Articles by martyn

A barbarian act masked as culture Turin will host the International Book Fair in May 2008.  The Guest of Honour is Israel.  This has resulted calls for its boycott and many authors have declared their […]

Why I Will Not Participate in the Turin Book Fair Tariq Ali When I agreed to participate in the Turin Book Fair, which I have done before, I had no idea that the ‘guest of […]

The Union of Jewish Students (UJS) is calling British students to serve in the Israeli Army. On campuses they have ordered Jewish Societies to spy on other students activity: "subtly without drawing attention.. monitor any […]

UK, Israel in anti-terror link-up THE ever-closer links between Britain and Israel in the fight against terrorism were stressed this week by Metropolitan Police commissioner Sir Ian Blair. There was a "natural sympathy" between the […]

New academic boycott plan meets swift resistance 28/03/2008 by Leon Symons in Jewish Chronicle – excerpts Attempt by the University and College Union national executive to reintroduce an academic boycott of Israel…has brought a swift […]

A majority of people believe that Israel and Iran have a mainly negative influence in the world, a poll for the BBC World Service suggests. The poll asked 28,000 people in 27 countries to rate […]

UN agency says sick Gazans die in ‘avoidable tragedies’ Israel has turned away more sick Palestinians from Gaza seeking treatment since Hamas seized control of the enclave and several have died each month unnecessarily, a […]

Unlawful homes for Israeli settlers, demolitions for Palestinians Reliefweb, 31st March, 2009 Mobile homes for an illegal Israeli settlement in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT) got the go-ahead within a week of Israeli bulldozers demolishing […]

Six Scottish PSC Delegates to the Cairo Conference on US & Zionist Ocupation will present this paper. "Any response to the crisis in the Middle East, and the need for more effective international solidarity with […]

On Tuesday 18th March the German Chancellor Angela Merkel addressed the Knesset in German. This in itself caused controversy with several Members of the Knesset (MKs) not attending due to the inappropriateness felt at the […]