Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign

First Picture Documentary Film Screening Tour
2025-04-30 19:00 - 20:30 (Europe/London) | The Forres Tollbooth, The Courtroom, 80 High Street, Forres, IV36 1NX, 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

First Picture Documentary Film Screening Tour
2025-04-29 19:00 - 20:30 | Aberdeen Quaker Meeting House, 98 Crown Street, Aberdeen, AB11 6HJ, 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 Courthroom, 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

Lanarkshire Branch Meeting
2025-04-29 18:30 - 20:00 | The Villa Hotel, 49-51 Burnbank Road, Hamilton, ML3 9AQ, United Kingdom

Hamilton Supermarket Protest
2025-04-27 13:00 - 15:00, 2025-04-13 13:00 - 15:00 | Sainsbury’s Hamilton, 5 Douglas Park Lane, Hamilton, ML3 0DF, United Kingdom

Viva Palestina Fundraiser – Edinburgh
2025-04-26 19:30 - 21:30 | St Peter’s Church Hall, Lutton Place, Edinburgh, EH8 9PE, United Kingdom
CinemaAttic is proud to collaborate with the Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign to present a short film night in aid of two fantastic organisations. With films ranging from drama and documentary to fantasy and romance, this event celebrates the diversity of Palestinian cinema while drawing attention to the brutality of the Israeli occupation and its effects on the Palestinian people.
The ticket profits from this event will be split equally between the Amplify Gaza Community Resilience Projects Fund @amplify_gaza and Plant a Tree in Palestine @plantatreeinpalestine , two organisations whose work remains more vital than ever in the face of the ongoing genocide.
GLASGOW
📅 24th April, 7.30pm (screening starts at 8pm)
📍 CCA Glasgow
EDINBURGH
📅 26th April, 7.30pm (screening starts at 8pm)
📍 St Peter’s Church Hall, Edinburgh
To raise extra funds, we will also be hosting a raffle at our Edinburgh event, so come prepared to buy tickets and be in with a change of winning some great prizes! Thanks to our prizegivers: @hadeel_palcrafts @takeoneaction @lighthousebks @scottish_psc @falastinfilmfest @lilayogaedinburgh
Please contact us if you’re interested in donating a raffle prize!
We will also have Colombian street food at our Edinburgh event provided by our friends at @saboral_toque 🌮🌮
Tickets available here: https://cinemaattic.com/event/viva-palestina-fundraiser-edinburgh/

Workers Memorial Ceremony - Edinburgh
2025-04-26 12:30 | West Princes Street Gardens, Edinburgh, EH2 2HG, United Kingdom
Edinburgh International Workers’ Memorial Day ceremony takes place at the Memorial Tree in West Princes Street Gardens.
A wreath will be laid in memory of the thousands of Palestinian workers murdered by Israel
International Workers’ Memorial Day is the day we remember workers across the world who have paid the ultimate price in their workplaces.
This may be as a result of health and safety negligence, or in the case of Palestinian workers, the deliberate targeting and slaughter of those doing their jobs.
Come along and help us to “Remember the Dead and Fight for the Living”
The memorial tree is adjacent to the lower path, at the Mound end of the Gardens.

Cairde na Héireann's Easter Rising Commemoration
2025-04-26 11:30 | Shuttle Street G1 1QA, Shuttle Street, Glasgow, G1 1QA, United Kingdom
“(a) loyal Jewish Ulster in a sea of potentially hostile Arabism”
-Herbert Samuel (1st British Governor of Palestine & UK Home Secretary during 1916)
The Palestinian and Irish struggles for liberation from occupation are irrefutably linked, not just ideologically but politically. Many of the key figures in the creation of the Zionist neocolonial project of Israel had also played prominent roles in the occupation and subjugation of Ireland, such as Arthur James Balfour, Herbert Samuel, and Henry Hugh Tudor, to name a few.
The legacy of the Easter Rising not only dominated 20th-century Ireland, but its effects are still felt today. The British Government’s decision to employ the internment policy, which saw thousands of Irish republicans arrested and imprisoned without trial, set in motion a chain of events that ultimately led to the Irish War of Independence and the partition of Ireland.
A partition which would result in a decades-long war, the barbaric treatment of Irish political prisoners, wrongful convictions, the dehumanisation of Irish people and the loss of hundreds of civilian lives. All the while, the British-backed Zionist state of Israel employed the same tactics on Palestinians.
Join the Scottish PSC in the Palestine Bloc on Saturday, 26 April, as part of Cairde na Héireann’s Easter Rising Commemoration March through Glasgow. Stay for the rally afterwards, where we will hear from Irish activists and SPSC Co-Founder Mick Napier.

Edinburgh Supermarkets Protest
2025-04-26 11:00 - 13:00 | Sainsbury’s Quartermile Local, Middle Meadow Walk, 29-30 Simpson Loan, Edinburgh, EH3 9GG, United Kingdom

Scottish Borders Time to Divest Launch
2025-04-25 10:30 | Scottish Borders Council HQ, Newtown St Boswells, Melrose, TD6 0SA, United Kingdom
This Friday (25), we will launch our Time to Divest Campaign at Scottish Borders Council HQ by delivering our first letter to the Pension Fund. Join us!

Shanshula - Webinar
2025-04-24 19:30 - 21:30 | https://www.scottishpsc.org.uk/event/shanshula-webinar/
The Scottish PSC and friends warmly invite you to join an online discussion with Musheir el Farra, producer of the film Shanshula.

In February of this year, the film toured Scotland and Ireland to honour World Social Justice Day. During the screenings, we were fortunate to be joined by a spokesperson from the fishing community in Gaza depicted in the film via video call.

Now, several weeks later, we invite you to join us again for this webinar. In addition to discussing the film, we’ll also be hearing updates from Musheir and hopefully from the spokesperson in Gaza.

Join the online webinar by following the link to register on Zoom. Once successfully registered, you will receive an email with a link to watch Shanshula online and a link to the live online discussion on Thursday, 24th April at 7:30 pm.

We welcome you to invite your friends, family and community to meet in person to watch the film and join the webinar together! Please note spaces for the live discussion are limited, so please register in advance to avoid disappointment.

Viva Palestina Fundraiser – Glasgow
2025-04-24 19:30 - 21:30 | CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
CinemaAttic is proud to collaborate with the Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign to present a short film night in aid of two fantastic organisations. With films ranging from drama and documentary to fantasy and romance, this event celebrates the diversity of Palestinian cinema while drawing attention to the brutality of the Israeli occupation and its effects on the Palestinian people.
The ticket profits from this event will be split equally between the Amplify Gaza Community Resilience Projects Fund @amplify_gaza and Plant a Tree in Palestine @plantatreeinpalestine , two organisations whose work remains more vital than ever in the face of the ongoing genocide.
GLASGOW
📅 24th April, 7.30pm (screening starts at 8pm)
📍 CCA Glasgow
EDINBURGH
📅 26th April, 7.30pm (screening starts at 8pm)
📍 St Peter’s Church Hall, Edinburgh
To raise extra funds, we will also be hosting a raffle at our Edinburgh event, so come prepared to buy tickets and be in with a change of winning some great prizes! Thanks to our prizegivers: @hadeel_palcrafts @takeoneaction @lighthousebks @scottish_psc @falastinfilmfest @lilayogaedinburgh
Please contact us if you’re interested in donating a raffle prize!
We will also have Colombian street food at our Edinburgh event provided by our friends at @saboral_toque 🌮🌮
Tickets available here: https://cinemaattic.com/event/viva-palestina-fundraiser-glasgow/

Speaking Up & Speaking Out
2025-04-24 19:00 - 20:30 | The Ark, 70 Coplaw Street, Glasgow, G42 7JG, United Kingdom
Workshop on Public speaking
Advocating for Palestinian liberation and against Israeli genocide. SPSC Members Mick Napier and Lizzie Elridge are experienced public speakers keen to share their insights.
REGISTER: https://bit.ly/speakingupworkshop

First Picture Documentary Film Screening Tour
2025-04-24 19:00 - 20:30 | ESOLPERTH, 6 Scott Street, Perth, PH1 5EJ, United Kingdom

Campbeltown - In Person Shanshula Film Screening & Webinar
2025-04-24 18:30 - 21:00 | 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
2025-04-23 19:00 - 20:30 | Augustine Church, George IV Bridge, Edinburgh, EH1 1EL, United Kingdom

Don’t Buy Into Genocide
2025-04-20 13:00 - 15:00 | Sainsbury’s Hamilton, 5 Douglas Park Lane, Hamilton, ML3 0DF, United Kingdom

Protest SPORTSWASHING in Aberdeen!
2025-04-20 12:00 | Aberdeen Indoor Bowling Club, Summerhill Road, ABERDEEN, AB15 6EE, United Kingdom
No sportswashing in Scotland!
JOIN US on Sunday 20th April to protest the sportswashing of Israeli genocide by World Bowls and Aberdeen Indoor Bowling Club as they welcome Israeli bowler Boaz Markus. Meet at 12pm at the entrance to Aberdeen Indoor Bowling Club, Summerhill Rd, AB15 6EE.
SIGN the call to World Bowls to immediately withdraw its invitation to Israeli player Boaz Markus, set to compete in the Scottish Indoor Bowling International Open on April 20th to 25th at the Aberdeen Indoor Bowling Centre – sign the call.

National demo
2025-04-19 12:30 - 15:30 | Glasgow Green, Saltmarket, Glasgow, G1 5JZ, United Kingdom
Israel has now been given a clear green light by Trump to complete the annihilation of Gaza. Nothing is off-limits. Netanyahu has wilfully wrecked the ceasefire, bombing and slaughtering thousands more to protect his own political back. The regime is now on its final, merciless rampage, its leaders openly calling for the emptying of Gaza, another genocidal war crime.
Rulings and warnings on the genocide by the ICJ and UN, alongside all major legal and human rights bodies, are being treated with utter contempt. The regime is openly murdering any Palestinian in its genocidal way, as with the horror execution of 15 Red Crescent ambulance crew and first responders. Brazen bombing of hospitals and mass torture of prisoners continues, in violation of all basic rules of war. International law is being openly trashed.
Western protection of the regime’s leaders and their crimes is shamefully ongoing, with Netanyahu given cover to fly across the EU without his ICC arrest warrant being invoked. Pogroms, ethnic cleansing and gathering annexation in the West Bank is also being met with cowardly words and handwringing inaction. The regime is acting with total impunity.
Trump, Starmer and most EU leaders are not just complicit but party to Gaza’s apocalypse. Swinney and the Scottish Government are also deeply implicated by continuing to fund the arms companies supplying weaponry for the genocide, and still refusing to even call it a genocide.
The squirming silence of our leaders is matched only by the craven exonerations of the BBC and other Western media. The callous executions and calculated massacre of the 15 ambulance crew and first responders was disgracefully headlined by the BBC as “a mistake”. British state media is an active party to the genocide, mitigating, normalising and hushing Israel’s crimes.
March to demand an end to the SILENCE AND COMPLIANCE!
SHOUT OUT TO SAVE GAZA BEFORE IT’S TOO LATE!
📅 Saturday 19 April
🕧 Gather, 12.30pm, March, 1pm
📍 Glasgow Green, McLennan Arch

Fundraiser for Fighting Fund
2025-04-18 20:00 - 23:00 | Blue Lamp, 121 Gallowgate, ABERDEEN, AB25 1BU, United Kingdom
Join us for an evening of music and poetry, raising funds for SPSC’s Fighting Fund.
The growing repression of Palestine solidarity activism in Scotland is a testament to the power of our movement. Despite arrests, intimidation, and smear campaigns, we continue to mobilise. SPSC’s Fighting Fund is raising money to help cover the legal costs of those being targeted by police forces deploying aggressive and unjustifiable tactics to suppress solidarity actions with Palestine.
Read more: https://www.scottishpsc.org.uk/police-suppression-of-palestine-solidarity-a-threat-to-our-democratic-rights/

First Picture Documentary Film Screening Tour
2025-04-18 19:00 - 20:30 | CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom

Time to Divest Edinburgh meeting
2025-04-17 19:00 - 20:30 | Augustine Church, George IV Bridge, Edinburgh, EH1 1EL, United Kingdom
Time to Divest campaign: this Thursday 17th, 7 pm, at Augustine Church (Mull room) and grab some of our ✨new updated flyers✨ to share around 🇵🇸
We’ll be planning for the next few months and discussing the organising committee elections happening on the 1st of May. Come along to hear about the existing roles and get involved with our plans for upcoming outreach 💪

SPSC Edinburgh Branch Meeting
2025-04-16 19:00 - 21:00 | Augustine Church, George IV Bridge, Edinburgh, EH1 1EL, United Kingdom

SPSC Glasgow Branch meeting
2025-04-15 19:00 - 21:00 | The Ark, 70 Coplaw Street, Glasgow, G42 7JG, United Kingdom

SPSC Lanarkshire Branch meeting
2025-04-15 18:30 - 20:00 | The Villa Hotel, 49-51 Burnbank Road, Hamilton, ML3 9AQ, United Kingdom
Get involved in branch – all welcome to come along and find out about our campaigns and find out what you can do for Palestine.

Film screening: The World Against Apartheid
2025-04-14 18:30 - 21:00 | Aberdeen Trades Union Council, 22a Adelphi, ABERDEEN, AB11 5BL, United Kingdom
Join us for a film night and discussion – The World Against Apartheid – on April 14th
We’ll explore the power of the sporting boycott against South Africa’s apartheid regime and how international solidarity helped bring it down. The screening will be followed by a panel discussion and a banner/placard-making session.
In the lead-up to the protest against an Israeli representative at the World Bowls Indoor Championships in Aberdeen (April 20), we draw inspiration from history. Just as sports were used to isolate apartheid South Africa, today we respond to the Palestinian call to boycott Israel until it ends its illegal occupation.
NOTE: The venue for the event is the Aberdeen Trades Union Council. The building can be accessed via 2 entrances: The Adelphi which is just off Union Street, and Shiprow;
– To access via Adelphi: from Union Street, walk down Adelphi to near the bottom of the street, go through the tunnel on the left, and down the steps, then turn around to your right for ATUC.
– To access via Shiprow: there is a vehicle entrance to the immediate right of the Maritime Museum. Once you reach the car park, ATUC is on your left, to the left of the steps.

SPSC Scottish Borders Branch meeting
2025-04-14 18:00 - 19:30 | St James’ Church, High Street, Innerleithen, EH44 6HD, United Kingdom

Palestine Demo
2025-04-12 14:00 - 16:00 | Dundee City Square, City Square, Dundee, DD1 3BA, United Kingdom
Protest in Dundee city centre.

Home Bargains protest
2025-04-12 11:00 - 13:00 | Home Bargains Aberdeen – Beach Boulevard, Beach Boulevard Retail Park, ABERDEEN, AB11 5EJ, United Kingdom
Don’t Buy Into Genocide
Join us this Saturday outside Home Bargains at Beach Boulevard Retail Park!

As Israel commits new massacres across Gaza and violence increases for Palestinians living in the West Bank, we must continue to speak out against the complicity in our supermarkets! Boycotting is a fundamental aspect of fighting against Israeli apartheid and genocidal regime and everyone has the power to do it!

Edinburgh Supermarkets Protest
2025-04-12 11:00 - 13:00 | Sainsbury’s Local Middle Meadow Walk, 29-30 Simpson Loan, Edinburgh, EH3 9GG, United Kingdom
Join SPSC Edinburgh for our weekly stall protesting the sale of Israeli goods and produce in our supermarkets. Together we can support the Palestinian call for BDS by educating the public & supermarket staff on the power and importance of boycotting.
