Campaigning
Edinburgh – Vigil at the Mound, Princes Street, 5:30pm Thursday
Edinburgh Thursday 22nd November 5.30pm Vigil at the Mound, Princes Street – bring candles, placards, banners
Campaigning
Campaigning
Lobby at the Scottish Parliament, Thursday at 1pm
Edinburgh Thursday 22nd November 1pm Lobby at the Scottish Parliament for GAZA Put pressure on the Scottish Government and the Parliament during First Minister’s question time.
Batsheva
Batsheva protests and Zionist complaint answered
“The sad aspect is that Ohad Naharin sees the brutality of the Israeli military and its auxiliaries, the settlers. His reaction, however, is pathological, ostrich-like. “I continue to do my work, while 20 km from […]
On campus
Israeli Ambassador chased off Edinburgh campus after ‘talk fiasco’
Last night’s protest at Edinburgh University saw Israeli Ambassador Daniel Taub fail to deliver an apologia for war crimes when about two hundred protestors outside the venue, Students for Justice for Palestine and Scottish Palestine […]
Batsheva
Peaceful protest in Edinburgh was “aggressive vandalism” by “Nazis” says Australian cultural bureaucrat
By Mick Napier17 October 2012 “Sefton is in reality a complete fraud in claiming to support artistic freedom; he has not a single word to say about Israel’s violent suppressions of Palestinian artistic initiatives. While […]
Batsheva
Protest Batsheva – again – at Edinburgh Festival Theatre Tues 30th & Wed 31st October
The Don’t Dance with Israeli Apartheid Coalition is calling for demonstrations against Brand Israel asset, Batsheva Dance Company, when they perform across the UK. The Batsheva tour starts in Edinburgh on October 30th and ends […]
Batsheva
Boycott Batsheva protest in Edinburgh – BIN report
Boycott campaigners turned the empty Zionist slogan “Culture unites, Boycotts Divide” totally on its head in Edinburgh last weekend, drawing some of Scotland’s best known cultural figures, many theatre–goers and Ohad Naharin, artistic director of […]
Cultural
The journey that changed my view of art and politics
by Liz Lochhead, poet, dramatist and Scottish Makar2 September 2012 …I was glad to join other Scottish artists and writers in signing a letter protesting the appearance of the Israeli Batsheva Dance Company at the […]
Batsheva
Rachel Corrie verdict, Gaza soon “unliveable ” – don’t get mad, get moving!
IF you are angry at the Israeli court blaming Rachel Corrie for her own death under an Israeli bulldozer, while trying to intercede against a – routine – Israeli bulldozing of Palestinian homes and propertyIF […]
Batsheva
UK Zionists join Israeli Minister at Batsheva gig in Edinburgh
The Zionist Federation UK will be demonstrating in support of Batsheva and Israel outside the Edinburgh Playhouse Theatre. Israeli Minister Limor Livnat will attend one of the Israeli State-sponsored dance group’s three performances for the […]