Political – Page 2 – Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign

Statement on the Glasgow march to mark Anti-Racism Day

4 March 2020

3 March 2020 – SACC As organisations opposed to all forms of racism, we regret that we are unable to support the march organised in Glasgow by Stand Up to Racism to mark the UN’s […]

Israel/Palestine is a political and moral litmus test

18 December 2019

A man who is so loathed that he cannot appear in public in the UK has viciously attacked Jeremy Corbyn. Speaking from an undisclosed “location in Central London” and widely reported by the mainstream media, […]

Admit Israel is a Settler colonial state? Out of the Labour Party!

27 June 2019

On the BBC Today programme this morning, Justin Webb introduces a piece (1:52 in) on the “horror” among many Labour MPs at the Party reinstating left-wing MP Chris Williamson, accused of alleged anti-semitism. Lord Charles […]

Appeal for you to write a personal letter

3 March 2019

We publish below some of the letters sent to key players in Stand Up To Racism – Scotland.Appeal for you to write a letter (pls share) We have a bad situation here in Scotland – […]

Pro-Israel groups and their neo-Nazi allies in the UK

29 January 2019

Sammy Stein is a man who frolics in excrement and then flicks a speck of dirt off his nose. He works on behalf of the Israeli Embassy to defend Israeli mass murder, torture, sexual abuse […]

Hodge & McIntosh: false allegations of anti-semitism

10 October 2018

“Pro-war, pro-Israel Margaret Hodge accuses supporters of Palestine in the Labour Party of bringing that party into disrepute. Her own disgraceful cover up of child abuse as leader of Islington Council, her abuse of […]

Palestinian message to the Left + Gaza background and images

13 April 2018

Three important articles from Mondoweiss on Gaza 1. Contextualizing the Great March of Return by Haider Eid from Gaza2. Striking images from the last week of Gaza’s Great March of Return 3. The Gaza protests […]

BBC challenged over bias and complicity

1 December 2017

On 2nd November, the BBC published an article by Fiona Stalker, and ran an accompanying piece on Reporting Scotland. Throughout both pieces, individuals were allowed to make unfounded accusations against pro-Palestine supporters with no attempt […]

BBC becomes the latest establishment body to cosy up to the Israel lobby in Scotland

27 November 2017

The BBC has been criticised for its failures during an episode of the BBC Two “Victoria Derbyshire” show broadcast on 27 April – see article here. The BBC was found to have given a platform […]

Texas city to citizens: no Hurricane Harvey aid unless they promise not to boycott Israel

20 October 2017

ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union)19 October 2017 The city of Dickinson, Texas, is requiring applicants for Hurricane Harvey rebuilding funds to certify in writing that they will not take part in a boycott of Israel. […]