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Middle East Monitor’s evaluation of SPSC – an opinion we need to live up to

30 August 2015

Scottish activists lead the way on BDS Asa WinstanleyMiddle East Monitor28 August 2015 The SPSC stated succinctly its reasons for this act of cultural boycott in a press release: “There can be no normality for […]

Haaretz asks: Israelis scarce at Edinburgh Fringe – because of BDS?

27 August 2015

Israelis are but a Walking Shadow at This Year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe by Yair AshkeenaziHaaretz 27 August 2015 “…all the artists who spoke to Haaretz said the BDS protests were aimed solely at works or […]

Palestinian rights campaigners respond to “hypocritical” Festival chiefs

24 August 2015

MEDIA RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE USE Scots campaigning for Palestinian rights have responded to “hypocritical”comments by Fergus Linehan, the new director of the Edinburgh International Festival, and his predecessor Jonathan Mills. Last week Linehan and Mills […]

4 reasons the “anti-Semitism” attacks on Jeremy Corbyn are dishonest

19 August 2015

It was inevitable, shocking but not surprising. A determined opponent of all racism, Jeremy Corbyn is smeared by pro-Israel Blairites and the same pro-Israel media that helped Blair and Israel in their war crimes. BBC […]

MEDIA RELEASE: Clinton intervention fails to reverse Israel boycott

9 August 2015

Media Release: Sunday 9th August 2015, No Embargo Pro-Palestine campaigners say recent revelations of Hilary Clinton’s attempt to overturn the Edinburgh International Film Festival’s (EIFF) rejection of Israeli Government funding is evidence that “boycott works”. […]

Protests outside and inside Batsheva performances in Edinburgh kick off their UK tour and UK-wide protests

Israeli State-sponsored groups avoiding Edinburgh Festival because of human rights protests

9 August 2015

The Show Must Go on for Israeli Troupe Hounded Out of Edinburgh Festival in 2014Do they think the reception they’ll receive will be different this summer? “We really hope so,” Ulman shrugs. “Couldn’t be worse,” […]

US State Department intervened to defeat grass-roots Scottish boycott effort…and failed

9 August 2015

According to the front page headline in the Scotsman of Saturday 8 August 2015, Hilary Clinton weighed into Edinburgh film festival row, the court-mandated publication of her emails from 2009 reveal that the US Secretary […]

Letter from SPSC to US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation

4 August 2015

Across the whole range of Palestine solidarity groups and networks in the UK, none could write or appear even once in White supremacist newspapers or social media; it is unthinkable. Any association with any brand […]

The Bible was also used to "justify" an earlier settler colonial project of dispossession

Pulitzer prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges: “Why I support BDS”

29 July 2015

The Palestinians are poor. They are powerless. They have no voice or influence in the halls of power. They are demonized. They do not have well-heeled lobbyists doling out campaign contributions and pushing through pro-Palestinian […]

The BDS campaign, occupation, apartheid and settler colonialism

27 July 2015

The template was the settlement of Ulster centuries earlier in Britain’s oldest colony. The colonial power granted privileges to colonists who naturally incurred the hatred of the local people by their seizure of resources and […]