By Mick Napier17 October 2012 “Sefton is in reality a complete fraud in claiming to support artistic freedom; he has not a single word to say about Israel’s violent suppressions of Palestinian artistic initiatives. While he condemns those who protest in support of Palestinian human rights, a proposal as to how we should try to…
By Lenni Brenner Every major American daily newspaper ran an obituary upon the June 30 death of Yitzhak Shamir, Israel’s 7th Prime Minister, 1983-84 and 1986-92. Many said something critical about him, but none fully dealt with the most disgraceful period of his career. He was passionately for a Zionist alliance with Hitler in 1940-41.…
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Marion Woolfson, Honorary President of the Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign, died on Saturday evening, some months after a stroke from which she never fully recovered. Increasingly infirm over the last two years, Marion was bitterly frustrated by her increasing inability to contribute to the struggle against Zionist smears and slanders against the Palestinian people and…
Continue Reading In Memoriam: Marion Woolfson 11/02/1923 – 29/09/2012
The Don’t Dance with Israeli Apartheid Coalition is calling for demonstrations against Brand Israel asset, Batsheva Dance Company, when they perform across the UK. The Batsheva tour starts in Edinburgh on October 30th and ends in Plymouth on November 24th. If you will be joining in either or both of the Edinburgh protests, or you’d…
By Amir Oren, Haaretz – 20 Sept 2012Israel expressed its strong opposition on Wednesday to an Arab initiative, supported by the Obama administration, to hold a conference that would debate the possibility of a nuclear-free Middle East. The conference would take place in Helsinki toward the end of 2012, or early in 2013. Brig.Gen. (Res.)…
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Boycott campaigners turned the empty Zionist slogan “Culture unites, Boycotts Divide” totally on its head in Edinburgh last weekend, drawing some of Scotland’s best known cultural figures, many theatre–goers and Ohad Naharin, artistic director of Israel’s world-renowned Batsheva dance company, into public dialogue about its role as a state-funded “cultural ambassador.” In an unprecedented encounter…
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