Scotland’s First Minister Alex Salmond, speaking on the BBC’s Question Time in Glasgow, 25th March 2010, has called for a review of trading relationships with Israel: “you can’t have normal relationships if you believe another country has been involved in what Israel has been involved in”. A transcript of the relevant section is below: Questioner:…
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Thursday 22 April 2010 Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign, Media Release STUC REAFFIRMS ISRAEL BOYCOTT The Scottish Trades Union Congress reiterated its commitment to a campaign of boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel at its annual meeting in Dundee yesterday, just days after a BBC poll described international attitudes to the country as “widely negative”.…
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The Scottish Parliament’s Public Petition Committee met on 20th April to consider the SPSC petition to cancel the propaganda exercise by the Scottish Friends of Israel: The exhibition of “Israel’s Contribution to Medicine, Science and Technology” Watch the committee’s blistering attack on Israel and this propaganda exercise The relevant section starts at 02:01:06 watch…
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WCC protests over new Israeli army order Posted: Wednesday, April 21, 2010pm; Original article Rev Dr Olav Fykse Tveit, The general secretary of the World Council of Churches (WCC), Rev Dr Olav Fykse Tveit, has expressed dismay at a new Israeli military order that will categorize tens of thousands of Palestinians living in the West…
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Defense Minister: Israel needs to recognize the occupation must end By News Agencies 19/04/2010; Original article: Haaretz Israel must recognize that the world will not put up with decades more of Israeli rule over the Palestinian people, Defense Minister Ehud Barak said in unusually frank remarks Monday. Barak’s comments came against the backdrop of severe…
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Nothing, it seems, can clean up the Israeli brand worldwide Israel remains near the bottom of the world rankings, despite massively favourable press coverage in Western and Western-controlled international media. Neither does Western governments’ political, economic and diplomatic support for Israel seem able to convince their populations that Israel is clean. Even in Germany, where…
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