More than 500 pro-Palestinian demonstrators at the Port of Oakland try to delay arrival of Israeli cargo ship. By Haaretz Service Hundreds of pro-Palestinian protesters picketed at the Port of Oakland, in California, on Sunday hoping to delay an Israeli cargo ship from docking, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. Police estimated that more than 500…
Palestinian Trade Union Movement Calls on International Dockworkers Unions to Block Loading/Offloading Israeli Ships until Israel Complies Fully with International Law and Ends its Illegal Siege of Gaza June 7, 2010- The Palestinian trade union movement, as a key constituent member of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee (BNC) calls on dockworkers’ unions worldwide…
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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’.…