Campaigning – Page 16

In Scotland

The Iona Call 2012

7 June 2012

We support Palestinians in their non-violent resistance to Israeli injustice and oppression. We endorse their call for boycott, disinvestment and sanctions (BDS) and other forms of non-violent direct action. We call on Christians to put […]

Church of Scotland votes overwhelmingly to lobby Government to “end the inhumane blockade of Gaza”

4 June 2012

Jewish Chronicle: Scottish Church votes to ignore Israel in campaignsJonathan Kalmus 31 May 2012 The Scottish Church will no longer consider the Israeli perspective when campaigning on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, its General Assembly has voted. […]

Protest Israeli State-funded Batsheva Dance company at Edinburgh International Festival

1 June 2012

Support the call by Don’t Dance with Israeli Apartheid to the Batsheva Dance Company to cut all ties to the Brand Israel campaign and take a stand against the Israeli government’s violations of Palestinian rights. […]

Campaigners welcome Co-operative Group move to end trade links with companies that source goods from illegal settlements

30 April 2012

Boycott Israel Network (BIN) media release Saturday 28 April 2012 Palestine human rights campaigners today welcomed news that the UK’s fifth biggest food retailer, The Co-operative Group, will “no longer engage with any supplier of […]

Scottish TUC delegates join Palestine freedom struggle – unanimously!

25 April 2012

The delegates to the Annual Conference of the Scottish Trades Union Congress (STUC), the umbrella group for every trade union in Scotland, today voted unanimously and repeatedly against Israeli apartheid. The 450 delegates voted to: […]

Despite Shamir's entreaties, the thugs of the EDL and BNP still attracted to Israel's record of killing Palestinians

JNF ‘can’t trust Jews to defend Israel’

20 April 2012

JNF Spokesman attacks the (Jewish) community: ‘You don’t defend Israel properly’By Marcus Dysch, Jewish Chronicle, April 19, 2012 A leading pro-Israel activist believes the mainstream Jewish community “cannot be trusted” to defend Israel and claims non-Jews […]

Israeli official “arguments” against Welcome to Palestine are demolished

20 April 2012

Israeli spokespersons are usually given an easy time on the UK media, but not in the discussion of Welcome to Palestine 2012 on Al Jazeera’s Inside Story on 17 April 2012. Click here “It has always […]

Mick Napier shows how internationals were handcuffed and shackled by Israeli police, 8 July 2011

Israeli apartheid spreads from Tel Aviv to international airports

14 April 2012

TThe Israeli Interior Ministry is using Israel’s apartheid laws to control UK and other international airlines, and to prevent anyone trattempting to travel openly to Palestine. From today’s Haaretz (April 14, 2012): “In the letter, […]

Freedom for us all – South African-Palestinian musical collaboration

30 March 2012

Apartheid: wrong in South Africa, wrong in Palestine http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4rLfja8488

Top British actors call for cancellation of invitation to Israeli theatre group to perform at London

30 March 2012

Globe Olympic Shakespeare Festival challenged for inviting Israeli National Theatre David Calder, Trevor Griffiths, Jonathan Miller, Mark Rylance, Emma Thompson, Harriet Walter call on Globe to withdraw invitation to Israeli theatre, Habima Rylance – […]