Audrey Gray, 77 years old, from West Chitington – retired nurse, social worker, former Ecumenical Accompanier and current Methodist local preacherPippa Bartolotti, 57 years old, Deputy Leader of the Wales Green Party – Pippa was arrested on Friday 8 July after being allowed through passport control and then speaking to press about friends being detained…
Sat 9th July 2011; NO EMBARGO Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign: Media Release DESMOND TUTU CALLS FOR ARMS EMBARGO AS ISRAEL ARRESTS INTERNATIONALS TRAVELLING TO BETHLEHEM Archbishop Desmond Tutu has come out in support of an arms embargo against Israel after authorities there arrested scores of UK and other nationals in Ben Gurion Airport yesterday. The…
Friday 8th July 2011: NO EMBARGO Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign: Media Release UPDATE: MOST INTERNATIONALS SUCCESSFULLY BOARD FLIGHTS TO TEL-AVIV; WARNED TO EXPECT IMMEDIATE DEPORTATION ON ARRIVAL. DESMOND TUTU CALLS FOR ARMS EMBARGO AGAINST ISRAEL UK citizens are amongst those who have managed to board flights to Tel-Aviv despite publicising their intention to visit Bethlehem…
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Thursday 7th July 2011: NO EMBARGO Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign: Media Release ISRAEL’S REACTION TO BETHLEHEM VISIT EXPOSES “WEST BANK BLOCKADE” The reaction by Israeli officials to a plan by Europeans and other internationals to visit Bethlehem tomorrow has exposed Israel’s “West Bank blockade” according to the UK co-ordinator of the initiative. Around 700 European…
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Britain ‘more Israeli than the Israelis’ in plan to deport Palestinian Islamleader Sheikh Raed Salah
The real preachers of hateJonathan Cook: 4 July 2011 “Israel’s legal system, despite its reputation for presuming that Palestinian citizens are habitual security offenders, has found Sheikh Salah guilty neither of anti-Semitism nor of directly helping terrorists. So why is Britain being even ‘more Israeli than the Israelis’, as two Arab members of the…
Agios Nikolaos, Greece – With the support of Greek civil society and people from all around the world the Tahrir is casting off from Greece today. “The Tahrir is leaving port in Crete, and we are breaking through Israel’s Gaza blockade which now extends to Greek ports,” said David Heap from aboard the Tahrir. “Israel’s expansion…