June 04, 2020
in State terror
by Mick Napier
The United States, Democrats and Republicans, are responsible for funding, arming and supporting the Israeli state. Indeed American Police forces send their officers over to Israel for ‘training’. As Azadeh Shahshahani, Ilise Benshushan Cohen write U.S.…
May 29, 2020
in Statements
by Sofiah MacLeod
Scottish PSC Statement The Palestinian Nakba, ‘catastrophe’, is commemorated and marked as a day of resistance every year on the 15 May. Sandra White, Scottish National Party (SNP) MSP, submitted a motion to the Scottish Parliament to mark 72 years since 15…
May 27, 2020
in The right
by Mick Napier
In response to a motion in the name of Sandra White (72nd Anniversary of the Nakba) that acknowledges the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people, Richard Lyle MSP has moved an amendment that peddles discredited Nakba denial revisionist history to conclude…
May 24, 2020
in Statements
Scottish PSC Statement Richard Lyle is an Scottish National Party MSP and Deputy Convenor of the 'Building Bridges with Israel', an Israel lobby group that includes Israel's Honorary Consul in Scotland, the Confederation of Friends of Israel Scotland and…
May 18, 2020
in Resistance
.....who was mourned by millions and hated by the Zionistsby Tony Greenstein6th May 2020When Marek Edelman, Commander of the Warsaw Ghetto Resistance died in 2009, Moshe Arens, Likud’s former Foreign Minister wrote that: ‘He had received Poland's highest…
May 10, 2020
in Complicit companies
Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign have been campaiging through Time to Divest for divestment from Israeli Bank Hapolaim for several years. Billy Briggs reports on the corruption scandal engulfing the Bank today in a story carried by both The National and…
May 06, 2020
in A refugee people
Nakba Day - May 15th - commemorates the catastrophe ('Nakba') of the Palestinian people being ethnically cleansed, driven by planned massacres, from their homes and till this day denied the right to return to their own properties in their own homeland.You are…
Mar 20, 2020
in The left
Thanks only to the Coronavirus lockdown, Glasgow is spared the obscene spectacle today of supporters of Israeli Apartheid marching past Mandela Place within a column of committed anti-racists. SUTR insists COFIS will be allowed to participate when they march…
Mar 16, 2020
in Gaza
The reckless US and UK cold war policy to support Al Qaeda against the pro-Soviet regime in Afghanistan led to blow back that still endangers us all. US sanctions on Iran, backed up by threats to anyone trading with that country, have weakened their health…
Mar 04, 2020
in The left
3 March 2020 - SACC As organisations opposed to all forms of racism, we regret that we are unable to support the march organised in Glasgow by Stand Up to Racism to mark the UN's International Day Against Racial Discrimination ("Anti-Racism Day")[1]. We are…
Feb 29, 2020
in RtBDS
Letter to the Editor, The National, 29 February 2020 (HTML links added)"Another excellent article from David Pratt. (Modi is moving India away from Gandhi's vision) The UK government may not exhibit the politics of hate to its full extent; but it is seeking…
Feb 26, 2020
in Solutions
Sir Vincent Fean seems to have recently become the dominant public face and voice of the Balfour Project. The ex-diplomat is in a position where he could publicise the crimes of the Israeli Government and support human rights and freedom for the Palestinian…
Jan 16, 2020
in Holocaust exploitation
"The middle-class population in toto has continued to adhere to the ideology of anti-Semitism and rejoices at the Nazi solution to the Jewish problem in Poland...Polish workers had long before the war grasped the class aspect of anti-Semitism, the power-tool…
Dec 18, 2019
in Tories and New Labour
A man who is so loathed that he cannot appear in public in the UK has viciously attacked Jeremy Corbyn. Speaking from an undisclosed "location in Central London" and widely reported by the mainstream media, Blair joins in with his acolytes such as Margaret…
Oct 31, 2019
in Statements
31 October 2019 I called one of the organisers of a conference in Chester last night (Wednesday 6pm) to tell him I was withdrawing from the event after Gilad Atzmon was added late to the list of speakers. On Monday, I had posted on Facebook the images I…
Oct 17, 2019
in Campaigning
Israel announced that it intended to "restrict these online activists’ circle of influence..so activists think their message is reaching others when in fact it is being contained", according to Elad Ratson of Israel’s Foreign Ministry at a cybersecurity forum…
Oct 03, 2019
in Complicity
"Yet, when SPSC members first campaigned against the Glasgow surveillance system and pointed out its provenance in Israeli military Unit 8200, a council press spokesperson claimed the activists were "anti-Jewish". We have seen how baseless accusations of…
Sep 23, 2019
in 'Anti-Semitism'
Latuff is a cartoonist who calls out the crimes of the State of Israel and its apologists everywhere. His cartoons are sharp and clear and make perfect sense. Sadly, Jeremy Corbyn's Twitter feed has attacked one of Latuff's cartoons as "antisemitic" for…
Sep 16, 2019
in Trade unions
Andrew Ross is speaking at meetings across Scotland on his latest book, Stone Men: the Palestinians who Built Israel. The main content of Stone Men comes from interviews with Palestinian building workers across Palestine/Israel, in the reporting and analysis…
Jul 30, 2019
in Scottish Councils
Protest Israeli Surveillance System in GlasgowSaturday 3rd August 1pmGeorge Square at City Chambers Resistance to both police use of automatic facial recognition generally and Israeli spyware specifically is growing. Scotland seems to be experiencing a…
Jun 29, 2019
in From Jews
The Zionist-led Scottish Council of Jewish Communities has made a submission to the Scottish Government's recently concluded consultation on external affairs. It is a rather mechanical recycling of familiar pro-Israel tropes, throwing around accusations of…
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
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 for BDS: Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions. Sunday 5th…
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…
