Embargo: Friday Aug 19th 2011. Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign: Media Release JEWISH GROUP DEFENDS ISRAEL CRITICS A leading member of a Jewish pressure group is set to defend two students facing racially aggravated conduct charges after allegedly making comments and gestures critical of Israel and its flag. Liz Elkind of Scottish Jews for a Just…
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The above headline appeared in the Scotsman on Tuesday, above an article on the performances by Israeli State-financed Batsheva Dance Company, who work within the Brand Israel project of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs. To underline the role of such events in whitewashing the Apartheid State, the Jewish Chronicle reports that an Israeli Government…
Continue Reading Festival chief Jonathan Mills warns protesters ‘stay away from Israeli dancers’
Join this year’s annual Al Quds Day Demonstration UK on Sunday 21 August 2011. IHRC’s annual Al Quds Day Demonstration, a march in support of the Palestinian people and their rights will take place this year on Sunday 21st August from Portland Place (assemble near BBC Radio) at 2pm to Trafalgar Square. This rally is…
Don’t Dance with Israeli Apartheid presents visuals, audio, video, singing, and readings on:”Israel’s Culture of Apartheid, Victimhood, Mass Murder, Illegality, Impunity, Racism, Ethnic Cleansing, Colonialism & more”World ‘Culture Summit’ in Edinburgh Mon 13th & Tues 14th August40 or more Ministers of Culture from around the world are meeting in Edinburgh,Scottish Parliament 12noon – 5pm Monday &…
Settler Colonialism and the State of Exception: The Example of Palestine / Israel David Lloyd, University of Southern California”This paper argues that these apparent contradictions…can best be explained by understanding Israel’s occupation of Palestine as an exemplary settler colonial project whose contradictions are embedded in the early framing of Zionism and whose unfolding follows a…
Unions Against Israel – Port WorkersDaily summary of the Hebrew media Mon 25 July 2011by Shahar Ginosar in Yedioth Ahronoth 22 July 2011A few weeks ago a closed meeting was held on this matter that was attended by Israel’s business elite, and the warning calls that it issued were unusual. Danny Gillerman, formerly Israeli’s ambassador…
Continue Reading Israeli fears of serious damage from trade union boycotts