Jun 27, 2019
in The BBC
On the BBC Today programme this morning, Justin Webb introduces a piece (1:52 in) on the “horror” among many Labour MPs at the Party reinstating left-wing MP Chris Williamson, accused of alleged anti-semitism. Lord Charles Falconer is then allowed to dismiss…
Jun 21, 2019
in Resources
Forthcoming (Sundays at 4pm): Ibtisam Barakat 8th September A series of interviews with individuals who have something valuable to contribute to the goal of building effective solidarity with the Palestinian people, above all promoting the call from Palestine…
Jun 18, 2019
in A refugee people
The Scottish Refugee Council’s decision to partner with the Scottish Council of Jewish Communities, which actively co-operates with and supports the Israeli Government, does all refugees a disservice THE Scottish Refugee Council’s statement of vision and aims…
Jun 15, 2019
in The opposition
During a short speech at the annual Al Quds Day demonstration in London in solidarity with the Palestinian people, I observed that the Israeli Embassy arranges workshops around the UK to organise the fightback against the BDS campaign, against supporters of…
May 29, 2019
in Get involved
protestGlasgow City ChambersSaturday June 29th at 12 noon Jeff Halper is the Israeli author of the acclaimed War against the People (Pluto Press), an authority on the use and mis-use of Israeli arms and surveillance technology. In this 3-minute video, the…
May 07, 2019
in Friends of Israel
Tomorrow at 10am in the Royal Society of Edinburgh building at 22-26 George Street, Glasgow lawyer Matthew Berlow will continue the work of the pro-Israel crowd, including his group, Glasgow Friends of Israel, to smear those who defend Palestinian rights and…
May 06, 2019
in Gaza
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 deliberately killing…
Apr 26, 2019
in Resistance
Full details of the broadcasts here: http://www.scottishpsc.org.uk/coming-events Join the interactive broadcast Sundays 4pm here:https://www.facebook.com/scottishpsc Sunday 31st March Abdurrahman Abu Nahel, Gaza coordinator of the Palestinian BDS National…
Apr 01, 2019
in JNF-KKL
(THIS ARTICLE WILL BE EXPANDED DAILY UNTIL SATURDAY) Palestinian Kholoud Ajjarmi from Aida Refugee Camp, Bethlehem (twinned officially with Glasgow), will speak on her family story, their violent dispossession and expulsion by Zionist Jewish militias in 1948,…
Mar 28, 2019
in Free Speech on Palestine
The Scottish First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, is the keynote speaker at an event in Glasgow on Saturday; "Question Time - Challenging Racism & Islamophobia With The First Minister". According to publicity for the event, "This exclusive event will facilitate…
Mar 26, 2019
in Arab regimes
These images are from the Algerian capital last Friday. The popular struggle against the corrupt old regime is building and the regime is retreating. Palestinian flags are always raised on the mass demonstrations in Algiers and across the country Israel has…
Mar 25, 2019
in Mass killings
called by Palestine Alliance Saturday 30th March 2pm Assemble Foot of Mound, Princes Street Equality, Freedom & Justice for Palestinians UN investigators have reported that Israeli snipers "have intentionally shot children, they’ve intentionally shot people…
Mar 19, 2019
in Mass killings
John Byrne, a frequent poster to Glasgow Friends of Israel Facebook discussions, shared his approval before the bodies of the victims were cold. Given the nature of the discussions on that site, e.g approving the "euthanising" of Palestinians, Byrne must have…
Mar 15, 2019
in Mass killings
The Christchurch massacre of scores of Muslims joins the Pittsburgh Synagogue massacre as the work of White supremacists pumped up by Trump's Islamophobia and xenophobia. Here in Britain Boris Johnson and others know how to dog whistle their Islamophobia to…
Mar 03, 2019
in The left
We publish below some of the letters sent to key players in Stand Up To Racism - Scotland.Appeal for you to write a letter (pls share) We have a bad situation here in Scotland - an anti-racist campaigning group, Stand Up To Racism, will not oppose an extreme…
Mar 02, 2019
in Corporate
Dear Palestine supporter Please read and send the March email to your Councillors regarding your local authority pension fund investments that facilitate Israel's crimes against the Palestinian people. We are already making a difference. You can join in and…
Feb 27, 2019
in Zionism
Stand Up To Racism Scotland have created the conditions where COFIS, an extreme racist campaigning organisation, is publicly mobilising for the anti-racist march on March 16th, confident in the knowledge that the organisers will hold their noses and that…
Feb 07, 2019
in Corporate
"Israel's strategy involves "dirty tricks" against its clear opponents; on the other hand "In defending Israel, new strategy calls for embracing critics...as a counter to the hardcore" BDS campaigners. Thus the Friends of Israel seemingly successful effort to…
Feb 05, 2019
in Rise and rise of the fascist right
GFI and SUTR Dear SUTR Last year Glasgow Friends of Israel (GFI) and Confederation of Friends of Israel Scotland (COFIS) joined the Stand Up To Racism organised march in Glasgow. This demonstrates incredible audacity considering their sole purpose is to…
Feb 05, 2019
in Friends of Israel
"To be crystal clear: the objection from SPSC and many others is not to the presence of any individuals in an anti-racist march - it is to the acceptance of banners and flags celebrating the genocidal violence of the Israeli state. While SUTR will undoubtedly…
Jan 29, 2019
in The extreme right
Sammy Stein is a man who frolics in excrement and then flicks a speck of dirt off his nose. He works on behalf of the Israeli Embassy to defend Israeli mass murder, torture, sexual abuse of Palestinian women and children and every manner of Israeli crime.…
Jan 20, 2019
in From anti-Semites
How can a degenerate group such as COFIS be endorsed by Nicola Sturgeon and a Scottish Labour Party leader? Support for the ongoing massacre of Palestinians - the shooting dead of 200 British citizens or Israeli Jews would qualify as a massacre - has not been…
Jan 16, 2019
in On campus
"If the university continues down this route of trying to impose extensive surveillance and to control free speech on Palestine there will be a very public campaign to defend our rights. Widespread public opinion is in solidarity with Palestine - and that…
Dec 28, 2018
in Middle East
Solidarity should be repaid to those who provide it without any thought for themselves. Standing up for justice here in the UK involves no significant risk or cost - but it is a different matter for Palestinians. And for their supporters living under harsh…
Dec 04, 2018
in Churches
Like their Muslim neighbours, Christians in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip are denied basic religious freedoms. They are routinely prohibited from traveling very short distances to worship in one of the most holy sites in Christianity — the Church of the…
