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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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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