SPSC Chair and Vice-Chair, Mick Napier and Jan Benvie, accepted an invitation from St. Andrews University Foreign Relations Society to debate with the officials from the UK Israeli Embassy last Wednesday (03 Nov ’10). We had to deal with a farrago of lies (“settlements make up 5.1% of the area of the West Bank”), the…
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The Israeli Histadrut: an apartheid institution (Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign briefing paper for trade unionists) by Mick Napier & Rob Paterson The Israeli pseudo-trade union, the Histadrut, is an active supporter of illegal occupation and dispossession of Palestinians. The Histadrut actively worked to defeat the Palestinian intifada (uprising) for freedom from illegal military occupation. The…
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Palestinians call on all people of conscience Come visit Palestine this Christmas Palestinian civil society organizations and peace and human rights defenders and activists on the ground call on civil society organizations and people of conscience around the world to come to Palestine between December 22-28 for a week of fellowship and actions centered around…
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Uproar at Tel Hai College: Nakba marked on calendar By Tomer Velmer, YNET News, 20th October 2010 The outraged students returned their student cards as an act of protest and said, “It cannot be that in a community which symbolizes Zionism the symbols of Israel’s enemies are sanctified.” Students return identity cards after finding out…
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Why the Jewish National Fund plants forests in Israel Letters page, The Guardian, Wednesday 20 October 2010 This is not sustainable development but colonial expansion at the expense of the indigenous populaton. If diplomats are virtuous men sent abroad to lie for their country (Henry Wotton), what is Samuel Hayek of the Jewish National Fund’s…
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Dutch police raided the offices of a company leasing cranes for building the West Bank Separation Fence and settlements Gush Shalom Press Release 19 October 2010 16:51 intl@mailman.gush-shalom.org Dutch police raided the offices of a company leasing cranes for building the West Bank Separation Fence and settlements. Company executives, including the Israeli Doron Livnat, may…
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