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Batsheva performance cancelled in Brighton due to protest preparations

Protests against Israeli crimes are spreading, including against Brand Israel assets such as Batsheva Dance Company. Brighton Palestine campaigners have scored a breakthrough before the protests re-start: one of the two Brighton performances has been cancelled as a direct result of the protest preparations. So – once again – it’s hats off to Brighton! And…

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Israel steps up racist programme of demolishing Palestinian homes

UNRWA: Israel becoming ‘more efficient’ at displacing Palestinians JERUSALEM (Ma‘an) 11 Oct — Israeli demolitions affected 990 Palestinians in the West Bank in September, showing that Israeli authorities “are becoming more efficient,” UNRWA spokesman Chris Gunness said. The latest report from the UN agency for Palestinian refugees shows a dramatic rise in the number of…

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Ignorant Zionist academic Denis MacEoin attacks Edinburgh students

“MacEoin’s special claim to unique ignorance of Israel and Palestine, however, is clinched by his insistence that “Under Israeli law, Arab Israelis have exactly the same rights as Jews or anyone else; Muslims have the same rights as Jews or Christians.” He seems not be aware of the startling fact that the para-statal JNF (Jewish…

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Those who accuse the UCU of anti-Semitism have a record of reckless accusations

Ephraim Borowski and SCoJeC’s dishonesty “It is indicative of the dishonesty of SCoJeC officers involved in this affair, the lengths they will travel to smear opponents, that the allegation of anti-Semitism, utterly without foundation, was surreptitiously inserted into this publicly subsidised publication only after Scottish Government officers had checked and agreed to support the volume.…

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2011 Sep 27: PALESTINE CAMPAIGNER WRONGFULLY ARRESTED AWAITS POLICE APOLOGY

Tuesday 27th September 2011 Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign: Media Release PALESTINE CAMPAIGNER WRONGFULLY ARRESTED AWAITS POLICE APOLOGY A 64 year-old university lecturer who was wrongfully arrested and injured by police after taking part in a pro-Palestine publicity stunt said he is “disappointed” in the “dishonest” reaction of Lothian & Borders Police to last week’s ruling…

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