Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign

Scottish National Demonstration: RESIST IMPERIALISM & REPRESSION
2026-01-17 13:00 - 16:00 (Europe/London) | Johnston Terrace, Edinburgh, EH1 2PR, United Kingdom
NATIONAL DEMO in EDINBURGH
ALL OUT FOR PALESTINE
ALL OUT AGAINST IMPERIALISM
ALL OUT AGAINST REPRESSION
SATURDAY 17TH JANUARY
1 PM
ASSEMBLE: Johnston Terrace, EH1 2PR – for march to Scottish Parliament.
As genocide continues and war escalates so does repression of Palestine solidarity and opposition to genocide, colonialism and warmongering.
We will not be silenced! We continue our fight for justice and liberation ✊🏽🇵🇸 ✊🏻
MOBILISE across Scotland for the first national demo of 2026.

Resistance & Solidarity from Scotland to Palestine
2026-01-17 19:00 - 21:00 | Augustine Church, George IV Bridge, Edinburgh, EH1 1EL, United Kingdom
Friends of Al Aqsa and SPSC are hosting activist and satirist Tadhg Hickey for a discussion on Palestinian resistance and our solidarity work at home.
Attempts to repress Palestine solidarity have always included the weaponisation of language. Activists in the UK are being arrested for use of the phrase “globalise the intifada” – but what does this phrase really mean in terms of the solidarity work we do, and why should we resist attempts to criminalise it? Join the discussion! https://events.humanitix.com/edinburgh-resistance-solidarity-scotland-palestin
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SPSC Glasgow Branch Members Meeting
2026-01-19 19:00 - 21:00, 2026-02-02 19:00 - 21:00 | The Ark, 70 Coplaw Street, Glasgow, G42 7JG, United Kingdom
Join our meeting to discuss local events, actions and solidarity in the Glasgow area.
This meeting is for members and will take place at The Ark, if you are not yet a member you are welcome to come along, find out more about our campaigns and join up.
Our normal meeting schedule for 2026, is every second Monday.

Edinburgh Barclays Protest
2026-01-21 10:30 - 12:30, 2026-01-24 10:30 - 12:30, 2026-01-28 10:30 - 12:30, 2026-01-31 10:30 - 12:30, 2026-02-04 10:30 - 12:30, 2026-02-07 10:30 - 12:30 | Barclays Bank Edinburgh, 10-15 Princes St, Edinburgh, EH2 2AN
Protest Barclay’s complicity and profiting from genocide
Barclays is bankrolling Israel’s genocide against 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza.
A report published in 2024 detailed Barclay’s financial ties to companies producing weapons and military technology used in Israel’s attacks on Palestinians.
In addition, Barclays has an agreement with Israel to act as a ‘primary dealer’ for its government bonds. This means it helps Israel directly to raise money to fund its genocide and apartheid against Palestinians.
The Palestinian BDS National Committee is calling on concerned people to boycott all Barclays services as well as for all financial institutions to divest from Barclays until the bank ends its grave complicity in Israel’s attacks on Palestinians,
Join us for our bi-weekly (Wed & Sat) demonstrations at Barclays Bank on Princes Street (next to Apple store).

SPSC Edinburgh Branch: Members Meeting
2026-01-21 19:00 - 21:00, 2026-02-04 19:00 - 21:00 | Augustine Church, George IV Bridge, Edinburgh, EH1 1EL, United Kingdom
Join our meeting to discuss local events, actions and solidarity in the Edinburgh area.
This meeting is for members and will take place at Augustine United Church, if you are not yet a member you are welcome to come along, find out more about our campaigns and join up.
Note our normal meeting schedule is the first and third Wednesday of each month.

Edinburgh: Armed Forces Recruitment Office Demo
2026-01-22 11:00 - 13:00, 2026-01-29 11:00 - 13:00, 2026-02-05 11:00 - 13:00 | Armed Forces Careers Office, 67 Shandwick Place, Edinburgh, EH2 4SD, United Kingdom
Join us outside the Recruitment Office at the West End.
The RAF has aided the Zionist regime in it’s genocide by conducting surveillance flights over Gaza to gather intelligence on behalf of the occupation forces.
Whilst the British army continues joint training with the Israeli military.
We will be leafleting the public, spreading awareness of the active participation of the UK military in the genocide.

Glasgow: Forces Recruitment Office Demo
2026-01-23 11:00 - 14:00, 2026-01-30 11:00 - 14:00, 2026-02-06 11:00 - 14:00 | Armed Forces Careers Office Glasgow, 82 Queen Street, Glasgow, G1 3DN, United Kingdom
Join us every Friday to protest the complicity of the UK Armed Forces in the genocide of Palestinians.
From 11.00 – 14.00 at the Armed Forces Careers Office, Charlotte House, 82 Queen Street, Glasgow G1 3DN.
The RAF has flown hundreds of surveillance flights over Gaza from the Akrotiri base in Cyprus.
They hand this footage over to the occupation forces.
Not in our name.
Not in our city.
We will be leafleting the public, spreading awareness of the active participation of the UK military in the genocide.

Glasgow Barclays Protest
2026-01-24 09:30 - 13:00, 2026-01-31 09:30 - 13:00, 2026-02-07 09:30 - 13:00 | Barclays Bank – Argyle Street, Glasgow, 83 Argyle Street, Glasgow, G5 8DP, United Kingdom
Protest Barclay’s complicity and profiting from genocide
Barclays is bankrolling Israel’s genocide against 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza.
A report published in 2024 detailed Barclay’s financial ties to companies producing weapons and military technology used in Israel’s attacks on Palestinians.
In addition, Barclays has an agreement with Israel to act as a ‘primary dealer’ for its government bonds. This means it helps Israel directly to raise money to fund its genocide and apartheid against Palestinians.
The Palestinian BDS National Committee is calling on concerned people to boycott all Barclays services as well as for all financial institutions to divest from Barclays until the bank ends its grave complicity in Israel’s attacks on Palestinians,
Join us for our weekly demonstration at Barclays Bank on Argyle Street.

Edinburgh Vigil: Health Workers 4 Palestine
2026-01-24 12:00 - 13:00 | Foot of the Mound, Princes St, Edinburgh, EH2 2EL, United Kingdom
Health Workers 4 Palestine Edinburgh Vigil at the Foot of the Mound.
On Saturday 24th of January at 12pm, health workers will again gather for a vigil at the Foot of the Mound.
It has been well over 2 years of genocide and we will not stop, we will continue to raise our voices and stand in solidarity with the health workers being targeted in Gaza.
We must use our voices to speak up for all those being silenced.
From the river to the sea Palestine will be FREE ✊🇵🇸

This event is not organised by SPSC Edinburgh, but members & supporters will attend and show support.

SPSC Edinburgh: Introduction to SPSC Meeting
2026-01-26 19:00 - 20:30 | Augustine Church, George IV Bridge, Edinburgh, EH1 1EL, United Kingdom
OPEN TO ALL Members –
An opportunity for you as a new member of SPSC to find out what we stand for, our approach to campaigning, and learn about our key campaigns and how you can get involved.
Maybe you’ve been a member for a long time, but are looking to get more involved, come along!
Experienced activist? Come along and share your knowledge.
Registration in advance is encouraged but not essential.
To attend, please register here
We plan to hold one of these meetings each month going forward – on 4th Monday of each month.

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.

Panel Discussion
2026-01-28 17:00 - 19:00 | Bellfield Portobello, 16B Bellfield Street, Portobello, Edinburgh, EH15 2BP, United Kingdom
Panel discussion on the Palestine movement in Scotland & Britain
Including SPSC speaker.
The discussion will focus on:
• An update on the current situation in Palestine
• International solidarity
• The growing repression facing the Palestine movement in Britain and Scotland
One of the international guests is Anna Liedtke, a representative of Zora (an anti-capitalist women’s organisation in Germany).
Anna sailed with the Freedom Flotilla to Palestine and was captured by Israeli forces, spending a week in Israeli prisons, she was sexually assaulted during her detention.

Argyll & Bute - regional branch meeting (online)
2026-01-28 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)

Remembering Hind Rajab: Edinburgh Vigil
2026-01-29 18:00 - 18:30 | Foot of the Mound, Princes St, Edinburgh, EH2 2EL, United Kingdom
Candlelight Vigil for Hind Rajab
We invite you to join us for a candlelight vigil in memory of Hind Rajab, held on the second anniversary of her death.
Hind was only five years old when she was murdered by Israeli occupation forces.
Trapped in a car and pleading for help. She was shot at over 355 times.
This vigil will honour her life and the memory of all other Palestinian children killed in the ongoing genocide.
The vigil will take place on Thursday, January 29, from 6.00pm at the Foot of The Mound.
During the vigil, we will hold a candle lighting ceremony, and observe a moment of silence for remembrance and reflection.

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
