Protest Israeli Ambassador in Edinburgh 21 Feb, 4pm

From: Edinburgh University Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP).

(Report of protest here)

The Edinburgh University Politics society has invited Ron Prosor, Israel's ambassador to the UK, to speak on Monday 21st February at 5pm. The talk will be held in the McEwan Hall on Bristo Square.

Assemble at Bristo Square (Map) at 4pm. Bring flags, banners, placards, and megaphones!

Students for Justice in Palestine believe that by welcoming a mouthpiece of Israeli apartheid and ethnic cleansing to our University campus, the Politics Society make themselves complicit in the whitewashing of the suffering of the Palestinian people.

Israel, much like Apartheid South Africa did, is becoming a pariah state due to its continued illegal occupation of Palestine and the war crimes it has committed against the indigenous people there. An ambassador for the racist National Party in South Africa would not have been welcome at Edinburgh University campus during the international boycott of South Africa. In the same spirit of equality and justice, an ambassador for the racist, colonial state of Israel should not be allowed to spew his war propaganda on our campus.

We urge everyone, students and the wider public, to join us in a protest against Israel's continued occupation of Palestine and the presence of this ambassador for apartheid on our campus.

Let's send a clear message to Prosor that he is not welcome in Edinburgh.

See SJP website: www.sjp.eusa.ed.ac.uk/

See report of SJP successfully stopping Israel's recent racist tour here.

Facebook event: http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/event.php?eid=177354992309463