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Transcript of Chomsky Talk

13 November 2009

Professor Noam Chomsky was interviewed by telephone before live audiences at three locations in Edinburgh and Glasgow on 10 November 2009. The interview and public meetings were sponsored by Radio Ramadan Edinburgh, Scotland Against Criminalising Communities and […]

Israel practices a cruel water apartheid

Amnesty: Israel is ‘denying Palestinians water’

7 November 2009

Jewish Chronicle By Jessica Elgot, October 27, 2009: Israel is denying Palestinians their fair share of water by blocking projects to improve water supplies, Amnesty International has alleged. In a new report, the human rights […]

4th Nov 2009: PALESTINE CAMPAIGNERS SAY BOYCOTTING “ISRAELI APARTHEID” IS NOT RACIST

7 November 2009

Lawyers representing five Palestine supporters arrested last year for disrupting a concert by an Israeli group will argue at Edinburgh Sheriff Court tomorrow and Friday this week that to boycott Israel is not racist. The […]

Israel: UN ‘detached from reality’ for adopting Goldstone report

6 November 2009

Haaretz 06 Nov 2009: http://www.haaretz.c om/hasen/spages/1126213.html Israel on Friday rejected a United Nations General Assembly resolution urging an investigation into a report saying war crimes were committed in Gaza, and condemned the world body vote […]

Israel’s War on Palestinians includes Football

2 November 2009

Demonstrate for Palestine at the Hapoel Tel Aviv game on Dec 2 Download Leaflet Israel attacks Palestinian sports facilities, bombed Gaza stadium Israel usually prevents the Palestinian team from competing: Before the last World Cup, […]

Leith Festival repudiates Veolia

1 November 2009

At their board meeting in October 2009 Leith Festival organisers decided to refuse any future sponsorship from Veolia. Their decision followed a presentation by Scottish PSC on Veolia’s complicity in Israel’s occupation of Palestinian land.

17 Oct 2009; Israel could face prosecution for “war crimes”

17 October 2009

Media Release; Saturday October 17th 2009: Israel could face prosecution for “war crimes” The United Nations Human Rights Council voted to approve the Goldstone report yesterday in a move that could see Israeli […]

A New Activists Network for the BDS Campaign

14 October 2009

Over the weekend of the 2nd to 4th October an impressive gathering of 69 BDS activists from 12 different organizations in the UK, Ireland, Norway and France met at Wooler Youth Hostel in Northumberland to […]

Brand Israel

Why the Israeli brand is toxic

13 October 2009

The Israeli Brand by Craig Smith in Adbusters13 October 2009 In March 2009 New York-based GfK Custom Research and British “place branding” consultant Simon Anholt released the global Nation Brands Index (NBI). It rates countries […]

Israel blocks, detains and bombs Palestinian football players

20 September 2009

Israel’s War on Palestinian Football amended version of article by Jim McGreevy of Irish PSC Sport in Israel is often overshadowed by the political, economic and military situation but discrimination in sport against Palestinians is […]