Close down all Israeli State-financed projects in Scotland in a time of massacreProtest the Incubator TheatreAssemble at Bristo Square, Edinburgh 1.00pm Wednesday 30th July& DAILY, including weekends, until the show is cancelledIsrael calls its repeated massacres of Palestinians in Gaza ‘mowing the lawn’, a disgusting phrase for massive military violence against a virtually defenceless population…
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Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign welcomes today’s decision by the prestigious Stills Gallery to terminate the Israeli Embassy’s sponsorship of their forthcomng photography exhibition, A Thousand of Him, Scattered: Relative Newcomers in Diaspora. The Gallery has returned the Israeli Embassy’s £1,300 sponsorship money and removed the Embassy’s logo and name from the list of sponsors. The…
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Take a lawyer’s advice – visit the occupied territoriesBy David Middleburgh,Jewish Chronicle 24 January 2014 “…conviction rates are 99.7 per cent…there is no longer any point in fighting for basic rights…the court system was clearly a figleaf for a system of arbitrary justice where the guilt of the child is beside the point…a system that…
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Below is an example of the appeals that Burdon received to remain true to his long-term hostility to racism and Jim Crow in the US South. SPSC deplore any threats made to Burdon, if there were any, and welcome his decision to follow in the tracks of Bruce Springsteen, Stevie Wonder, Elvis Costello, Carlos Santana,…
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Israeli football, racism and politics: The ugly side of the beautiful gameJonathan Cook 25 April 2013 Rifaat Turk, the most successful Arab player in Israeli football and the first to be selected for the national team, in 1976, recalled that it “started to rain” every time he stepped on the pitch there was so much…
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Mahmoud Sarsak: ‘Football is my weapon of resistance’Friday 14 JuneFIFPro World – Anti-racism FIFPro – represented in the person of anti-racism spokesman and FIFPro Division Europe board member Tony Higgins – finally met Mahmoud Sarsak – the Palestinian footballer, former political detainee and hunger striker – on Tuesday night June 11th in Edinburgh. In a…