May 2008 – Page 5 – Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign

Brown: apartheid Israel is a ‘democratic pluralistic’ state

9 May 2008

British PM Gordon Brown "loves Israel" Jewish Telegraph May 9, 2008 GORDON Brown… pledged at a service on Wednesday night to mark the Jewish state’s 60th birthday that Britain would continue to be "a true […]

The loathsome smearing of Israel’s critics – Johan Hari

9 May 2008

In the US and Britain, there is a campaign to smear anybody who tries to describe the plight of the Palestinian people. The Independent, May 8, 2008 It is an attempt to intimidate and silence […]

How Israel kills 1,000 children, denies it, blames Palestinians, then says it was another ‘accident’

8 May 2008

Israel says it doesn’t mean to kill Palestinian children, yet they keep on dying B. Michael Published: 05.04.08 We really didn’t mean to do it. Again we didn’t mean to do it. We have never […]

Mike Marqusee spoke to meetings in Edinburgh and E. Renfrewshire on his new book – May 2008

6 May 2008

May 6th, 2008 Mike Marqusee spoke to lively SPSC meetings, one large, one modest, on his new book: “If I am not for Myself – Journey of an Anti-Zionist Jew”. The meeting in Edinburgh was […]

“The situation in Gaza is absolutely desperate.”

5 May 2008

The UN agency that provides food for Palestinian refugees says it can continue to distribute aid in Gaza for another 20 days The situation is deteriorating every day, with waste, water supply and transport problems […]

25,000 Dockworkers Shut Down West Coast Ports in Historic Antiwar Protest

4 May 2008

All 29 West Coast ports shut down as some 25,000 dockworkers went on a one-day strike against the war in Iraq Democracy Now May 02, 2008 In the largest labor strike since the invasion of […]

US Longshoremen’s Unions Strike against Iraq War

3 May 2008

Unions War Protest Shuts West Coast Ports New York Times, May 2, 2008 SEATTLE: West Coast ports were shut down on Thursday as thousands of longshoremen failed to report for work, part of what their […]

Arab Israeli lecturer and UCU member talking about her abuse as a student at Tel Aviv University

2 May 2008

An Arab Israeli FE lecturer and UCU member talking about her experience of abuse as a student at Tel Aviv University Podcast at BRICUP site

Palestinian academic, Samia al Botmeh, explains the value & effectiveness of academic boycott

2 May 2008

Palestinian academic, Samia al Botmeh, talks about the effectiveness of academic boycott of Israel. In conversation with Mike Cushman on 27 April 2008 Israeli military occupation devastates Palestinian education Israeli occupation is targetting the education […]

Poll: American public opinion very hostile to Israel

1 May 2008

Survey: Israel worst brand name in the world Israel Today Wednesday, November 22, 2006 Israel is suffering from the worst public image among all countries of the world. Anholt comments that to succeed in permanently […]