When the curtain rises in a few days on the 2026 Edinburgh International Film Festival, we can celebrate 20 years of keeping this internationally respected film festival free of any sponsorship and involvement by the genocidal state. In 2006, the EIFF accepted finance from the Israeli Embassy in London and only a determined SPSC-led campaign…
Continue Reading 2006-26 Successful Cultural Boycott in Scotland
SPSC joins the global boycott of Eurovision. The BBC, as a corporation, should not be broadcasting the competition again this year. Five countries have withdrawn from the competition, as calls grow for Israel to be banned as its illegal actions continue in Gaza and Palestine. Once again, the UK has refused to take a stand,…
Continue Reading SPSC joins the global boycott of Eurovision
By Kimberley Davidson Sitting down in Screen 3 at the recently reopened Filmhouse in Edinburgh, I questioned whether being there was the right thing to do. I wasn’t sure I could sit through a film we witnessed in real time. As an activist and organiser, my focus now is on staying emotionally able to continue—because…
Continue Reading Hearing Hind: Why The Voice of Hind Rajab Demands More Than Tears
Edinburgh International Film FestivalThrough grassroots campaigning and the mobilization of artists, filmmakers and community activists, the Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign and its allies caused the EIFF (Edinburgh International Film Festival) to reject Israeli Embassy sponsorship of the Festival.We only learned six years later through the forced publication of Hillary Clinton’s emails that she had set…
Continue Reading Cultural boycott victories in Scotland well before the 2023 genocide
Israeli daily reports on last Friday’s game that went ahead in Hampden, Scotland’s national stadium, in Glasgow “The Israeli women’s national soccer team faced surveillance, harassment by hosts and rival players and a threatening atmosphere on the part of pro-Palestinian protesters at the European Championship qualifier between Scotland and Israel on Friday.” The players played…
Continue Reading Israeli footballers in Scotland “We felt that we weren’t at all wanted here”.
Last night’s Glasgow leg of SPSC film show and discussion with Argentinian film-maker Cristian Pirovano was sold-out. Great atmosphere and lead-in to the campaign to stop the Israel-Scotland women’s football game in Glasgow on the evening of Friday, May 31st. The stadium is yet to be announced. SPSC fully supports GGEC-Glasgow’s Show Israeli Genocide the…
Continue Reading Sold-out Glasgow leg of Yalla! Yalla! film show with Argentine director