Israeli genocide cheerleaders secure conviction against lifelong anti-racist and Palestine solidarity organiser

SPSC Statement, 23 December 2025

In Glasgow's Sheriff Court today, Sheriff John McCormick handed down a shocking verdict, finding SPSC founding member Mick Napier guilty of racism for verbally calling out the leader of Glasgow Friends of Israel.

The same sheriff jailed five activists last August for trying to interdict the supply of arms from Thales in Govan to the genocidal Israeli military.

The pro-Israel group whose leader made the complaint of racism on which the police, prosecutors and sheriff acted,

• described Palestinians murdered by Israel as "euthanised"
• welcomed the 2019 mass murder of 51 Muslims in New Zealand as "payback for what they have done around the world"
• discussed how a Muslim lawyer, who supported Palestine, "should be strangled with her own scarf"
• called two anti-Zionist rabbis "disgusting Jews"

The complainer, Sammy Stein, joined a recent anti-asylum seeker, pro-genocide demonstration organised by Tommy Robinson supporters in Glasgow and worked with a well-known fascist, antisemite and holocaust denier to harass Palestine supporters.

An appeal against conviction and the £600 fine has been lodged.

SPSC will continue our work to expose Glasgow Friends of Israel, including Sammy Stein, as the genocide deniers and cheerleaders that they are. They work in collaboration with Israeli government officials to target SPSC, our members and partners, because the international Palestine solidarity movement to boycott and isolate Israel is growing and making an impact.

It is critical that we continue to organise and build the movement in Scotland - if you are not already an SPSC member, you can join here.

You can also support our Fighting Fund appeal here - to be effective, we must also defend our rights.

Our fight continues. Look out for notices about hunger striker and wider court support.