Bullet points for a letter to Glasgow City Councillors

• asking for you to vote for motion for Mordechai Vanunu at the full council meeting on Feb 21st
• you are our representative in the City council
• support for Vanunu’s freedom to travel abroad and leave Israel.
• Vanunu is the elected Rector of Glasgow University
• sentenced to a fresh prison term by an Israeli court for “speaking to foreigners”
• 1986 - kidnapped from Rome after revealing Israel’s nuclear arsenal to the London Times
• during trial he was not allowed to see much of the evidence against him
• jailed for 18 years, first 11 in solitary
• guards not allowed to talk to him or be seen by him
• in the prison yard guards carride a portable structure to prevent him seeing anyone = torture
• Vanunu has given interviews to Scottish newspapers & talked with many Scots in Jerusalem
• Vanunu has been adopted by Amnesty & nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize by Desmond Tutu
• Israel claims it is keeping Vanunu because he still holds information that is a security threat.
• the idea is ridiculous because
  • the passage of 22 years renders his knowledge obsolete
  • many Scots and others have met with him many times; he has had ample time to tell us any supposed ‘secrets’
  • Vanunu told everything to the Sunday Times
• Vanunu has served his sentence in full
• should be allowed to leave Israel - this is all he wants
• support his human rights to travel freely
• support the rights of Glasgow University students to communicate freely with their elected Rector
• sizeable majority of Scottish Parliament and Scottish Government have declared their support for Vanunu
• "The less we talk about him the quicker he will fade into oblivion." Ariel Sharon's spokesman on Mordechai Vanunu