IHRA definition as publicly as they adopted it. http://coordin8.org.uk/app/index.php/com/inlineLink/122 Press release…