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Israeli police blocking participants and audience from entering the Palestine National Theater in E. Jerusalem

Armed Israeli police close theatre on first night of Palestinian festival

7 July 2012

Rory McCarthy, Jerusalem, Guardian, May 24th 2009 Shortly before the opening event was due to begin, a squad of around a dozen Israeli border police walked into the Palestinian National Theatre, in East Jerusalem, and […]

Introducing the BDS Movement

5 July 2012

The global movement for a campaign of Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against Israel until it complies with international law and Palestinian rights was initiated by Palestinian civil society in 2005, and is coordinated by […]

We campaign with others for a mass boycott campaign against the apartheid state of Israel

What we Stand for

3 July 2012

The Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign started in autumn 2000 in response to the Palestinian second uprising against Israeli occupation (intifada). The SPSC has branches and groups of supporters in several Scottish cities and universities, as […]

Motion by two Tory MSPs against SPSC and BDS

What they say about SPSC – the opposition

3 July 2012

The spokespersons for the Israeli Embassy in London, the Israeli Information Office in Giffnock and Scottish Friends of Israel may sometimes appear deranged but they have a sense of where some of the campaign in Scotland […]

palestinians swarm over the Israeli wall dividing occupied Golan from Syria

Joint Statement and Call for Action Presented to the 2005 World Social Forum

29 June 2012

By Occupied Palestine and Syrian Golan Heights Advocacy Initiative (OPGAI) END THE ISRAELI MILITARY OCCUPATION We, the undersigned civil society organizations, are part of the Palestinian and Arab people who have struggled for decades against […]

The Zionist massacres and violent destruction of much of Palestine in 1948

29 June 2012

Mechanisms of ExpulsionBy Salman Abu Sitta, Journal of Palestine Refugee Studies Vol 1/2 Autumn 2011 “This is an example of orientalism that people in the West would not believe what the Palestinians said. It is […]

Palestinian refugees on the move in 1948 - many were massacred by Zionist militias

The expulsion of the Palestinians re-examined

29 June 2012

By Dominique Vidal in Le Monde Diplomatique December 1997 “…250 killed, some of whom were unarmed prisoners. This was followed by a forced evacuation characterised by summary executions and looting…Similar scenarios were enacted, as Morris […]

Notes on Zionism, anti-semitism and Jewishness By Mike Marquesee

29 June 2012

“Until 1945, most Jews rejected the Zionist analysis – which was that anti-semitism was a permanent feature of non-Jewish societies, could not be challenged, and the only solution was a separate Jewish homeland…Most Jews thought […]

Zionism would bring back civilization and guard the Suez Canal for Britain

Zionism was an explicitly colonising movement under the protection of an imperial power

29 June 2012

Zionist Objectives Ralph Schoenman (from The Hidden History of Zionism Chapter 2)The Zionist movement would seek alternative imperial sponsors for this bloody enterprise; among them the Ottoman Empire, Imperial Germany, the British Raj, French colonialism […]

Notes on Anti-Semitism, Zionism and Palestine by Tariq Ali

28 June 2012

Il Manifesto 4 March 2002 1. Anti-semitism is a racist ideology directed against the Jews. It has old roots. In his classic work, The Jewish Question, A Marxist Interpretation, that was published posthumously in […]