“It is in the settlements of Mitzpe Shalem and Kalia that Ahava mines and manufactures cosmetics from mud extracted from the occupied Dead Sea area. The company’s annual revenue is $142 million, and 40 per cent of its products are sold worldwide, including in Australia, Britain and the United States. “Israel’s practices in the occupied…
Banking on Apartheid One Saturday afternoon in Edinburgh’s main shopping street, a group of unmasked, unarmed, mainly female singers drifted with nonchalant daring into the main banking hall of Barclays, and unleashed a volley of harmonised lyrics. The prevention of terror has come to mean rapid response armed police units, besuited and politically briefed “experts”…
This trip is an opportunity to visit Palestine to learn more about the reality Palestinians face every day, in order to provide effective solidarity back in Scotland. The project will include collective preparation and research prior to the visit, as well as the production of materials and presentations following the visit. SPSC has organised a…
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Wolf Hall, Peter Kosminsky’s 2011 mini-series starring Claire Foy, is currently airing on BBC television to rave reviews. Zionists must fear that Kosminsky’s and Foy’s high profile will lead many to their magnificent 4-part Channel 4 drama, The Promise, a unique British TV telling of the story of the Palestinians and the Zionist colonisers, as…
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“It is noteworthy, and unhelpful, that while many Muslim leaders quickly condemned Al Qaeda’s Paris savagery, they find no public echo from the bulk of Jewish political leaders condemning the mass killings, the organised immiseration of Gaza, and ongoing dispossession of Palestinians from their land.” Mick Napier15 January 2015 When political leaders march, or pretend…
Q.1 What is the name of the boy in this iconic image from 2000 (shot dead days later by an Israeli sniper)?Faris Odeh Q.2 A Scottish politician’s father made an annual homage to Israel; the son later expressed to the Israeli Knesset his admiration for Menachem Begin, the organiser of the Deir Yasin massacre. Who…
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