Defence witnesses in ‘boycott = racism’ trial
All the potential witnesses agreed to provide testimony in support of the successful defence case, with the single exception of the Rt Hon Peter Hain, ex-campaigner against South African apartheid and later a New Labour Minister and supporter of Israeli apartheid:
Omar Barghouti PACBI (Palestinian Academic and Cultural Boycott)
Ghada Karmi, Palestinian writer and academic
Marion Woolfson is Honorary President of the Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign, and a long-term campaigner in Britain for Palestinian human and national rights. She was once called 'the most dangerous anti-Zionist in Britain by an Israeli daily. Many of her Palestinian friends have been killed by Israeli assassins
Dr. Hisham Genayem, Palestinian refugee
Moshe Machover, Israeli academic and anti-Zionist political activist
Dr. Michael Kearney, University of York
Dr. Keith Hammond, University of Glasgow
Yael Kahn, Israeli human rights activist
Liz Elkind, ex-President of the STUC, moved successful report and recommendation for BDS at STUC 2009 Perth Conference
Tony Greenstein, (JBIG) Jews for Boycotting Israeli Goods
Rt. Hon. Peter Hain MP, veteran anti-apartheid campaigner in the 70's, Chair of Stop All Racist Tours (awaiting reply)
Members of the public who witnessed the protest during the performance
BBC sound technicians who recorded the entire event (awaiting reply)