Embargo: Tuesday 22nd Feb 2011 Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign: Media Release ISRAELI ECONOMIST ON UK SPEAKING TOUR PROMOTES ISRAEL BOYCOTT An Israeli economist and author who argues for boycott and sanctions against his own country is set to speak in Edinburgh on Thursday. Shir Hever, author of ‘The Political Economy of Israel’s Occupation’, is speaking…
From: Edinburgh University Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP). (Report of protest here) The Edinburgh University Politics society has invited Ron Prosor, Israel’s ambassador to the UK, to speak on Monday 21st February at 5pm. The talk will be held in the McEwan Hall on Bristo Square. Assemble at Bristo Square (Map) at 4pm. Bring…
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An Amos Trust film about the strangling and imprisonment of the little town of Bethlehem and its neighbour, Hebron, by Israel’s apartheid wall, and the impact on the local Christian & Muslim communities. “Gives a very powerful testimony – you can hear the gasps when they see the Wall in Bethlehem” – Dr Stephen Leah, Methodist…
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The Political Economy of Israel’s Occupation Shir Hever, Economic researcher for Palestinian-Israeli Alternative Information Center St Andrews University, Parliament Hall, South Street 5pm Monday 21 February
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8 March in Edinburgh, @ 7pmEdinburgh UniversityAppleton Tower, Lecture Theatre 3 (Map)Edinburgh University Students for Justice in Palestine & Scottish PSC Edinburgh9 March in Glasgow, @ 7.30pmSTUC, 333 Woodlands Road, Glasgow, G3 6NGScottish PSC Glasgow Rafeef Ziadah, Palestinian refugee, spoken word artist and activist.- Rafeef is on the international coordinating committee of Israeli Apartheid Week.- Speaking…
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Glasgow University law professor Adam Tomkins plans joint work with Israeli ‘judicial designer, enabler and backer of regime of human rights abuses Mick NapierEdinburgh 7th February 2010 Barak…justified shooting at civilian populations; legalized land confiscations, home demolitions and other forms of collective punishment; approved administrative detentions (imprisonment without trial), the Apartheid wall…and torture…his last verdict…