The opinions of Ana Moura’s audience last night at her Glasgow performance were clear, “Don’t perform in Israel – support the appeal from Palestinian civil society for a cultural boycott of Israel.” From the first member of the audience we spoke to, who had appeared with friends and took extra leaflets to distribute inside, only…
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A letter from the JNF (Jewish National Fund) to MPs reveals “concern” at the potential of EDM 1677 to “tarnish the work of the JNF”and asks for a private meeting with each signatory of EDM 1677 currently before the UK Parliament. Jewish opponents are smeared as linked to Nazis and others as advocates of child…
Continue Reading CEO Goodman smears opponents in letter to MPs who stand against racist JNF
“Zionist flag – the flag that has come to symbolise intolerance, hatred, racism and brutality” “So those people who want to associate themselves with Israel, Zionism and drape themselves in the Zionist flag – the flag that has come to symbolise intolerance, hatred, racism and brutality – they can feel free to do so.” “But,…
What a difference a year makes! We salute those who stood up for Palestine over many years, while everything got worse and hope was scarce. That is now in the past: Israeli crimes continue, US/UK/EU complicity is ongoing, but Arab dictators are toppling, and the world-wide BDS movement worries Israel greatly. Scottish PSC played its…
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Letter to the New York Times: New Palestine Party Visit of Menachem Begin and Aims of Political Movement Discussed (1948) To the Editors of the New York Times: Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our times is the emergence in the newly created state of Israel of the “Freedom Party” (Tnuat Haherut), a political…
On Israel and Bombing by Bertrand Russell (1970) “The tragedy of the people of Palestine is that their country was “given” by a foreign Power to another people for the creation of a new State. The result was that many hundreds of thousands of innocent people were made permanently homeless. With every new conflict their number…
Continue Reading What they said about Israel & Palestine – Betrand Russel