Campaigners welcome STUC statement on solidarity with Palestinian workers Media Release, 1 May 2017 [Pictured right: Ryvka Barnard of War on Want speaking at joint War on Want, Unison Scotland & Scottish PSC fringe meeting STUC 2017 – with Sam Macartney, Chair of Unison Scotland International Committee & Fiona Napier, Chair of SPSC Aberdeen.] Campaigners…
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By Leon Rosselson In the current furore over supposed antisemitism in the Labour Party and the suspension of Ken Livingstone for asserting that Hitler supported Zionism, the crux of the problem seems to have been somewhat obscured. Livingstone’s intervention was untimely, uncalled for and clumsily expressed (it’s never a good idea to bring Hitler into…
Even before the latest UN-commissioned and UN-suppressed report on Israel, an Israeli journalist has nailed aspects of current Israeli society that led Israeli Army Deputy Chief of Staff Yair Golan to identify trends in current Israel society reminiscent of Nazi Germany in the 1930s. Maj. Gen. Golan made the observations while speaking at a Holocaust…
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Last month’s Al Jazeera exposé The Lobby revealed the length supporters of Israel are going to in their attempts to suppress free speech on Palestine and BDS (the Palestinian-led movement calling for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions against Israel) – an international effort coordinated by the Israeli government. Now details are surfacing of how groups in…
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Support free speech on Palestine – outside Methodist Church, Nicolson Square Monday 27th March 7pm Jackie Walker – Palestine, Free Speech & Israel’s ‘Black Ops’ If we’re banned from speaking inside, from now on we’ll speak on the pavement outside 12noon onwards in same place– publicity stall “In the End, we will remember not the…
Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign15 March 2017BREAKING: New UN Report Israeli Practices towards the Palestinian People and the Question of Apartheid – an evaluation of Israel’s practices against the 1973 International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid and other key human rights laws Richard Falk, co-author of this UN report starts…
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