It is time to intensify our actions against genocide!
CALL FOR SUPPORT: Edinburgh Sheriff Court, TUE 22 July at 10am
SPSC founding member and spokesperson, Mick Napier, was arrested under anti-terrorism legislation on 21 July and will appear in court on Tuesday. Please attend to support!
Other arrests were made on 21 July and we will update with further information when we have them.
Watch video of arrest here
Last Saturday thousands of people gathered in Edinburgh to express their outrage at Israel’s continuing genocide of the Palestinian people, and importantly their disgust at the ongoing complicity of our governments.
The daily news from Gaza tells of the brutality of the Zionist regime, of bombings, killing of people seeking aid, and deliberate starvation of Palestinian women, children and men. Israel keeps none of this secret, and last week they discussed the construction of concentration camps for Palestinians.
In the Occupied West Bank, settlers and military continue their rampage, destruction, violence and murder of Palestinians. In Israel, mobs are attacking Palestinian workers chanting ‘Death to Arabs’.
Starmer’s government is actively participating in the genocide, at the same time trying their best to repress the solidarity movement here at home. Swinney’s government is not much better, refusing to openly call for sanctions against Israel while arranging secret meetings with Israeli government officials.
Over the last 22 months, SPSC has seen our members arrested, harassed, and charged. Lately, our bank account has been frozen. But the repression was always going to come, and it is even more acute now because Israel is failing and civil society is organised and getting results! Artists are speaking out like never before and organising themselves; dockworkers are refusing to handle goods and arms for Israel; orders for Israeli goods are cut; soldiers attending concerts are being arrested for war crimes.
While our strategies and tactics may change, now is not the time to falter – it is time for action! It is time for us to intensify the pressure on our governments and complicit companies!
We stand against the genocide and the racist state of Israel. We stand with the Palestinians in their struggle for freedom, equality and justice!
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An outrage indeed – an Independent Scotland would NOT have such a crime on the statute book. Obliged to by Starmer’s rightwing Israeli supporting government to which every Labour Voter in Scotland should be ashamed to have elected.