July 2009 – Page 2 – Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign

Israel destroys Palestinian homes to build Jewish settlements from which Palestinians are barred

Esti Sheinberg’s article in the Edinburgh Star is naked racism against Palestinians and Muslims

8 July 2009

by Mick Napier Looking through some old files I saw a piece entitled For a Jewish, United Jerusalem written by one Esti Sheinberg in the June 2001 issue of the Edinburgh Star, ‘Journal of the Edinburgh […]

Doctors complicit in torture regime in Israeli gulag

7 July 2009

Dear WMA Council Chair Dr Edward Hill and the Council, We the undersigned physicians from 43 countries wish to publicly protest and appeal against the recent appointment of Dr Yoram Blachar, longstanding President of the […]

World Zionist Organisation: theft, naked theft, endless theft, ongoing theft of Palestinian land

7 July 2009

Lawsuit Reveals West Bank Land Fraud by Amy Teibel, Associated Press 20 June 2009 …the World Zionist Organization, acting as an agent of the Israeli government, took private Palestinian land in the West Bank and […]

Obama – a bow tie covering throat cancer

6 July 2009

Smile on the face of the tiger by John Pilger 11 June 2009 from The New Statesman Obama’s speech in Cairo on the Middle East peace process was seductive, but its content was as morally […]

Rabbi, ex-settler, denounces political exploitation of Nazi Holocaust by some US Jewish leaders

6 July 2009

Is Barack Obama Hitler?Rabbi Brad Hirschfield, 27 October, 2008 How can the same people who pride themselves on maintaining the importance of Holocaust memory invoke the real horrors of the past as a political tool? […]

Egyptian security thugs routinely brutalise Palestinians at Rafah border crossing

6 July 2009

Egyptian Authorities Punish Two Activists for their Pro-Palestinian Solidarity Work: Inhuman conditions at Rafah crossing The following day, the 28th of June, after many hours of waiting, a bus carrying Palestinian passengers, as well as […]

Jordanian trade unionists beaten and arrested in boycott demonstration

6 July 2009

Anti-Israel protest in Amman by Abdul Jalil Mustafa in Arab News 6 July 2009 AMMAN: Jordanian police yesterday used force to disperse a group of trade unionists and politicians who tried to stage a sit-in […]

A supposedly anti-Semitic cartoon according to Scottish Zionists

‘The boycott of Israeli academic institutions is… a moral duty rather than a moral offence.’

4 July 2009

Tom Hickey is a Principle Lecturer in Aesthetics and Political Economy at the University of Brighton and member of the British Committee for the Universities of Palestine (BRICUP) that was established 5 years ago by […]

It is not the STUC, and those that support BDS, that are the racists.

4 July 2009

Mary Senior, Assistant Secretary, Scottish Trades Union Congress (STUC) speaking at ISM France conference, 30 June 2009 I have seen the apartheid wall, the checkpoints, and the displacement of people from their homes and their […]

Israeli doctors collude in systematic and widespread torture by Israeli security forces

3 July 2009

Storm Over Dr. Blachar – Israeli Doctors Collude in Torture by Jonathan Cook, Nazareth, Israel. Israel’s watchdog body on medical ethics has failed to investigate evidence that doctors working in detention facilities are turning a blind […]