Scottish First Minister, Alex Salmond, told a meeting this week of the Jewish Educational Forum that opposition to the State of Israel has nothing to do with anti-Semitism and he criticised those who would link the entire Scotland Jewish community with that State. “I don’t think we should accept as a community that your position…
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Nuclear Offer to Apartheid Regime Blows Diplomatic Cover Israel’s Nukes Out of the Shadows By Jonathan Cook Mordechai Vanunu, a technician at the Dimona nuclear energy plant in the Negev, provided photographic evidence and detailed descriptions of the country’s weapons programme in 1986. Today the Israeli arsenal is estimated at more than 200 warheads. Israel…
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Boycotting Israel has meant that Elvis will now play three extra gigs including Gateshead, Dublin, and the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall on July 2nd, which can be booked from the venue directly here. Scottish PSC will be there in force to Thank Elvis for not Entertaining Apartheid! More info on Elvis’ principled stance and other…
Standing firm against Apartheid last century and this one! Elvis Costello has cancelled his scheduled gigs in Israel on explicity human rights grounds: Read the statement on his website Please thank Elvis via his manager:gilmour@mfmgt.com Feel free to use or adapt these flyers to leaflet his upcoming gigs to make his fans aware of the stance…
Israeli Ambassador, Ron Prosor, will be given a platform in Holy Trinity Church, St Andrews on Tuesday 4 May to make the case for Israel’s crimes. PROTEST: Assemble Holy Trinity Church, South Street, St Andrews at 5pm (map) Join Palestine solidarity stalls in St Andrews from 12noon on Tuesday 4th May – South Street. see…
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Criminalising solidarity; ‘racism’ case thrown out1st May 2010 A legal attempt to stifle solidarity action with Palestine through boycott fails in Edinburgh Sheriff Court. Five members of the Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign were accused of “racism” after disrupting a concert by Israel’s cultural ambassadors, the Jerusalem Quartet. Sheriff James Scott ruled the protest was “clearly…
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