According to the front page headline in the Scotsman of Saturday 8 August 2015, Hilary Clinton weighed into Edinburgh film festival row, the court-mandated publication of her emails from 2009 reveal that the US Secretary of State worked from Washington to mobilise support against an SPSC boycott initiative, while Hollywood film makers were being asked…
Across the whole range of Palestine solidarity groups and networks in the UK, none could write or appear even once in White supremacist newspapers or social media; it is unthinkable. Any association with any brand of extreme right, racist formations would disgust and repel all those who currently give us active and passive support. It…
Continue Reading Letter from SPSC to US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation
The Palestinians are poor. They are powerless. They have no voice or influence in the halls of power. They are demonized. They do not have well-heeled lobbyists doling out campaign contributions and pushing through pro-Palestinian legislation. No presidential candidate is appealing to donors—as Hillary Clinton did when she sent a letter to media mogul Haim…
Continue Reading Pulitzer prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges: “Why I support BDS”
The template was the settlement of Ulster centuries earlier in Britain’s oldest colony. The colonial power granted privileges to colonists who naturally incurred the hatred of the local people by their seizure of resources and racist arrogance towards the natives; as with settler-colonialism in Ulster so the same dynamic was set in motion with the…
Continue Reading The BDS campaign, occupation, apartheid and settler colonialism
Should Israeli soldiers be able to brutalise Palestinian sports team members with impunity and then travel the world un-protested? The pro-Israeli gang, as usual, seek to prohibit peaceful protest against the sporting ambassadors of the Apartheid State, who are here to whitewash ethnic cleansing and mass murder. Mick Napier22 July 2015Lacrosse is not a sport…
Continue Reading How Israeli lacrosse pushes an ethnic supremacy agenda
For Immediate Release 22 July 2015 Human rights campaigners are planning protests at Israel’s participation in the FIL Rathbones Women’s 2015 U19 Lacrosse World Championship that starts tomorrow in Edinburgh at the Peffermill sports centre. Campaigners are responding to the Palestinian call for a campaign of boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel in…