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  Defamation, harassment and threats – the risk in “special operations” against BDSYossi Melman, Maariv(Key points translated by Ofer Neiman) The ministry is divided into three sections: intelligence, awareness (media) and operations.Problems may arise when the operations section, as hinted by Erdan at the YNET conference on BDS this year, will try to carry out,…

Massacre and ethnic cleansing are popular with Jewish Israelis Pew Research Centre reports today (8 March 2016) that “nearly half of Israeli Jews say Arabs should be expelled or transferred from Israel, including roughly one-in-five Jewish adults who strongly agree with this position”.In settler colonial states, of which Israel is a modern example, there is…

Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign16 February 2016 The UK Government plans to criminalise the adoption of BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) policies by local authorities, health boards and student unions. It will act directly “against organisations that impose boycotts” and it will encourage “others to take such bodies to court”.  Tories echo the dishonest Zionist claim…

Scottish PSC Statement, 17 November 2015 Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign (SPSC) has been committed to campaigning for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) of Israel since the call was launched from Palestine in 2005. Even before that call SPSC had worked to defeat the bases of support for Israel in Scotland, for example, by campaigning vigorously…

Israel launches a culture warYvonne RidleyFriday, 28 August 2015 While Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is determined to scupper the historic nuclear deal with Iran, his Culture and Sports Minister, Miri Regev, has opened up a second front by targeting a state-run European opera company. The Tel Aviv minister has become embroiled in a culture…

Israelis are but a Walking Shadow at This Year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe by Yair AshkeenaziHaaretz 27 August 2015 “…all the artists who spoke to Haaretz said the BDS protests were aimed solely at works or troupes supported by the Israeli government, not at Israeli creators and actors specifically. Thus, they noted, though there are no…