Since SPSC was founded in 2000, we have always sought to find ways to send a strong message to Palestinians that we stand in solidarity with them, to Israel that we mean to isolate them for their crimes, and to our governments and institutions that we are here to challenge their complicity.
The Palestinian Call for BDS, launched in 2005, aligned with our existing approach and SPSC has adopted and campaigned for BDS ever since.
Israeli daily, Ha’aretz, reported that ‘similar boycott efforts also occur in England, there is a consensus that it’s worse in Scotland…Every scheduled event in Scotland involving an official or even semi-official Israeli figure will be disrupted by demonstrators.‘
The article quote an Israeli diplomast in London that: ‘Every appearance by an official Israeli representative in Scotland is like a visit to enemy territory.‘