Articles – Page 34

Police protect Barclays investments in death against symbols of death

8 March 2016

Police Scotland seem to be lining up with Barclays Bank to prevent political activity on a public street against Barclays’ $25m investments in arms giant Raytheon. Barclays profits from military technology that Israel uses to […]

SPSC Edinburgh Branch Statement

18 February 2016

18th February 2016 SPSC has for many years developed a tradition of active grass roots campaigning to win support for the Palestinian call for BDS against Israel. Our approach has drawn harsh criticism from Zionists […]

David Cameron & Margaret Thatcher: defenders of apartheid

Government attack on BDS

16 February 2016

Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign16 February 2016 The UK Government plans to criminalise the adoption of BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) policies by local authorities, health boards and student unions. It will act directly “against organisations […]

Anti-Palestinian racism, Islamophobia and allegation of anti-Jewish racism

10 February 2016

In the June 2001 issue of the Edinburgh Star, ‘Journal of the Edinburgh Jewish Community’, available in Edinburgh Central Library, Esti Sheinberg wrote that, ’The Jewish passion for Jerusalem is to rebuild and live in […]

Pro-Israel organisations and Crown on the defensive as Sheriff throws out charge against Palestine campaigner

3 February 2016

3 February 2016, Kilmarnock Sheriff Court Sheriff Watson dismissed a charge of assault against Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign (Scottish PSC) member Mick Napier today following the collapse of the prosecution case. Challenges to the prosecution […]

Child murderers and proud of it - t-shirts of the Israeli army Givati Brigade

Holocaust Memorial Day 2016 – Remembering and drawing lessons

27 January 2016

We remember the legendary Marek Edelman, who was the last surviving commander of the ZOB, the Jewish Fighting Organisation, in the Warsaw Ghetto uprising…Edelman remained an anti-Zionist till his death, a national hero, in Poland […]

44% of British people ‘proud of the British Empire’ – we honour those who resisted and still resist

21 January 2016

The British Empire not only organised the Zionist colonisation of Palestine, and invaded and devastated Iraq more than once. These are details in a much larger bloody story. The full horror of this bloody empire […]

Protest Co-op Bank threats to Palestine campaign accounts

20 January 2016

Saturday 23rd & 30th January 2016 11am to 1pm Glasgow: Gordon Street Co-op Bank Corner of Mitchell St Edinburgh: George Street Co-op Bank between Hanover St & Frederick St The Co-op Bank […]

SPSC meetings: Settler-colonialism in Palestine and Ireland – a comparison

7 January 2016

Talk & discussion introduced by Mick Napier(SPSC National Committee) Israel is often usefully compared with the colonial-settler project in South Africa but comparison with the Scottish/British settler colonisation of the North of Ireland can be […]

Together Against Prevent

4 January 2016

We are a signatory to the ‘Together Against Prevent’ statement that says: We recognise and condemn the damage that Prevent’s “spot the potential terrorist” approach has made primarily in stigmatising and criminalising entire Muslim […]