April 2012 – Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign

Campaigners welcome Co-operative Group move to end trade links with companies that source goods from illegal settlements

30 April 2012

Boycott Israel Network (BIN) media release Saturday 28 April 2012 Palestine human rights campaigners today welcomed news that the UK’s fifth biggest food retailer, The Co-operative Group, will “no longer engage with any supplier of […]

Scottish TUC delegates join Palestine freedom struggle – unanimously!

25 April 2012

The delegates to the Annual Conference of the Scottish Trades Union Congress (STUC), the umbrella group for every trade union in Scotland, today voted unanimously and repeatedly against Israeli apartheid. The 450 delegates voted to: […]

Despite Shamir's entreaties, the thugs of the EDL and BNP still attracted to Israel's record of killing Palestinians

JNF ‘can’t trust Jews to defend Israel’

20 April 2012

JNF Spokesman attacks the (Jewish) community: ‘You don’t defend Israel properly’By Marcus Dysch, Jewish Chronicle, April 19, 2012 A leading pro-Israel activist believes the mainstream Jewish community “cannot be trusted” to defend Israel and claims non-Jews […]

Israeli official “arguments” against Welcome to Palestine are demolished

20 April 2012

Israeli spokespersons are usually given an easy time on the UK media, but not in the discussion of Welcome to Palestine 2012 on Al Jazeera’s Inside Story on 17 April 2012. Click here “It has always […]

Mick Napier shows how internationals were handcuffed and shackled by Israeli police, 8 July 2011

Israeli apartheid spreads from Tel Aviv to international airports

14 April 2012

TThe Israeli Interior Ministry is using Israel’s apartheid laws to control UK and other international airlines, and to prevent anyone trattempting to travel openly to Palestine. From today’s Haaretz (April 14, 2012): “In the letter, […]

Hebron settler grafitto - 'Gas the Arabs'

Israeli mass demo calling for mass killings of Arabs

12 April 2012

Mass demonstration of Israeli Jewish youth calling for the mass murder of Palestinians, Arabs. Many of the Whiteshirts are serving soldiers with power of life and death over Palestinians. The demonstration was to celebrate the […]

Scottish Government helped Israeli company deal with boycott “threatening future of Eden Springs UK”

7 April 2012

Documents obtained by the Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign show how a subsidiary of an Israeli company operating in Britain turned successfully for help from the Scottish Government to deal with what the Israeli company called […]

2012 April 3rd: APPEAL AGAINST ISRAEL FLAG “RACISM” CONVICTION

2 April 2012

Embargo: Tuesday 3rd April 2012 Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign: Media Release APPEAL AGAINST ISRAEL FLAG “RACISM” CONVICTION A former St Andrews University student who defaced an Israeli flag and referred to Israel as a […]