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Scottish civil society call for sanctions against Israel

11 July 2020

9 July 2020 As representatives of Scottish civil society, we are extremely concerned for the fate of the Palestinian people who have suffered under Israeli occupation, settler colonialism and apartheid for decades. Despite the numerous […]

Police Green Light for Anti-Palestine Racism, Islamophobia

10 July 2020

The BBCreports today that the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) in England and Wales will investigate racism in the police, including “whether the police are treating allegations of hate crime seriously.” There is mounting […]

MP made to undergo dubious re-education on ‘anti-semitism’

21 June 2020

Gidley identifies one of the five main anti-semitic themes he has uncovered as “variations on the historic blood libel” whereby Jews in Medieval Europe were massacred following Christian claims that Jews kidnapped Christian children and […]

Zionists hard at work suppressing rape and murder evidence

19 June 2020

The UK section of a right-wing, pro-Israel group is claiming that it has “convinced The Herald (of Scotland) to retract a historical lie that the flight of 700,000 Palestinians in 1948 was caused by “Israeli […]

George Floyd and Iyad Hallak were both murdered, but…

4 June 2020

The United States, Democrats and Republicans, are responsible for funding, arming and supporting the Israeli state. Indeed American Police forces send their officers over to Israel for ‘training’. As Azadeh Shahshahani, Ilise Benshushan Cohen write […]

SPSC Response to Richard Lyle MSP

29 May 2020

Scottish PSC Statement The Palestinian Nakba, ‘catastrophe’, is commemorated and marked as a day of resistance every year on the 15 May. Sandra White, Scottish National Party (SNP) MSP, submitted a motion to the Scottish […]

Atrocity (‘Nakba’) denial in the Scottish Parliament

27 May 2020

In response to a motion in the name of Sandra White (72nd Anniversary of the Nakba) that acknowledges the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people, Richard Lyle MSP has moved an amendment that peddles discredited […]

Statement: Richard Lyle should be suspended

24 May 2020

Scottish PSC Statement Richard Lyle is an Scottish National Party MSP and Deputy Convenor of the ‘Building Bridges with Israel’, an Israel lobby group that includes Israel’s Honorary Consul in Scotland, the Confederation of Friends […]

RIP Denis Goldberg – A True Jewish Hero of the Anti-Apartheid struggle…

18 May 2020

…..who was mourned by millions and hated by the Zionistsby Tony Greenstein6th May 2020 When Marek Edelman, Commander of the Warsaw Ghetto Resistance died in 2009, Moshe Arens, Likud’s former Foreign Minister wrote that: ‘He […]

Articles in The National & The Ferret on Lothian Pension Fund Investments in Corrupt Israeli Bank Hapoalim

10 May 2020

Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign have been campaiging through Time to Divest for divestment from Israeli Bank Hapolaim for several years. Billy Briggs reports on the corruption scandal engulfing the Bank today in a story carried […]