“Israel is for the White Man” – Note to refugees from South SudanRichard Sudan in the Independent 22 June 2012 “Note to refugees from South Sudan: Israel is for the white man.” These were the astonishing words uttered by Israel’s interior minister Eli Yishai in an interview recently in which he outlined the Israeli government’s…
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When Zionist youth leaders “travelled to India to help run a residential summer camp, they were invited to meet with the Dalai Lama, where they received his blessing for the project,” reported Haaretz.One Zionist youith leader “stayed to volunteer at a new, Israeli-initiated museum which documents the tragedies of the Tibetan people.” In 2001 a…
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Embargo: Thursday 21st June 2012 Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign: Media Release SCOTS PARLIAMENT URGED TO END GRANT TO CONTROVERSIAL ISRAEL FIRM A Palestinian human rights group launched a campaign today [Thursday 21 June 2012] to get MSPs’ support to end a £200,000 Scottish Enterprise grant to the UK branch of a controversial Israeli water cooler…
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According to the Herald on Sunday, “It wasn’t much fun being an Israeli footballer at Tynecastle yesterday. Lashed by the rain, barracked by pro-Palestinian demonstrators – and seven goals down at half-time…against a noisy backdrop of protests about the imprisonment of Palestinian footballers. The Israeli national anthem was jeered, and the players booed…the demonstrators’ chants…
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Sunday 17th June 2012: NO EMBARGO Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign: Media Release ISRAEL “RUBBISH WITHOUT GUNS”, SAY PROTESTORS Israel’s national football team had to endure a barrage of pro-Palestinian chanting throughout their 8-0 defeat by Scotland in the Women’s Euro qualifier at Tynecastle on Saturday, in a protest aimed at highlighting the plight of what…
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Embargo: Friday 15th June 2012 Scottish PalestineSolidarity Campaign: Media Release PROTESTS SET FOR TOMORROW’S SCOTLAND v ISRAEL EURO QUALIFIER Campaigners are set to protest the Scotland v Israel Women’s Euros Qualifier at Edinburgh’s Tynecastle Stadium tomorrow (Sat16th June) after “urgent” calls from FIFA president, Sepp Blatter,that Israeli authorities end their “alleged illegal detention of Palestine football…
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