Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign — Media Release Tue 29th December 2009 Holocaust survivor starts hunger strike to protest blockade of Gaza An 85 year-old Holocaust survivor began a hunger strike in Cairo yesterday in an attempt to pressure Egyptian authorities to stop cooperating with Israel’s blockade of Gaza. Hedy Epstein is part of an international…
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Contact the Egyptian Embassy: Egyptian Embassy (Diplomatic Mission)E-Mail: eg.emb_london@mfa.gov.eg Tel.: 020 7499 3304 Egyptian Tourist OfficeTel.: 020 7493 5283 Egyptian Press and Information OfficeTel.: 020 7409 2236 Contact your MP: http://www.writetothem.com/ David Miliband (Foreign Secretary/Labour MP for South Shields) milibandd@parliament.uk (0191) 456 8910 British Embassy in Egypt Tel: +(20)(2)27916000 information.cairo@fco.gov.uk …
Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign — Media Release Thursday 24th December 2009 Scots group heads to Palestine to break the Gaza siege. A Scottish group is set to join around two thousand internationals in a bid to break Israel’s siege of Gaza at the end of the year. Twelve members of the Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign…
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by Bob Williamson and John Goss (International Solidarity Movement London)Indymedia, 15 December 2009 Last Sunday we (two members of the Inetrnational Solidarity Movement London) obtained tickets to the JNF conference, which Israeli war criminal Tzipi Livni was due to address. She didnt show up and we heckled the Israeli ambassador instead but in the meantime…
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Miliband moves to protect Israeli politicians from UK lawsMick Napier, 15 December 2009 Israeli ex-Minister Livni called off her planned visit to London after a Westminster magistrate issued an warrant for her arrest for her involvement in the planning of war crimes in Gaza. Like the verdicts of British juries that the Israeli Army murdered…
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Israel must unpick its ethnic mythBy Tony Judt in the Financial Times, December 8 2009 “…we can begin to understand that the country’s insistence upon its exclusive claim upon Jewish identity is a significant handicap. In the first place, such an insistence reduces all non-Jewish Israeli citizens and residents to second-class status. This would be…
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