Right to BDS

Scottish PSC, 23 February 2022 Robert Jenrick, a member of Conservative Friends of Israel, is a man found to have had questionable links to an Israeli businessman when he was housing secretary and who participated […]

8 October 2021 UCU Scotland Executive today passed this motion. UCUS Executive: Expresses major concern that UCU member David Miller has been sacked by Bristol University following a campaign by pro-Israel lobby groups; Considers Professor […]

Dear First Minister We note the letter from the Conservative MSP for Eastwood Jackson Carlaw concerning the Scottish Government’s adoption of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of antisemitism and the ‘confidence and supply’ […]

Scottish PSC has written to candidates in the 2021 Holyrood elections asking them to assert the ‘Right to BDS’, in other words, the right of public institutions, organisations and individuals to support the campaign of  Boycott […]

Scottish PSC welcomes the overwhelming votes by University and College Union (UCU) Scotland Congress to pass motions to defend Professor David Miller and to reject the discredited IHRA working definition. David Miller, a UCU member, […]

Scottish PSC expresses its full support for David Miller, currently Professor of Sociology at Bristol University and with previous posts at Strathclyde and Stirling universities. He has been a chosen target of pro-Israel groups in […]

On Thursday 10th September the Petitions Committee of the Scottish Parliament will consider SPSC’s petition to defend the right to BDS. We want the Scottish government to state explicitly that we have the right to campaign […]

“Ten years earlier most of the main SNP leaders signed a motion in the Scottish Parliament to send “an important message to the Palestinian people expressing Scotland’s disgust at their treatment at the hands of […]

  Defamation, harassment and threats – the risk in “special operations” against BDSYossi Melman, Maariv(Key points translated by Ofer Neiman) The ministry is divided into three sections: intelligence, awareness (media) and operations.Problems may arise when […]