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Discussion with Palestinian Nakba survivors – May 15th 2020

6 May 2020

Nakba Day – May 15th – commemorates the catastrophe (‘Nakba’) of the Palestinian people being ethnically cleansed, driven by planned massacres, from their homes and till this day denied the right to return to their […]

The extraordinary day SUTR flipped to accommodate organised racists

20 March 2020

Thanks only to the Coronavirus lockdown, Glasgow is spared the obscene spectacle today of supporters of Israeli Apartheid marching past Mandela Place within a column of committed anti-racists. SUTR insists COFIS will be allowed to […]

Israel caging Gaza as Coronavirus threatens

16 March 2020

The reckless US and UK cold war policy to support Al Qaeda against the pro-Soviet regime in Afghanistan led to blow back that still endangers us all. US sanctions on Iran, backed up by threats […]

Statement on the Glasgow march to mark Anti-Racism Day

4 March 2020

3 March 2020 – SACC As organisations opposed to all forms of racism, we regret that we are unable to support the march organised in Glasgow by Stand Up to Racism to mark the UN’s […]

Letter to today’s The National

29 February 2020

Letter to the Editor, The National, 29 February 2020 (HTML links added)“Another excellent article from David Pratt. (Modi is moving India away from Gandhi’s vision) The UK government may not exhibit the politics of hate […]

Is Sir Vincent Fean campaigning against elementary justice for the Palestinian people

26 February 2020

Sir Vincent Fean seems to have recently become the dominant public face and voice of the Balfour Project. The ex-diplomat is in a position where he could publicise the crimes of the Israeli Government and […]

When Holocaust Deniers Fall Out

16 January 2020

“The middle-class population in toto has continued to adhere to the ideology of anti-Semitism and rejoices at the Nazi solution to the Jewish problem in Poland…Polish workers had long before the war grasped the class […]

Israel/Palestine is a political and moral litmus test

18 December 2019

A man who is so loathed that he cannot appear in public in the UK has viciously attacked Jeremy Corbyn. Speaking from an undisclosed “location in Central London” and widely reported by the mainstream media, […]

Statement: SPSC Withdrawal from Chester event

31 October 2019

31 October 2019 I called one of the organisers of a conference in Chester last night (Wednesday 6pm) to tell him I was withdrawing from the event after Gilad Atzmon was added late to the […]

Campaigning

Help us defeat Israeli cyber-attacks against Palestine supporters

17 October 2019

Israel announced that it intended to “restrict these online activists’ circle of influence..so activists think their message is reaching others when in fact it is being contained”, according to Elad Ratson of Israel’s Foreign Ministry […]