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Our task is to boycott and isolate Israel while sending the strongest message of solidarity with Palestinians.

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Hamilton
Lanarkshire Branch Meeting
6:30pm Tue, Apr 29
The Villa Hotel
49-51 Burnbank Road, ML3 9AQ
Aberdeen
First Picture Documentary Film Screening Tour
7pm Tue, Apr 29
Aberdeen Quaker Meeting House
98 Crown Street, AB11 6HJ
Edinburgh
Edinburgh Barclays Protest
10:30am Wed, Apr 30
Barclays Bank Edinburgh
10-15 Princes St, EH2 2AN
Forres
First Picture Documentary Film Screening Tour
7pm Wed, Apr 30
The Forres Tollbooth
The Courtroom, 80 High Street, IV36 1NX
Edinburgh
Palestine Museum Scotland Fundraiser
7pm Thu, May 1
Augustine Church
George IV Bridge, EH1 1EL

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“We know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians.”

Nelson Mandela, 1997

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  • International Workers Memorial Day 2025

    Murdered Palestinian workers have been remembered at events which have taken place around Scotland to mark International Workers’ Memorial Day. Starting with the West Lothian ceremony in Bathgate on Friday 25 April, Lewis from our trade union organising group spoke on behalf of his union the FBU, highlighting the suffering of Palestinian workers. In Edinburgh…

  • Working for solidarity while defending our communities

    SPSC Statement19 April 2025  SPSC’s primary purpose is to channel public opposition to the Zionist settler colonial project and to work to build effective solidarity with the Palestinian people as an extension to their struggle for freedom against Israel’s programme of apartheid, ethnic cleansing, occupation and genocide in Palestine. This means standing against the complicity…

  • Letter to Police Scotland, 16 April 2025

    SPSC’s founding member, Mick Napier, visited some Palestinian refugee camps and political contacts in Lebanon in February 2025. That visit coincided with the gathering of enormous crowds for the funeral of the assassinated Hezbollah leader, Hassan Nasrallah. Mick then returned to Scotland and was met by the political police. Letter to Police Scotland, 16 April…

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  • BDS successes of 2014 that need to be defended and extended

    In 2014, Israel attacked Gaza with overwhelming force and slaughtered over 2,200 Palestinian men, woman and children – over 10,000 were wounded, including 3,374 children, of whom over 1,000 were left permanently disabled. Palestinians heroically resisted the Israeli blitzkrieg and killed 67 of the invading Israeli soldiers (and five Israeli civilians). Around the world, BDS…

  • MEDIA RELEASE: Clinton intervention fails to reverse Israel boycott

    Media Release: Sunday 9th August 2015, No Embargo Pro-Palestine campaigners say recent revelations of Hilary Clinton’s attempt to overturn the Edinburgh International Film Festival’s (EIFF) rejection of Israeli Government funding is evidence that “boycott works”. The Scotsman wrote on Saturday’s front page that the effects of the May 2009 boycott “went right to the upper…

  • Caledonian Hotel hires Anthony Julius’ firm to muzzle SPSC

    “Our only defence against such wealthy and powerful opponents is that we are telling the truth: Anthony Julius is a racist because he suppports the racist Jewish State of Israel which systematically discriminates against its Arab citizens, denying them the same rights as Jewish citizens, and carries out a reign of terror against Palestinians in…