October 2017 – Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign

What is going on at £14 billion Strathclyde Pension Fund?

20 October 2017

Rolling Stone Magazine famously called Goldman Sachs investment bank “a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money.” But it’s not just one […]

Texas city to citizens: no Hurricane Harvey aid unless they promise not to boycott Israel

20 October 2017

ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union)19 October 2017 The city of Dickinson, Texas, is requiring applicants for Hurricane Harvey rebuilding funds to certify in writing that they will not take part in a boycott of Israel. […]

Zionism and Imperialism: The Historical Origins

17 October 2017

Abdul-Wahab KayyaliJournal of Palestine Studies, Vol. 6, No. 3 (Spring, 1977), pp. 98-112 Zionism as a modern political creed arose as a reaction to three interacting challenges or problems facing Europe in the nineteenth century, […]

The Balfour Declaration: A study in British duplicity

17 October 2017

Avi ShlaimMiddle East Eye25 August 2017 The Balfour Declaration, issued on 2 November 1917, was a short document which changed the course of history. It committed the British government to support the establishment of a […]

Targeting complicit companies: Israel’s Dead Sea industry – the case for BDS

15 October 2017

Stalls selling Israeli beauty products based on minerals extracted from the Dead Sea are a common sight in shopping centres around the world. There are a huge number of Dead Sea franchises operating, with parent […]

Zionist objectives and the Balfour Declaration

15 October 2017

Ralph Schoenman: Zionist Objectives Ch 2 of Schoenman’s Hidden History of Zionism (1988) “We can reasonably say that should Palestine fall within the British sphere of influence, and should Britain encourage Jewish settlement there, as […]

The Fight Goes On: Resisting the attack on support for Palestine

6 October 2017

On Monday, 11th Sept, at Aberdeen Sheriff Court, Sheriff Charlotte Coutts found SPSC member Ally Coutts (no relation) guilty of ‘acting in a racially aggravated manner with intent to cause distress and alarm’ for saying […]