13-15 August, Glen Prosen youth hostel / camping in Scottish highlands contact campaign@scottishpsc.org.uk for more information and to register ‘Ideas for a Successful Palestine Solidarity Campaign’ Provisional timetable: Friday 7.00pm Israel & Palestine – introductory discussion What is Israel? A settler colonial state? Apartheid? Something worse?…
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Report of EventTuesday 22 June 2010, Bonnyton Golf Club, nr Glasgow Twenty five protestors watched empty fairways for much of the time yesterday at the annual JNF pro-am golf fundraiser at Bonnyton Golf Club, near Glasgow. Numbers participating in the JNF fundraiser were substantially down on previous years, thirty two teams participating this year compared…
Dundee Sun 27 June, 11am to 4pm Dundee Uni, Tower Building, Room T9 Questions and issues for discussion will include: Intro to Israel/Palestine ** Israel: occupation, colonisation & apartheid** Western government complicity ** The wider Middle East ** Resistance & Solidarity ** Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions: Aims ** Effective Solidarity Registration £3/£5- REGISTER
Article in the Guardian, Scottish antisemitism row is divisive The row reported in the Guardian is highly significant. The row it refers to is linked to the long-term campaigning work of the Scottish PSC, and successfully dealing with the Zionist counter-attack, which predictably was nothing more than a consciously fabricated series of accusations of ‘anti-Semitism’.…
Livni claims: Israel can save itself from global isolation By Mazal Mualem, Haaretz June 7, 2010 “Israel is facing a difficult time right now, perhaps the most difficult in our history,” Livni said. “This is not just a temporary event that will pass. This is a continuous process under which Israel is becoming isolated from…
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Israel forced to apologise for YouTube spoof of Gaza flotilla + admits to editing footage of earlier broadcasts. The Israeli government has been forced to apologise for circulating a spoof video mocking activists aboard the Gaza flotilla, nine of who were shot dead by Israeli forces last week. Last week, the Israel Defence Force had to…