When the curtain rises in a few days on the 2026 Edinburgh International Film Festival, we can celebrate 20 years of keeping this internationally respected film festival free of any sponsorship and involvement by the genocidal state. In 2006, the EIFF accepted finance from the Israeli Embassy in London and only a determined SPSC-led campaign…
Continue Reading 2006-26 Successful Cultural Boycott in Scotland
Lewis Clark, Chair, FBU East Area (Scotland) on the Earshot Report At this year’s Fire Brigades Union Annual Conference delegates were presented with a report into the killing of emergency service workers in Gaza. On Sunday 23 March 2025, evidence shows the IDF targeted and killed fifteen Palestinian emergency workers – including at least three…
Continue Reading Israeli Executions of Palestinian Aid Workers
Since the ‘ceasefire’ in Gaza entered into force on October 11, 2025, officials have reported 1,168 Palestinians killed and 3,734 injured, as Israel relentlessly continues its genocide in Gaza.[1] What is the response of our leaders? Are meaningful sanctions placed on Israel? Are arms sales to Israel ended? Are arrest warrants for war criminals issued?…
Continue Reading Time for OSCR to strip JNF KKL Scotland of charity status
The Scottish Government, once again, is telling us they are aligned with the establishment As Scotland’s First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon travelled to the US to meet with think tanks making sure they understood that Scotland’s approach to foreign affairs, particularly in the Middle East, did not vary much from the UK government. It appears that…
Continue Reading Scottish Government: inaction on BDS commitment
SPSC calls on all our members and supporters to attend the demonstration on Saturday 27 June at 1 pm in Montgomery Street Park, Edinburgh. Palestine is at the heart of the current struggle against the rise of the far-right on our streets. The state of Israel is an ethnonationalist regime driven by a deeply racist…
Continue Reading Reclaim our streets – Stand for equality, justice and freedom for all
A bench of Scottish judges has quashed a racial aggravation conviction of SPSC founding member Mick Napier in December 2025 by Sheriff John McCormick. They concluded that Sheriff McCormick had not ‘objectively’ or ‘adequately addressed the question of proof of the aggravation’. The Sheriff Appeal Court decision noted that McCormick had ignored defence key evidence: …
Continue Reading Statement on Mick Napier’s successful appeal