Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign

Workshop: Get involved with SPSC Aberdeen!
2025-06-19 19:30 - 21:00, 2025-10-22 19:00 - 20:30 (Europe/London) | Aberdeen Trades Union Council, 22a Adelphi, ABERDEEN, AB11 5BL, United Kingdom
Are you keen to get more involved in working with SPSC Aberdeen? This session will give you an overview of Scottish PSC, our past and current activities in Aberdeen, the politics of our campaign, and explore the ways you can get involved. It’ll be informal and lots of chances to ask questions.
We need people to take on a range of roles and activities, for example:

support for social media
research
writing
outreach and community engagement
graphic design
film-making
database work
helping at demos
events organising
political education
fundraising
and much more!!

REGISTER: To register, email aberdeen@scottishpsc.org.uk

SPSC stall at Eid on the Terrace
2025-06-22 11:00 - 17:00 | Union Terrace Gardens, Union Terrace, ABERDEEN, AB10 1NJ, United Kingdom
Organised jointly by AMIC, Masjid Alhikmah, Crown Terrace, Turkish Mosque and Aberdeen Muslims, Eid on the Terrace will be held on Sunday 22nd June 2025 11:00am – 5:00pm in Union Terrace Gardens, Union Terrace, Aberdeen AB10 1NJ.
This will be a free fun and family event with Bouncy Castles & Kids Play, Clothes Stalls, Food and Snack Stalls, Henna and Facepaint etc.
SPSC will also be there with a stall so come and visit us!

Speaker event: Free Speech on Genocide, with Haim Bresheeth
2025-06-23 19:30 - 21:00 | Aberdeen Quaker Meeting House, 98 Crown Street, Aberdeen, AB11 6HJ, United Kingdom
Aberdeen Talk on Free Speech on Genocide with Haim Bresheeth Monday 23 June at 7.30pm Quaker Meeting Hall
Join us at 7.30pm, Monday June 23rd, at the Quaker Meeting Hall, 98 Crown Street Aberdeen to hear a talk by Haim Bresheeth with Q&A.
Haim Bresheeth is a Jewish anti-Zionist activist, film-maker and academic. He is the son of Holocaust survivors and is the co-founder of the Jewish Network for Palestine.
Haim will share his thoughts on the disgraceful attempts to close down free speech on Israeli genocide, which we are seeing both in academia (e.g. locally, by the University of Aberdeen) and more widely. As well as Haim’s presentation, there will be a chance for discussion and to find out how you can get involved in our campaign for Free Speech on Genocide.
Register at: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/haim-bresheeth-free-speech-on-genocide-tickets-1384390442079?aff=oddtdtcreator

Home Bargains National Day of Action
2025-06-28 11:00 - 16:00 | Augustine, The Ark, Quaker House, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen, United Kingdom
On Saturday 28th June we are launching our No Bargains with Genocide campaign targeting Home Bargains.
Home Bargains are the fastest growing retailer in the UK and stock an alarming amount of Israeli made skin care, cleaning products, baby products and wet wipes. All made using water which is illegally stolen from Palestinians (see our statement for further details)
Join us at one of our 8 actions across Scotland to say No Bargains with Genocide!
Locations:
Aberdeen: Beach Boulevard Retail Park, Aberdeen AB11 5EJ @ 11am
Argyll & Bute: Lochavullin Industrial Estate, Lochavullin Dr, Oban PA34 4BW @ 2pm
Dundee: The Stack Retail & Leisure Park, Harefield Rd, Dundee DD2 3XN @ 12pm
Edinburgh: Meadowbank Shopping Park Moray Park Terrace Morray, Park Terrace, Edinburgh EH7 5TS @ 2pm
Glasgow: West End Retail Park, Crow Rd, Glasgow G11 7RY @ 2pm
Lanarkshire: Hamilton West Retail Park, Unit 3 Douglas Park Ln, Hamilton ML3 0DF @ 2pm
Perth: Saint Catherines Retail Park, St Catherine’s Rd, Perth PH1 5XA @ 2pm
Scottish Borders: Stirling St, Galashiels TD1 1BY @ 2pm

Palestine Delegation Report Back
2025-07-01 19:00 - 20:30 | Aberdeen Quaker Meeting House, 98 Crown Street, Aberdeen, AB11 6HJ, United Kingdom
The SPSC Delegation has recently returned from Occupied West Bank, now under military closure as Israel escalates its project of genocide and ethnic cleansing.
Join us for this public meeting to hear about the situation on the ground and what you can do at home to fight for an end to the genocide, and justice, equality, and freedom for Palestinians.
Book here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/palestine-delegation-report-back-tickets-1425681915989?aff=oddtdtcreator

ABERDEEN: STOP TRUMP demo
2025-07-26 12:00 - 14:00 | William Wallace statue, Union Terrace, Union Terrace, ABERDEEN, AB10 1NP, United Kingdom
The United States continues to bankroll apartheid, occupation and genocide, using Israel to buy and test its latest weapons, to be its bully in the Middle East and to do its dirty work around the world, helping to prop up authoritarian, repressive regimes that protest US interests.
For that reason, SPSC Aberdeen will be joining the coalition demonstration against Trump’s visit, from 12noon on Saturday at Union Terrace Gardens (Wallace Statue). Down with imperialism and zionist settler colonialism!
FREE PALESTINE!

Aberdeen Demo: No Justice, No Peace!
2025-08-11 12:00 - 14:00 | Aberdeen Art Gallery, Schoolhill, ABERDEEN, AB10 1FQ, United Kingdom
No justice, no peace: accountability for Israel’s crimes now!

We gather to mourn the dead of Gaza, and raise our voices against the crimes ongoing across the occupied Palestinian territories. The ‘ceasefire’ has not brought peace and it certainly has not brought accountability for the atrocities committed by the Israeli state and its supporters. We raise our voices against the colonialist and imperialist projects of Israel and its allies, including our own Scottish and UK governments.

Join us this Saturday outside Aberdeen Art Gallery, 12-2pm.

Home Bargains Day of Action: Aberdeen
2025-08-30 11:00 | ABERDEEN, Aberdeen, United Kingdom
On Saturday, 30th August, Scottish PSC branches nationwide will once again take action against variety store chain Home Bargains, to oppose their continued stocking of products originating from apartheid Israel. The campaign is getting momentum, as comrades in Belfast, Sheffield, Halifax, York and beyond are all working hard to ensure the retailer ceases all trading with the genocidal state.
Home Bargains sells an overwhelming number of Israeli-made wet wipes, cleaning products and skin care products – products made in illegal Israeli settlements, using an unsustainable amount of water, stolen from Palestinians in the West Bank and controlled by the Israeli military.
Skin care products sold in Home Bargains, such as the “Dead Sea Collection”, also exploit natural resources from the Dead Sea region – a region Palestinians are not even allowed to enter.
JOIN US!
The Aberdeen Branch is taking part in the day of action at Home Bargains stores across the city, from 11:00 AM, Saturday, 30th August:
Berryden Retail Park, AB25 3SG
Beach Boulevard Retail Park, AB11 5EJ
Portlethen Retail Park, AB12 4XP
Bridge of Don Retail Park, AB23 8JW
While you’re here, sign and share our letter to Home Bargains’ CEO, Tom Morris, demanding that he stop complicity in the Israeli apartheid and genocide.
View all participant cities: Aberdeen, Dundee, Galashiels, Hamilton, Edinburgh, Perth

Political Education series: Prisoners of the Struggle
2025-09-11 19:00 - 21:00 | Aberdeen Trades Union Council, 22a Adelphi, ABERDEEN, AB11 5BL, United Kingdom
Join us this evening at 7pm in 22A Adelphi, Aberdeen for the latest in our series of political education workshops, this week on the political prisoners who have been jailed for their support for Palestine.
Incarceration is a daily feature of Palestinian life where approximately one fifth of all Palestinians in Palestine have been imprisoned at some point.
Imprisonment under abject conditions of torture is another weapon of the apartheid occupation.
We will learn what this means for Palestinian solidarity and the struggle, and explore further this through recreating the return of a prisoner.

ABERDEEN: Armed Forces Recruitment Office Demo
2025-09-12 12:30 - 13:30 | Armed Forces Recruitment Office Aberdeen, 63 Belmont Street, Aberdeen, AB10 1JS, United Kingdom
Protest British complicity in Gaza genocide
Join us outside the Armed Forces recruitment office on Belmont Street to protest the RAF’s complicity in the ongoing genocide in Gaza and show solidarity with all victims of imperialism worldwide.

ABERDEEN: Barclays Demo
2025-09-13 11:00 - 13:00 | Barclays Bank ABERDEEN, 163-165 Union Street, Aberdeen, AB11 6SL, United Kingdom
Don’t Bank on Apartheid
This Saturday we will return to Barclays to demand the bank ends its complicity in the Genocide in Gaza, and to ask customers to close their accounts and bank elsewhere.
Barclays Bank is facilitating and profiting from the provision of weapons and technology for Israel’s genocide in Gaza, its militarised occupation, apartheid, repression, and killing of Palestinians.
Barclays now holds over £2 billion in shares of eight of the nine companies whose weapons, components, and military technology have been used in Israel’s unlawful violence against Palestinians. Barclays also provides over £6.1 billion in loans and underwriting to seven of these companies.
We hear that the bank has re-invested in Elbit Systems, the Israeli company that is the primary provider of the Israeli military’s land-based equipment and unmanned aerial vehicles, both of which are wreaking such havoc in Gaza and are responsible for the massacres of over 60,000 people including more than 20,000 children. This just demonstrates that BARCLAYS CARES MORE ABOUT PROFIT THAN HUMANITY.

Fighting Fund Fundraiser: Film screening and food
2025-09-24 18:30 - 21:00 | Aberdeen Quaker Meeting House, 98 Crown Street, Aberdeen, AB11 6HJ, United Kingdom
Fighting Fund Fundraiser: Film screening and food
Join us for a screening of the film “Emwas: Restoring Memories” as we explore the Naksa – the forced displacement of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in 1967, and a key moment in Israel’s settler colonial project.
Food will be served from 6.30pm, with the film starting at 7.00pm, followed by reflections and discussion. Venue: Quaker Meeting House (98 Crown St).
Free entry, but donations very much encouraged as we raise funds for SPSC activists who are facing spurious charges for peaceful protests inside Home Bargains stores in Aberdeen earlier this year. If you can’t make it, but wish to donate, visit: https://scottishpsc.square.site/product/donate-to-spsc-fighting-fund/16

Home Bargains Day of Action - ABERDEEN
2025-09-27 12:00 - 14:00 | ABERDEEN, Aberdeen, United Kingdom
Home Bargains remains complicit in the ongoing genocide as they fund Israeli war crimes through shelving numerous products from occupied territories.
We reject complicity on our Scottish soils and demand Home Bargains to cut ties with the occupying regime – who’s leaders are wanted by the International Court of Justice and International Criminal Court.
We call on all people of conscience to join us at any of these sites to pressure HB to implement BDS.
#FreePalestine #AberdeenForPalestine #Aberdeen #Portlethen #HomeBargains

Stop the Genocide: Discussion with Toufic Haddad
2025-10-16 19:00 | Aberdeen Quaker Meeting House, 98 Crown Street, Aberdeen, AB11 6HJ, United Kingdom
All are welcome to this public meeting :
Stop the Genocide: Reflections on why we must and how we will.
A ceasefire in Gaza is the bare minimum. Let’s discuss how we must engage to achieve an end to 77 years of genocide, occupation and ethnic cleansing in Palestine. With Palestinian academic and author Toufic Haddad.
Read our statement and join the discussion!
https://www.scottishpsc.org.uk/trump-calls-a-halt-to-israels-mass-killing-only-until-he-gets-his-nobel-peace-prize/

Home Bargains Day of Action - ABERDEEN
2025-10-25 12:00 - 14:00 | Berryden Retail Park, Berryden Road, Aberdeen, AB25 3SG, United Kingdom
Join us and demand NO BARGAINS WITH GENOCIDE! Help build the pressure with our Day of Action at Home Bargains. Inform and encourage shoppers to boycott many Israeli-made products and promote our letter to the owner of Home Bargains.
JOIN US:
Saturday 25th Oct, 12-2pm
Berryden Retail Park, AB25 3SG
The Israeli factories which make Dead Sea Products, Pure Baby and various other wet wipes, skin care & cleaning products are operating on illegally occupied land and using vast amounts of water resources which are stolen from Palestinian towns.
Home Bargains continues to stock Israeli goods despite the UN Commission findings that Israel is committing genocide against the people of Palestine. The demand to cease trading with Israel and follow UN guidelines made to the owner of Home Bargains, Tom Morris, by over 1000 customers has so far been ignored. We must increase the pressure!
What can you do now?
– join a Home Bargains action in your area
– ⁠Sign the letter to the owner of Home Bargains
– ⁠join the SPSC

We Will Make Scotland an Apartheid Free Zone
2025-10-31 18:00 - 2025-11-02 18:00 | Stirling Youth Hostel, St John Street, Stirling, FK8 1EA, United Kingdom
SPSC Residential Weekend, Fri 31 Oct – Sun 2 Nov
Following the success of our last residential weekend in February, we are holding a bigger residential weekend this autumn for members of SPSC to gather in Stirling.
This will be a fantastic opportunity to meet, learn and work together with fellow activists from across Scotland, exchanging our ideas.
We will use the space and time provided by the weekend to explore a wide range of questions facing our movement, in order to strengthen our action. This will include questions of theory and strategy, as well as how to develop our technical and organisational skills.
The weekend will run from 6 pm on Friday to 6 pm on Sunday.
Registration is open to all SPSC members – if you are not already a member, join HERE.
REGISTER HERE (Registration in advance is required)
Once registered, you will, in due course, be sent further information and asked to provide information such as dietary requirements.
Cost is £70 per person and includes accommodation and meals from Friday through to Sunday. We don’t want cost to be an obstacle – so we have added a £50 option.
Places are limited, so book early to secure your place!

Political Education series: The role of China in the struggle for Palestinian Liberation
2025-11-06 19:30 - 21:00 | Aberdeen Quaker Meeting House, 98 Crown Street, Aberdeen, AB11 6HJ, United Kingdom
Join us for a talk exploring how one of the world’s major powers has supported the Palestinian struggle for freedom and self-determination over decades. We’ll hear about the past and present, and what the future might hold for their relationship.

Palestine 1936
2025-11-12 19:00 - 20:30 | Webinar, Webinar, United Kingdom
PALESTINE 1936: The murderous role of British “heroes” in crushing the Palestinian struggle
After the British crushed the Palestinian revolt, Montgomery said he was “sorry to leave Palestine…I have enjoyed the war out here.” The British deployed to Palestine methods and personnel from Ireland, where Montgomery had served in what he called “a murder campaign in which…[British] soldiers became very skilful…My own view is that to win a war of that sort, you must be ruthless.”
➡️ Join us for a discussion on how the British in 1936-39 ensured Zionist success in the ethnic cleansing of 1948.
📅 Wednesday 12th November
⏰️ 7 PM
📍 Zoom
📣 Speakers –
Hazem Jamjoum is a Palestinian cultural historian, archivist, and educator based in London.
He is the lead editor at the recently established publishing house Safarjal Press (@safarjalpress). His translation of Ghassan Kanafani’s The Revolution of 1936–1939 in Palestine was published by 1804 Books and won the 2024 Palestine Book Award.
Professor Haim Bresheeth is a filmmaker, photographer, and film studies scholar.
His books include the best-selling Introduction to the Holocaust and An Army Like No Other: How the IDF Made Israel, published by Verso in May 2020. His films include the widely-shown State of Danger (1989, BBC2), London is Burning (2013) and Convivencia at the Turnpike (2015)> Recent films include The Last Honeymoon in Europe (2018) – a feature length documentary, and The Mind of the Occupier, a feature length documentary (2020).
The discussion will be chaired by SPSC co-founder Mick Napier.
REGISTER NOW
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/c-NQmSmHSB-Gt9nM922kFQ

Dana Petroleum: Don't Fuel Israeli Genocide
2025-11-26 12:00 - 16:00 | Dana Petroleum, King's Close 62 Huntly Street, Aberdeen, AB10 1RS, United Kingdom
International Day of Action
Join us on Wednesday 26 November from 12.00 midday.
Dana Petroleum HQ, 62 Huntly Street, Aberdeen, AB10 1RS.
Dana Petroleum is working with the Israeli government to exploit gas in Palestinian waters — a clear violation of international law.
We must stand up against resource theft and oppression.
Together we say: Stop the pillage. Cut ties with apartheid. Stand with Palestine.
Take Action

ABERDEEN: Free Speech on Palestine Lecture
2025-11-30 17:00 - 18:30 | University of Aberdeen, Elphinstone Lawn, High St, Aberdeen, AB24 3EE, United Kingdom
Join us at Aberdeen’s inaugural Free Speech on Palestine Lecture
In late 2024, the University of Aberdeen cancelled an event with Mandla Mandela on campus, based on spurious and unfounded accusations of antisemitism. This was just a small part of a much bigger picture demonstrating that the University was doing all it could to quash voices speaking out against Israeli genocide, apartheid and occupation. This included the targeting and disciplining of staff and students, as well as the Palestine Solidarity Society.
With the planned event cancelled, we went ahead and organised an alternative event outside, on campus, with around 100 people joining to hear Mandela’s empowering message of solidarity and hope.
Scottish PSC, in partnership with the Palestine Solidarity Society, are therefore initiating an annual Free Speech on Palestine lecture, taking place on University grounds. We are delighted to announce that this year’s guest will be Jackie Walker, a long-time activist and writer, who has been targeted for her outspoken campaigning on Palestine, both by the Labour Party and the University of Aberdeen (who cancelled her event in 2017). Please join us to keep up the pressure on the University of Aberdeen, and in making it clear that we will not be silenced in the fight for Palestine’s liberation.

Join online: https://qrco.de/Jackie-Walker

Settler colonialism and genocide: Palestine in context
2026-01-31 10:00 - 17:00 | Augustine Church, George IV Bridge, Edinburgh, EH1 1EL, United Kingdom
Keir Starmer and other UK Government ministers deny that Israel’s mass killing in Gaza meets the legal threshold for genocide – or even that there is a serious risk of genocide. This denial enables the UK to continue selling weapons to Israel and allows the RAF to carry out over 500 surveillance flights over Gaza during the genocide peak, directly assisting the killing below.
The International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS) disagrees with Starmer and Lammy. In December 2023, the IAGS issued a statement declaring that Israel’s actions in Gaza constitute the crime of genocide.
AGS represents the world’s leading academic experts on genocide and mass atrocity crimes. It based its conclusion on intent, scale of killing, destruction of civilian life, and statements by Israeli officials. This is the clearest and most authoritative use of the term “genocide” by an international scholarly body.
The Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign has been campaigning against Israeli genocide long before October 2023. The Scottish Government recently acknowledged the Israeli genocide, following the findings of the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry. As part of that campaigning work, you are invited to a full-day public event on Saturday, 31 January, featuring outstanding speakers.
SPACES ARE LIMITED – REGISTRATION REQUIRED

Mark Levene

Leading member and former executive member of the International Association of Genocide Scholars. He is the author of numerous major scholarly works on genocide, including ‘The Crisis of Genocide’, a multi-volume study comprising ‘Devastation and Annihilation’. He is Emeritus Professor of Comparative History at the University of Southampton. His book ‘The Crisis of Genocide: The European Rimlands, 1912–1953’ received the biennial Lemkin Award from the New York-based Institute for the Study of Genocide in 2015.

Sai Englert

Author of ‘Settler Colonialism: An Introduction’ and teaches at Leiden University in the Netherlands. His work focuses on understanding settler colonialism as a global system and historical process. Englert investigates how settler colonialism continues to shape the global economic and political order through the rapacious accumulation of resources, land, and labour, Indigenous dispossession and genocide, and the development of racism as a form of social control.
SPACES ARE LIMITED – REGISTRATION REQUIRED

Imperialism & Community Resistance: With Speakers Live from West Bank
2026-02-05 19:00 - 21:00 | Augustine, The Ark, Quaker House, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen, United Kingdom
Imperialism in Palestine and Community Resistance
A Talk & Discussion with live link to Wassil Centre in Tulkarem (Simultaneous over 3 venues; Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen)
SPSC and the Young Communist League present a talk and discussion on resistance, with Palestinians living in Tulkarem joining by live link.

Israeli aggression and incursion into Tulkarem, West Bank has intensified since 2023, culminating in invasion in 2024. IDF brutality has escalated while the world’s attention has been on Gaza, resulting in a desperate humanitarian situation.

Infrastructure in the camp is insufficient to deal with the crisis. There is no hospital within or near Tulkarem camp. Volunteers, including doctors, nurses and ordinary residents have established make-shift first aid and rehabilitation rooms with the limited resources they can find. Upon attack, the very first thing the IDF does is destroy these makeshift facilities and the supplies they have gathered.

Palestinians in Tulkarem have not taken these attacks lying down. They have actively resisted Israel’s attempts to displace and ethnically cleanse their homeland.

Join us to hear direct from the West Bank and help fund raise to keep these first aid rooms open and stocked with supplies.

Register Edinburgh

SPSC Aberdeen Branch: Barclays demo
2026-02-21 11:30 - 13:00 | Barclays Bank ABERDEEN, 163-165 Union Street, Aberdeen, AB11 6SL, United Kingdom
Barclays Bank continues to invest heavily in the infrastructure of death and destruction used to deliver Israel’s genocide, occupation and apartheid. This includes Palantir, whose CEO has recently caught up in the Epstein files, a tech company playing a lead role in the Israeli surveillance industry.
Join us from 11.30am to hear from a variety of speakers, as well as a live link up with protests across the country.
Barclays, Barclays, you can’t hide, you are funding genocide!

SPSC Aberdeen: Branch Meeting
2026-02-23 19:30 - 21:00, 2026-03-09 19:30 - 21:00, 2026-03-23 19:30 - 21:00, 2026-04-06 19:30 - 21:00 | ABERDEEN, Aberdeen, United Kingdom
SPSC Aberdeen has been an active branch since 2010, and we’re currently delivering the following campaigns:

Home Bargains (Don’t Buy Into Genocide)
Barclays Bank (Stop Banking on Genocide)
Apartheid Free Zones
Dana Petroleum (Energy Apartheid campaign)

We also organise regular public events and creative engagement activities in the City Centre, as well as exploring outreach and partnerships, including in Aberdeenshire.
We are also looking for more people to get involved, for example in relation to:

events and action organising and participation
fundraising
social media and comms
graphic design
photography and videography
research and writing
poitical education
outreach
creative ideas development and implementation
strategic development
ensuring compliance and accountability of institutions (e.g. Police Scotland, Scottish Government)
wellbeing of activists

For joining details for the branch meeting (generally online), or to arrange a chat about how you could get involved, email aberdeen@scottishpsc.org.uk or find us on Facebook, Instagram or Upscrolled.

Home Bargains Day of Action
2026-02-28 | Aberdeenshire
Join us at locations across Scotland to demand Home Bargains stop stocking Israeli made products!
The International Court of Justice is investigating Israel for genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza. The Genocide Convention does not explicitly exclude corporate liability for complicity in genocide. Corporations can be held liable for aiding, abetting, or contributing to genocidal acts. Companies have a responsibility to cease any activity or cut financial ties that could contribute directly or indirectly to ongoing crimes committed by the Israeli authorities.
Help us build the campaign so that Home Bargains live up to that responsibility and stop stocking Israeli products. Join one of our actions & join the over 1500 people who’ve already signed our letter of complaint to Home Bargains!
Join an action:
Aberdeen – Beach Boulevard Retail Park @ 1pm
Dundee – Stack Retail Park @ 11am
Edinburgh – Meadowbank Retail Park @11am Galashiels – Stirling Road @ 11am
Glasgow – Parkhead Forge @ 1pm
Sign the letter here

ABERDEEN: LAND DAY DEMO
2026-03-28 13:30 - 15:00 | Aberdeen Beach (across from The Range), Aberdeen Beach, Aberdeen, United Kingdom
Join us to commemorate and celebrate Palestinian resistance to theft of their lands with speeches, poetry and arts and crafts.
This year marks 50 years since six Palestinians were killed protesting against occupiers’ theft of their lands in Galilee. This and every year we stand with Palestinians demanding an end to ongoing illegal land theft across historic Palestine and the accompanying destruction of homes and livelihoods.
