Statements

Scottish PSC Statement On 21 March 1960 the police in Sharpeville, South Africa, opened fire and killed 69 peaceful demonstrators who were protesting aègainst the apartheid ‘pass laws’.  On this day every year the UN […]

Nicola Sturgeon has come under pressure over the Scottish Government’s adoption of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of antisemitism with respect to the ‘confidence and supply’ agreement with the Scottish Green Party (SGP) […]

Scottish PSC Statement The Palestinian Nakba, ‘catastrophe’, is commemorated and marked as a day of resistance every year on the 15 May.  Sandra White, Scottish National Party (SNP) MSP, submitted a motion to the Scottish […]

Scottish PSC Statement Richard Lyle is an Scottish National Party MSP and Deputy Convenor of the ‘Building Bridges with Israel’, an Israel lobby group that includes Israel’s Honorary Consul in Scotland, the Confederation of Friends […]

31 October 2019 I called one of the organisers of a conference in Chester last night (Wednesday 6pm) to tell him I was withdrawing from the event after Gilad Atzmon was added late to the […]

The following is a motion being raised at the SNP Conference taking place in Aberdeen this weekend. Given Israel’s illegal occupation, settlement building, imprisonment, home demolitions, their ongoing policies of apartheid, and the killing and […]

“When the Palestinians see themselves reflected in the struggles of the victims of racism around the world, how can we in the UK see the Palestinians as a divisive issue and exclude our struggle against […]

“Palestinians have situated their struggle, the BDS movement, as part of a wider struggle against racism. Week after week Israel’s crimes escalate, fuelled by racism and genocidal discourse so malevolent that even Israeli generals, prominent […]

On International Women’s Day Scottish PSC received the following message from Nelson Mandela’s daughter-in-law, Rayne Rose Mandela, and her daughter Nodiyala, Nelson Mandela’s granddaughter, from Eastern Cape.  Message, 8 March 2018: Greetings to those opposing […]