“A major contradiction is being played out by the Scottish Government. It has adopted the IHRA definition whilst at the same time accepting the key recommendation in Lord Bracadale’s review regarding political entities (such as Israel or Zionism) in which he stated ‘…hate crime legislation should not extend to political entities as protected characteristics. I…
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“The Zionist battle for Safad was bloody and horrific. By the time the battle started, most women and children had fled the village, having witnessed the destruction and massacre of Ein Al Zaytoun village just across the valley to the north. This was a tactic employed by the Zionist Haganah and Palmach terror groups to…
“Of course, the real heroes are the journalists on the ground covering the persecution of Palestinians and the brutal Israeli occupation of their land. As we’ve seen countless times, reporting in that part of the world makes you an Israeli military target, and soldiers seem to be able to shoot at TV news crews and…
I sat through three days of the General Teaching Council Scotland (GTCS) four-day fitness-to-teach hearing of the ex-Convenor of the Confederation of Friends of Israel Scotland (COFIS), Edward Sutherland, a religious affairs teacher at Bell Academy in Ayr, Scotland. Despite his denials under oath, the GTCS panel found that Sutherland had posted anti-Semitic comments and…
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Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign lost a member, Mundher Al-Adhami, who passed away on 11 March in Tunis. Mundher was an Iraqi activist, born in Baghdad in 1942 who joined and led opposition to dictatorships in Iraq and the Arab world. Since 1990 he fought the policies of siege and war led by the United States…
Scottish PSC Statement On 21 March 1960 the police in Sharpeville, South Africa, opened fire and killed 69 peaceful demonstrators who were protesting aègainst the apartheid ‘pass laws’. On this day every year the UN observes the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, and is marked in many parts of the world in…
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