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Israeli Ambassador chased off Edinburgh campus after ‘talk fiasco’

25 October 2012

Last night’s protest at Edinburgh University saw Israeli Ambassador Daniel Taub fail to deliver an apologia for war crimes when about two hundred protestors outside the venue, Students for Justice for Palestine and Scottish Palestine […]

Sefton: Israel commits crimes against humanity but don't boycott

Peaceful protest in Edinburgh was “aggressive vandalism” by “Nazis” says Australian cultural bureaucrat

17 October 2012

By Mick Napier17 October 2012 “Sefton is in reality a complete fraud in claiming to support artistic freedom; he has not a single word to say about Israel’s violent suppressions of Palestinian artistic initiatives. While […]

Dead but not forgotten: a late obituary to Yitzhak Shamir (3rd from left) - a pro-Nazi who became Prime Minister of Israel

The Death of Yitzhak Shamir, pro-Nazi Zionist

11 October 2012

By Lenni Brenner Every major American daily newspaper ran an obituary upon the June 30 death of Yitzhak Shamir, Israel’s 7th Prime Minister, 1983-84 and 1986-92. Many said something critical about him, but none fully […]

In Memoriam: Marion Woolfson 11/02/1923 – 29/09/2012

3 October 2012

Marion Woolfson, Honorary President of the Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign, died on Saturday evening, some months after a stroke from which she never fully recovered. Increasingly infirm over the last two years, Marion was bitterly […]

Batsheva

Protest Batsheva – again – at Edinburgh Festival Theatre Tues 30th & Wed 31st October

3 October 2012

The Don’t Dance with Israeli Apartheid Coalition is calling for demonstrations against Brand Israel asset, Batsheva Dance Company, when they perform across the UK. The Batsheva tour starts in Edinburgh on October 30th and ends […]

A supposedly anti-Semitic cartoon according to Scottish Zionists

Israel rejects international conference on nuclear-free Middle East

21 September 2012

By Amir Oren, Haaretz – 20 Sept 2012 Israel expressed its strong opposition on Wednesday to an Arab initiative, supported by the Obama administration, to hold a conference that would debate the possibility of a […]

Boycott Batsheva protest in Edinburgh – BIN report

9 September 2012

Boycott campaigners turned the empty Zionist slogan “Culture unites, Boycotts Divide” totally on its head in Edinburgh last weekend, drawing some of Scotland’s best known cultural figures, many theatre–goers and Ohad Naharin, artistic director of […]

A massacre that reverberated round the world - but many Israeli massacres of Palestinians do not

Eye-witness to Sabra and Shatilla massacre

4 September 2012

Public meeting: 30 year commemoration of the Sabra & Shatila massacreEye-witness report by Dr Ben Alofs Ben Alofs was working as a nurse in West Beirut in the summer of 1982, which at the time […]

The journey that changed my view of art and politics

3 September 2012

by Liz Lochhead, poet, dramatist and Scottish Makar2 September 2012 …I was glad to join other Scottish artists and writers in signing a letter protesting the appearance of the Israeli Batsheva Dance Company at the […]

Regev was never challenged on his claims

The BBC told an outright lie about Rachel Corrie’s death

29 August 2012

BBC Radio 4’s World at One yesterday, Tuesday 28th August, can be heard here for a week after transmission. The programme covered the verdict which exonerated the Israeli military of any blame for the death […]