December 2013 – Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign

Highland Regional Council condemns Israeli illegal occupation and siege as JC warns of “sanctions tsunami” threatening Israel

19 December 2013

Highland Regional Councillors voted today in full Council to condemn “the Government of Israel for its continuing illegal occupation of Palestine’s East Jerusalem and the West Bank and for its continuing illegal blockade of […]

Divestment conference Edinburgh Oct 2013, full report

18 December 2013

Time to divest Conference, 19-20 October, Edinburgh Saturday 19 October Welcome and Introduction Maggie Chapman, Scottish Green Party Maggie told us that Denis Goldberg, South African anti-apartheid campaigner, had said apartheid still exists – In […]

The Charity Commission allows sham charities; The Cup Trust and the Jewish National Fund

5 December 2013

Charity Commission is protecting sham charities – not only tax scams for the wealthy but also ethnic cleansers of Palestine “William Shawcross, resigned as director of The Henry Jackson Society, a right wing ‘think-tank’ […]

Zionists attempt to criminalise support for BDS

4 December 2013

Professor Jake Lynch of Sydney University is the subject of legal proceedings initiated by an Israel-based organisation using allegations of racism in an attempt to criminalise support for BDS. Professor Lynch’s refusal to sponsor an […]

1936: British soldiers on armoured train with two Palestinian human shields

The shocking history of racism in most of the British Left on Zionism and Palestine

1 December 2013

How the left supported ethnic cleansingby Mike Marqusee30 November 2013 “The Arab Revolt of 1936-39 coincided with the Spanish Civil War. But whereas all sections of the British left rallied to the Spanish Republican cause, […]