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.
How very strange of this Sheriff, obviously didn’t have time to do his homework.
Mick Napier is neither a racist nor an antisemite not in public or in private. Something very wrong with the system
Glasgow friends of Israel are an absolute cancer of society here in Glasgow . They are the real antisemitic racists who spread hate and misinformation about the ongoing genocide in Gaza. I have seen them target women and vulnerable people in the street as they walk past their hate stall. When will GCC put an end to this madness. It’s not antisemitic to be anti Zionist.
Shameful and disgusting. But then again. What would you expect from the UK government. The principle organisation of world colonialism.
I wish all well in the NY struggle for justice in Palestine. From london fresh from Pentonville prison protest for the demands of the Hunger Strikers