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
Forthcoming (Sundays at 4pm): 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…
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…
