From 6pm, Fri 18th – 12noon, Sun 20th February 2011; New Lanark Youth Hostel Re-thinking Palestine Solidarity – Moving forward during the Arab Revolutions The revolutions in the Arab world are transforming the political landscape across the entire region. For five years SPSC had to fight to win the argument for the centrality of BDS as…
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16 Palestinian refugees from Lajee Center in Aida Camp will be touring the UK for 17 days in June on the 3rd UK Arts And Cultural Tour. The tour will include events from Aberdeen in the north of scotland all the way south to London. events will include Dabka…
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Can Palestinian victims of Israeli mass killings be remembered during British Government Holocaust Memorial Day?Mick Napier, 27 November 2010 Does Mr Stunnell “construe as inflammatory and inappropriate” the attendance of two members of the Board of Trustees of HMDT – Louise Ellman and Harry Grunwald – at a rally in London in support of Israel’s…
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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…