For immediate release. Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign: Media Release SALMOND: TRADE RELATIONS WITH ISRAEL CAN’T BE “NORMAL” AFTER MOSSAD PASSPORT FORGERIES Scotland’s First Minister has called for a review of the UK’s trading relationships with Israel, after it emerged that Israel’s Mossad had forged British passports for use in the assassination of a…
Holyrood slated over Israeli exhibition The Scotsman 24 March 2010 Original article: http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/Holyrood-slated-over-Israeli-exhibition.6175052.jp THE Scottish Parliament has been condemned by a group of leading doctors for staging an exhibition celebrating “Israeli technology” in the wake of the country’s bombing campaign in Gaza. The medics have demanded the cancellation of the exhibition in the public…
(pictured above: supporters outside Edinburgh Sheriff Court, 29th March 2010) Tuesday 30th March 2010 Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign: Media Release JUDGEMENT DUE ON ISRAEL PROTEST Five Palestine campaigners contesting the relevancy of a “racism” charge in relation to their protest of an Israeli string quartet will find out next week if their legal challenge…
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25 March 2010 by Mike Marqusee March 29th will see the resumption in an Edinburgh court of an extraordinary trial with disturbing implications for freedom of expression and campaigners for Palestinian rights. Back in August 2008, five members of the Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign disrupted an Edinburgh performance of the Jerusalem Quartet, who are promoted…
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2010 Mar 23: PILGER – “RACISM” CHARGE AGAINST PALESTINE CAMPAIGNERS “SHOULD BE LAUGHED OUT OF COURT”
Tuesday 23rd March 2010 Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign: Media Release PILGER – “RACISM” CHARGE AGAINST PALESTINE CAMPAIGNERS “SHOULD BE LAUGHED OUT OF COURT” Investigative journalist John Pilger says the “racism” charge levelled at 5 Palestine campaigners “should be laughed out of court”. The award-winning journalist and documentary-maker added his voice…
UK supermarkets targeted for stocking Israeli goods Jerusalem Post original article: http://www.jpost.com/International/Article.aspx?id=159789 JONNY PAUL, Jerusalem Post correspondent in London 07/11/2009 23:32 “We are not motivated by politics…” Waitrose staff had visited the West Bank and were happy with the producers. UK supermarkets targeted LONDON – Activists are targeting two supermarket chains in a weeklong protest starting…
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