Scottish Palestine Solidarity Conference Palestine in the Context of the Drive to Permanent War Sat 29 & Sun 30 January 2011Venue: St Georges West Centre, Shandwick Place, Edinburgh The Zionist ethnic cleansing of Palestine is proceeding to the hum of bulldozers, the roar of tanks and F-16s and the economic, political and military support of the…
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“An Affront to Truth and Justice”: Occupation, Not Dissent A Response to Rabbi Warren Goldstein by Rifat Odeh KassisNovember 2010 I marvel at the use of your phrase “equal before the law,” a statement both audacious and false. Since obtaining citizenship, the Palestinian population in Israel has been systematically dealt with as second-class citizens, facing…
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In 1963, the CIA-backed coup that deposed the populist, left-leaning government of Brigadier General Abdul Karim Qassim, and eventually brought Saddam’s Baath party to power, seems like it just happened yesterday. During the bloody hijack, lists of progressive activists were provided to Baathist henchmen by the US to be murdered in campuses and other public…
We are so used to the BBC’s well-documented bias towards the Israeli version of events in Israel/Palestine that it is surprising to hear BBC Radio 4 report a sliver – less than four minutes – of the brutal mayhem Israeli settlers are visiting on the heads of the Palestinians of the Israeli-occupied West…
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The Israeli war against Palestinian society does not spare education; rather, Zionist leaders have always been alert to the dangers posed to their project by a Palestinian leadership with access to education. The struggle of Palestinians to sustain and build their educational institutions in the face of brutal occupation is a story of determination and…
Embargo: Tuesday 16th Nov 2010 Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign: Media Release TOP LAW FIRM ADVISES COUNCIL TO DUMP ISRAEL OCCUPATION FIRM A top law firm has advised Edinburgh Council leaders not to contract a firm involved in Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestine. Daniel Machover of Hickman & Rose solicitors warned the Council that employing Veolia…
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