Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign

Campbeltown - In Person Shanshula Film Screening & Webinar
2025-04-24 18:30 - 21:00 (Europe/London) | Campeltown Town Hall, 54 Main Street, Campbeltown, Argyll & Bute, PA28 6AB, United Kingdom
Argyll & Bute branch are hosting an in person community meeting to watch the film Shanshula and to join the online live discussions.
Please come along to the Chambers Room of Campbeltown Town Hall – at 6.30pm.
Free entry and light refreshments – donations are welcomed. Donations to the Sheffield PSC crisis fund, which directly supports the fishing community in Gaza who are featured in the film.
We will have a small selection of t-shirts, books etc for sale, raising funds for the Scottish PSC.

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If you are unable to come along in person, the film and webinar is being shown online – full information can be found here – scottishpsc.org.uk/event/shanshula-webinar/

First Picture Documentary Film Screening Tour
2025-05-06 18:00 - 19:30 | Ardrishaig Village Hall, 43 Chalmers Street, Ardrishaig, Lochgilphead, PA30 8EY, United Kingdom
Screenings and Q&A with director in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Perth, Aberdeen, Forres and Ardrishaig.
Welcome to the FIRST PICTURE DOCUMENTARY FILM SCREENING event.
This is a national tour throughout Scotland with the following dates and locations:

Friday, 18th April @7pm – CCA, Glasgow.
Wednesday, 23rd April @ 7pm – St Augustines, Edinburgh
Thursday, 24th April @ 7pm – ESOL, Perth
Tuesday, 29th April @7pm – Quaker Meeting Hall, Aberdeen
Wednesday, 30th April @ 7pm – The Courtroom, Forres
Tuesday, 6th May @ 6pm – Ardrishaig Village Hall, Ardrishaig

Palestinian Prisoner’s Day is marked each year on the 17th of April, and the situation for prisoners in Israel’s torture jails has never been more urgent, as we see systematic physical, sexual & emotional abuse as well as the rising death toll of detainees, including the first child.
This year, Scottish PSC will screen the documentary ‘First Picture’ (2006) by Akram Al-Ashqar, who is doing his PhD in film at the University of Glasgow, at locations across Scotland. Akram will join us for Q&A sessions following the film.
First Picture (2006) tells the story of a Palestinian child born in one of the Israeli Occupations prisons. He is released without his mother after nearly 3 years in prison. Set in Tulkarm Camp for Palestinian refugees, the film follows this child’s life as he is reunited with the rest of his family and formally imprisoned friends of his mother.
At the time of writing, there are 9500 political prisoners, including 350 child prisoners. Walid Ahmad was one of those children and was killed in March of this year, following 6 months of detention without charge. He was just 17 years old. His body, as is policy of the occupying forces, has been withheld from his family.
Join us as we discuss the film, the current situation for Palestinian prisoners & what we can do in Scotland to build effective solidarity.
Book your ticket here

Argyll & Bute Branch Meeting
2025-05-20 18:00 - 20:00 | MS Centre, Campbell Street, Lochgilphead, PA31 8JU
Join our monthly meeting to discuss local events, actions and solidarity from Argyll and Bute! The meeting will take place in the MS Centre, Campbell Street, Lochgilphead. You can also join us via Zoom: please, email argyllandbute@scottishpsc.org.uk to get the joining link. Everyone welcome!

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

Home Bargains - National Day of Action
2025-07-26 09:00 - 17:00
Join us to continue our No Bargains with Genocide campaign.
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 actions across Scotland to say No Bargains with Genocide!

Locations:
Argyll & Bute: Lochavuillin Industrial Estate, Oban PA34 4BW @ 2pm
Edinburgh: Meadowbank Shopping Park, Moray Park Terrace, Edinburgh EH7 5TS @ 12pm
Perth: Saint Catherine’s Retail Park, St Catherine’s Rd, Perth PH1 5XA @ 10am
Scottish Borders: Stirling St, Galashiels TD1 1BY @ 11am

Use our template letter to write to Home Bargains here:
scottishpsc.org.uk/campaigns/dont-buy-into-genocide/no-bargains-with-genocide/

Argyll & Bute Branch Meeting
2025-07-29 18:00 - 19:30, 2025-08-26 18:00 - 19:30, 2025-09-30 18:00 - 19:30 | MS Centre, Campbell Street, Lochgilphead, PA31 8JU
Come along to branch meeting to get involved in local and national actions and campaigns.
We meet monthly in the MS Centre in Lochgilphead and link in with a Zoom call too. This works well for members who are living all around Argyll and Bute.
We look forward to seeing you there.
Please email argyllandbute@scottishpsc.org.uk to receive the Zoom link

Sign up to become a member here – scottishpsc.org.uk/join/

Isle of Mull - Community Meeting & Demo - Weekly
2025-08-17 18:30 - 19:00, 2025-08-24 18:30 - 19:00, 2025-08-31 18:30 - 19:00, 2025-09-07 18:30 - 19:00 | Tobermory Clock Tower, Main Street, Tobermory, PA756NT, United Kingdom
Solidarity is growing and organising on the Isle of Mull.
Join us every Sunday from 6.30pm at the Tower Clock in Tobermory.
Meet like minded people and gather together to make your voice heard. Show your resistance to UK government complicity in the genocide and enforced famine in Gaza. Bring your pot and a big spoon to make big noise.

Argyll & Bute SPSC welcomes new members and ideas. We are a busy branch, who support each other with activities and actions all around Argyll and in our local towns. We meet online and in person and host regular events.

Dunoon: Eman Alhaj Ali Tour - We Wont be Silenced
2025-08-19 17:45 - 19:30 | Queen’s Hall, 9 Argyll Street, Dunoon, PA23 7HH, United Kingdom
Scottish PSC presents:
Eman Al Haj Ali – We won’t be silenced
A personal story of resisting Israel’s attempts to close down Palestinian voices
In the Argyll Suite, Queen’s Hall, Dunoon – 19th August – come along from 5.45pm, event starts at 6pm
Eman Alhaj Ali is a Palestinian freelance journalist, writer, translator, and storyteller from Gaza and currently based in Ireland. Her writings appeared on a variety of international and local websites, such as the New Arab, the Electronic Intifada, Al Jazeera English, the Nation, Mondoweiss, the Middle East Eye and many others, . She is a member of We Are Not Numbers, and contributed to a variety of books and anthologies, such as “We Were Seeds” and “We Are Not Numbers”.
Join us to hear Eman speak on her recent experiences in Gaza, the deliberate targeting of Palestinian journalists, and how the struggle to share the story of the genocide with the world continues. The talk will be followed by Q&A and discussion.

Please book your ticket here:
Eman Alhaj Ali – Speaker event Eman Alhaj Ali – Speaker event (Dunoon) Tickets, Tue, Aug 19, 2025 at 5:45 PM |

You can register for the online livestream on 19th August at 6pm here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/2W8p09pUQaOw0GJA_4IJOw

We recommend booking in advance as spaces are limited!

Resistance in Rural Scotland
2025-08-30 11:00 - 15:00 | Three Villages Hall, Shore Road, Arrochar, G837AB, United Kingdom
Activism looks different in rural areas.
There are unique contexts, challenges and logistics to consider.
Are you keen to be involved in campaigning but not sure how to go about it in your local area?
Have you felt isolated in your support for the rights of Palestinian people?
Are you part of a group that has stories, experiences or successes to share?
We want to hear about it!
As the UK government and Police Scotland increase their suppression of our rights to protest, we need to be informed and united in our resistance.

Argyll & Bute branch welcome you to the Three Villages Hall in Arrochar, for an afternoon of talks, workshops and networking.
Hear from SPSC members who have recently visited occupied Palestine and will share important messages from the people they met there
Join a workshop from the Scottish Community and Activists Legal Project to ensure that you Know Your Rights
Learn about current campaigns that YOU can share in your local community, or join from home
Network and chat with like minded people

Please arrive for an 11am start.
There is limited car parking at the hall, with on street or paid car parks nearby.
We’ll have a full programme until around 3pm – a light lunch is included in the registration fee of £6pp.
There will be merchandise, t-shirts, books on sale on the day and donations to the SPSC No One Left Behind fighting fund are gratefully received.

Please buy your ticket here : https://square.link/u/kbiWSSBv
Spaces are limited so we recommend booking your ticket in advance – before booking your travel or accommodation.
Please email argyllandbute@scottishpsc.org.uk with any queries, accessibility or dietary needs beforehand so we can do our best to accommodate.

Isle of Mull: Coffee Morning
2025-09-18 10:00 - 12:00 | Aros Hall, Main Street, Tobermory, PA75 6NU, United Kingdom
Come along to Aros Hall, Main Street, Tobermory from 10am.
Tea, coffee, stalls, chats about solidarity & hear from a former peacekeeper who worked in Palestine.
Donations welcomed, please contact the branch if you would like to help out with organising.

Home Bargains Day of Action - ARGYLL AND BUTE
2025-09-27 14:00 | Oban Home Bargains, Lochavuillin industrial Estate, Oban, PA34 4BW, 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 27th Sep, 2pm
Oban, Lochavuillin Industrial Estate, PA34 4BW
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

Home Bargains Day of Action - ARGYLL AND BUTE
2025-10-25 13:00 - 14:00 | Gibraltar Street, Oban, PA34 4HN, 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, 1-2pm
Gibraltar Street, PA34 4HN
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

Argyll & Bute - Branch Meeting
2025-10-28 18:00 - 19:30 | MAYDS, 55a Union Street, Lochgilphead, PA318JS, United Kingdom
New members, volunteers, supporters welcome! Come along and meet with branch members from around Argyll, either in person in Lochgilphead, or online on Zoom.
Hear about national campaigns, local actions and events. Join us to help us grow support for Palestine throughout Argyll.
Email argyllandbute@scottishpsc.org.uk to request the zoom meeting link

Last Tuesday of every month.

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!

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

Fundraiser: Isle of Bute
2025-11-15 19:00 - 22:00 | Isle of Bute Seasports Club, Argyll Street, Rothesay, PA200AZ, United Kingdom
Come along for an evening of live music, food and chats.
Fundraising for SPSC and Oxfam, organised by local campaigners.
Live music from local legends Double Nugget and more, SPSC stall, shop merchandise, share Palestinian food and your thoughts and experiences.
All welcome, please purchase a ticket in advance, limited number available on the door. Tickets and full info here:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/music-night-for-palestine-tickets-1870580981069?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-source=cp&aff=ebdsshcopyurl

Ardentinny - Fundraiser
2025-11-16 16:00 - 18:00 | Ardentinny Outdoor Centre, Near Dunoon, Argyll & Bute, PA23 8TR
Join us for local music, refreshments, Palestinian goods, stalls and speakers.
Sunday 16th November – 4pm til 6pm – Ardentinny Outdoor Centre.

Come along on the day, no need to book.

Mull, Fionnphort and Iona : Candelit Vigil
2025-11-16 18:00 - 19:30 | Tobermory Clock Tower, Main Street, Tobermory, PA756NT, United Kingdom
Join us at Tobermory Clock Tower, Iona Jetty or Fionnphort Pier from 6pm.
In memory of the children and their families killed in Palestine. Please bring a candle or message of solidarity.

Film Screening: Jenin Jenin : Lochgilphead
2025-11-18 18:30 - 20:30 | MAYDS, 55a Union Street, Lochgilphead, PA318JS, United Kingdom
All welcome
Come along the Mid Argyll Youth Development Services – MAYDS – building for 6.30pm to watch the documentary film Jenin Jenin, and stay for tea and discussion after the film.

March 2002: The Israeli troops have marched into the Palestinian refugee camp of Jenin, razing the largest part of the camp to the ground and killing scores of civilians. Israel has been accused of committing war crimes, prompting the United Nations to assign an independent commission to visit the camp. But Israel has forbidden it.

Director Mohammed Bakri visits the demolished camp and interviews survivors of all ages. Jenin, Jenin is dedicated to the memory of Iyad Samudi, the film’s executive producer, who was shot and killed after the production of the film was wrapped.

Long banned by the Israeli Film Board, Mohammad Bakri’s poignant documentary remains a powerful statement on the plight of the Palestinians in their continuous quest for liberation.

Free to attend – donations welcomed, and there will be SPSC merchandise such as t-shirts, books and other wee items for sale.

Argyll & Bute - regional branch meeting
2025-11-25 18:00 - 19:30
The A&B branch is spread over a huge geographical area, so we now meet monthly (online) for a regional meeting. Members from across all of Argyll come together to share our experiences, ideas, campaign actions and support.
New members welcome, we will link you in with your nearest group for in person meetings, events and actions too.
Email argyllandbute@scottishpsc.org.uk for joining link (zoom)

Lochgilphead: Film Screening - 5 Broken Cameras
2026-01-27 18:30 - 20:30 | MAYDS, 55a Union Street, Lochgilphead, PA318JS, United Kingdom
Come along to the MAYDS centre in Lochgilphead to watch the film 5 Broken Cameras, with tea/coffee and discussion about the film and SPSC campaign.
Free entry, donations welcomed.

A documentary film co-directed by Palestinian Emad Burnat and Israeli Guy Davidi, the film is shot entirely by Palestinian farmer Emad Burnat, who bought his first camera in 2005 to record the birth of his youngest son.

Structured around the destruction of Burnat’s cameras, the filmmakers’ collaboration follows one family’s evolution over five years of turmoil.

The film won a 2012 Sundance Film Festival award, it won the Golden Apricot at the 2012 Yerevan International Film Festival, Armenia, for Best Documentary Film, won the 2013 International Emmy Award, and was nominated for a 2013 Academy Award.

Argyll & Bute - regional branch meeting (online)
2026-01-28 18:00 - 19:30

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

SPSC Argyll & Bute - Branch Meeting (online)
2026-04-28 18:00 - 19:15, 2026-05-26 18:00 - 19:15 | Online Event, United Kingdom
Your are welcome to Argyll and Bute branch meetings. We hold monthly meetings online, on zoom. This lets our members and supporters join from wherever they are in Argyll. We are involved in a number of SPSC campaigns and we need more volunteers! Come along and have a chat about our planned actions.
Please contact argyllandbute@scottishpsc.org.uk for the meeting link.
