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Church of Scotland General Assembly 2013

MEDIA RELEASE: Church of Scotland General Assembly refuses to accept misuse of scripture to claim exclusive right to territory and reaffirms support for Palestinian rights

23 May 2013

MEDIA RELEASEThursday 23 May 2013 Delegates to the Church of Scotland General Assembly have today voted to adopt a report by its Church and Society Council which challenged “claims that scripture offers any peoples a […]

Honesty on Nuclear Weapons in Scotland and the Middle East

20 May 2013

Motion S4M-05982 calling for inspection of Israel’s vast nuclear arsenal has been closed, with 43 MSPs in support of S4M-05982 opposing nuclear weapons inScotland and the Middle East. 18 March 2013 43 signatories equals over […]

SPSC Edinburgh members leaflet General Assembly delegates, 23 May 2013

Church of Scotland General Assembly slams Israeli apartheid and land theft – suggests BDS needed

17 May 2013

The Inheritance of Abraham? A report on the ‘promised land’ is a ground-breaking report by the Church and Society Council that was overwhelmingly agreed this weekend at the annual General Assembly of the Church of […]

Israeli treatment of Palestinians is “appalling” says senior Scottish cleric

16 May 2013

“The Church of Scotland is right to criticise Israel because of the ‘appalling’ way it has treated the Palestinians, according to one of its most senior clerics. “The Very Reverend Gilleasbuig MacMillan, who is stepping […]

Correspondence between SPSC and Jerusalem Post

7 May 2013

“It is another matter altogether, a matter of very poor journalism, to ignore the views of the St Andrews police, the Hotel which cancelled the fundraiser, and the clear statement of denial you received from […]

The Bible was also used to "justify" an earlier settler colonial project of dispossession

Church of Scotland: “Bible is not a mandate to dispossess native people” – Zionists outraged

5 May 2013

Ephraim Borowski, Scottish Council of Jewish Communities Director, demanded that Christians condone the ethnic cleansing of Palestine and elsewhere as Biblically endorsed, or accept they are committing “an outrage to everything that interfaith dialogue stands […]

Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign

MEDIA RELEASE: Church of Scotland General Assembly refuses to accept misuse of scripture to claim exclusive right to territory and reaffirms support for Palestinian rights

Honesty on Nuclear Weapons in Scotland and the Middle East

Church of Scotland General Assembly slams Israeli apartheid and land theft – suggests BDS needed

Israeli treatment of Palestinians is “appalling” says senior Scottish cleric

Correspondence between SPSC and Jerusalem Post

Church of Scotland: “Bible is not a mandate to dispossess native people” – Zionists outraged

Planned protests force cancellation of JNF and Friends of the IDF fundraiser in St Andrews

FT reports G4S could divest from Israel to avoid “reputational risk”

Scottish Trade unions stand in solidarity with all Palestinian political prisoners and supports campaign to boycott G4S

Fakhri Barghouti: recounting a lifetime of struggle