July 2015 – Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign

The Bible was also used to "justify" an earlier settler colonial project of dispossession

Pulitzer prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges: “Why I support BDS”

29 July 2015

The Palestinians are poor. They are powerless. They have no voice or influence in the halls of power. They are demonized. They do not have well-heeled lobbyists doling out campaign contributions and pushing through pro-Palestinian […]

The BDS campaign, occupation, apartheid and settler colonialism

27 July 2015

The template was the settlement of Ulster centuries earlier in Britain’s oldest colony. The colonial power granted privileges to colonists who naturally incurred the hatred of the local people by their seizure of resources and […]

How Israeli lacrosse pushes an ethnic supremacy agenda

22 July 2015

Should Israeli soldiers be able to brutalise Palestinian sports team members with impunity and then travel the world un-protested? The pro-Israeli gang, as usual, seek to prohibit peaceful protest against the sporting ambassadors of the […]

PRESS RELEASE: Protests planned at Edinburgh Israel games on anniversary of Gaza attacks

22 July 2015

For Immediate Release 22 July 2015 Human rights campaigners are planning protests at Israel’s participation in the FIL Rathbones Women’s 2015 U19 Lacrosse World Championship that starts tomorrow in Edinburgh at the Peffermill sports […]

British Government approved £4million of arms sales to Israel after Gaza bombardment

17 July 2015

Arms deals to Israel worth £4million were approved by Britain immediately after last summer’s bombardment of Gaza. The sales won official approval despite evidence suggesting British-made arms and components were used in the bombing of […]

The 51-Day War: Ruin and resistance in Gaza

15 July 2015

The Israeli attack on Gaza was increasing in intensity a year ago. Since the author is speaking at SPSC meetings across Scotland in August, I’ve just finished The 51 Day War: Ruin and Resistance in […]

Police keeping calm and maintaining order

Elbit Death Factory Shut Down

7 July 2015

We arrived at 5am on the 6th of July 15. It was a stunning morning as the sun warmed us a we walked towards the factory. The day previously, 7 members of the Scottish Palestine […]