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Edinburgh newsletter – May 2013

6 May 2013

Edinburgh SPSC Branch Newsletter for May Welcome to this late-spring newsletter from the Edinburgh branch of the Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign. We have a very busy month upcoming with important events both new and […]

The Bible was also used to "justify" an earlier settler colonial project of dispossession

Church of Scotland: “Bible is not a mandate to dispossess native people” – Zionists outraged

5 May 2013

Ephraim Borowski, Scottish Council of Jewish Communities Director, demanded that Christians condone the ethnic cleansing of Palestine and elsewhere as Biblically endorsed, or accept they are committing “an outrage to everything that interfaith dialogue stands […]

Dancers from Lajee Cultural Centre, Aida Refugee Camp, Bethlehem

Lajee Cultural Centre tour of Scotland: 15-23 June

5 May 2013

Audiences were so impressed by our young friends from Lajee Cultural Centre in Aida Refugee Camp in Bethlehem that they are back again this year. Your solidarity is especially needed now: Israeli occupation forces have been […]

Scottish book launch of ‘Generation Palestine – Voices from the BDS Movement’: 23 – 30 June

5 May 2013

Rich Wiles, author of Behind the Wall, and a photographer who has run a photography skills project in Aida Camp, Bethlehem for many years, is editor of this important collection of contributions from Pluto Press, […]

The Politics of Effective Solidarity: SPSC residential weekend of discussion: 14-16 June

5 May 2013

You are invited to participate in the latest of SPSC’s open-ended discussion that explore the degree of consensus among participants on a range of topics that need to be addressed if campaigning for solidarity with […]

Mahmoud Sarsak tour of England, Scotland and Ireland

5 May 2013

Mahmoud Sarsak Scottish leg of tour: 1-16 JuneMahmoud Sarsak was a member of the Palestinian national football team who was seized by Israeli troops, interned without charge and tortured over many weeks in Israel’s notorious […]

Protest JNF Charity Shoot at Cowan’s Law: 4 June

5 May 2013

The Jewish National Fund, experts in racist land administration, have long faced the opposition of Palestine solidarity campaigners in Scotland. The JNF is responsible for dispossessing tens of thousands of Palestinians of their lands, for […]

Planned protests force cancellation of JNF and Friends of the IDF fundraiser in St Andrews

25 April 2013

An event to be held at a St Andrews hotel, aimed at raising funds for the Friends of the IDF and the JNF, has been cancelled on police advice in the face of serious mobilisations […]

Hajo - survived Auschwitz with his humanity intact

Auschwitz survivor Hajo Meyer sends message of support for protests against JNF & FIDF

25 April 2013

The names Jewish National Fund and Israeli Defence Force are both deceitful. The former is a so called “private” organisation which however had the exclusive right to acquire private land which was abandoned by its […]

Mahmoud Sarsak, risked death to avoid illegal detention or exile

June in Scotland will be a busy month – help us

24 April 2013

Mahmoud Sarsak Scottish tour: 1-16 JuneMahmoud Sarsak was a member of the Palestinian national football team who was seized by Israeli troops and held without charge in Israel’s notorious prison system. After three years, Sarsak […]