Continuing dispossession – Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign

Gaza Genocide Emergency Committee Statement – in response to STV article published 22/7/2025

23 July 2025

Read the STV article here The Gaza Genocide Emergency Committee (GGEC) Edinburgh is disappointed yet again by the unprofessional and sinister behaviour of Edinburgh Council, Police Scotland and partners, who we liaise with in good […]

West Bank Report: Qalandiya

22 June 2025

Qalandiya checkpoint, or Atarot Terminal as the Israeli’s call it, is now one of the West Bank’s largest checkpoints. The new terminal was completed in 2019 and along with the Apartheid wall it forms an […]

Israel massacres many hundreds of Palestinian men women and children in January 2009

Freedom Flotilla’s ‘Handala’ in Glasgow – Will Challenge Blockade of Gaza

19 June 2023

Lock closure delays ‘Handala’, Freedom Flotilla undeterred in missionFriday June 23 After crossing Loch Ness and reaching partway through the Caledonian Canal, the Freedom Flotilla boat Handala is currently delayed in the Laggan Lock area […]

Israel caging Gaza as Coronavirus threatens

16 March 2020

The reckless US and UK cold war policy to support Al Qaeda against the pro-Soviet regime in Afghanistan led to blow back that still endangers us all. US sanctions on Iran, backed up by threats […]

Protest Israel’s siege of Gaza

6 May 2019

Support the Palestinian call to boycott Seret Israeli Film FestivalEdinburgh Wed 8 May 7.00pm, Cameo, TollcrossGlasgow Thu 9 May 7.30pm, Everyman, Princes Square (off Buchanan Street) Palestinians are in great danger Israeli soldiers are […]

Campaigners call for Wood shareholders to end investment in Israel

7 May 2018

On the week of Wood Group’s (now “Wood”) AGM, campaigners for Palestinian rights are protesting the company’s on-going involvement in Israel. The protests follow Wood’s recent increased activity in Israel, and the on-going impact of […]

Killing of Palestinians not ‘serious’ enough to warrant Israel arms embargo

27 April 2018

“Medecins sans Frontieres (MSF) report a ‘huge majority of patients – mainly young men, but also some women and children – have unusually severe wounds to the lower extremities. MSF medical teams note the injuries […]

Israeli journalist suggests to ‘exact a price’ from Ahed Tamimi, ‘in the dark, without witnesses and cameras

22 December 2017

Israeli society has been incensed this week with the video of Ahed Tamimi and two other girls from Nabi Saleh, who slapped the Israeli soldiers occupying their family yard. The story of her 15-year-old cousin […]

Targeting complicit companies: Israel’s Dead Sea industry – the case for BDS

15 October 2017

Stalls selling Israeli beauty products based on minerals extracted from the Dead Sea are a common sight in shopping centres around the world. There are a huge number of Dead Sea franchises operating, with parent […]

Fresh legal threats against SPSC from ‘Friends of Israel’ activist

29 July 2017

On July 20th Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign and Mick Napier as an individual received virtually identical letters from defamation lawyers who had been instructed by a member of Glasgow Friends of Israel, Matthew Berlow, to […]