August 2009 – Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign

Defence witnesses in ‘boycott = racism’ trial

24 August 2009

All the potential witnesses agreed to provide testimony in support of the successful defence case, with the single exception of the Rt Hon Peter Hain, ex-campaigner against South African apartheid and later a New Labour Minister […]

Israeli academic reluctantly comes round to support boycott

23 August 2009

Time to boycott Israel by Neve Gordon Friday 21 August For the sake of our children, I am convinced that an international boycott is the only way to save Israel from itself Israeli newspapers this […]

Desmond Tutu: "If you are neutral in conditions of oppression, you have chosen the side of the oppressor."

The moral bankruptcy of ‘balance’ between oppressor and oppressed

21 August 2009

Can we talk? The Middle East “peace industry” Faris Giacaman, 20 August 2009 Upon finding out that I am Palestinian, many people I meet at college in the United States are eager to inform me […]

Amnesty International pulls out of Cohen concert fund

20 August 2009

Amnesty int’l withdraws from Israel concert fund following campaign by PACBI, Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel and the New York Campaign for the Boycott of Israel, 19 August 2009 "We […]

A strange case of ethical schizophrenia – lamenting dispossession while celebrating the dispossessor

20 August 2009

by Mick Napier (Chair, Scottish PSC) & Marion Woolfson (Honorary President, Scottish PSC) 20 August 2009 The Festival of Spirituality and Peace, which opened in Edinburgh on August 9th, will be running two exhibitions simultaneously […]

Divestment decision follows pressure

20 August 2009

BlackRock Divests from the West Bank by Erik Hagen in Norwatch 20 August 1009 “We have received confirmation from BlackRock that Africa-Israel Investments no longer is part of their portfolio,” Johnny Anderson, Information Manager of […]

Apartheid South Africa and Israel were close strategic allies

15 August 2009

Palestine – the view from South Africa by Alain Gresh, Le Monde diplomatique – August 13, 2009 The leaders of the National Party were known Nazi sympathisers (John Vorster, its leader and later prime minister, […]

CIA-Trained Security Chiefs Elected to the Fatah Leadership

15 August 2009

What Actually Happened in Fatah’s Elections? by Esam Al-Amin Counterpunch, August 14-16, 2009 "Dick Cheney’s Middle East advisor, David Wurmser, admitted the failed effort …"It look(ed) to me that what happened wasn’t so much a coup […]

Out in the cold from another world body: Israelis complain Palestinian names being used in Palestine

15 August 2009

World Archaeological Congress excludes Israelis from Ramallah 13th August 2009 Israel’s Antiquity Authority bitterly condemned the World Archaeological Congress for failing to invite Israelis to a conference in the West Bank city of Ramallah. This follows […]

Israeli moves to stop Gaza war crimes revelations

4 August 2009

Israel’s Campaign to Silence Human Rights Groups by Jonathan Cook In a bid to staunch the flow of damaging evidence of war crimes committed during Israel’s winter assault on Gaza, the Israeli government has launched […]