“Every politician who condemns the Russian invasion of Ukraine, who ratchets up the bellicose rhetoric without opposing Israel’s crimes against humanity, is a liar and a deceiver; their talk of defending the Ukrainian people is a dangerous deception…You cannot be a brutal rapist on many city streets and be accepted as a defender…
Continue Reading A war of aggression is the supreme international crime
Scottish PSC, 23 February 2022 Robert Jenrick, a member of Conservative Friends of Israel, is a man found to have had questionable links to an Israeli businessman when he was housing secretary and who participated in Trump’s so-called ‘deal of the century’ which served to legitimise Israel’s colonial project and system of apartheid. It is no…
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In 2014, Israel attacked Gaza with overwhelming force and slaughtered over 2,200 Palestinian men, woman and children – over 10,000 were wounded, including 3,374 children, of whom over 1,000 were left permanently disabled. Palestinians heroically resisted the Israeli blitzkrieg and killed 67 of the invading Israeli soldiers (and five Israeli civilians). Around the world, BDS…
Continue Reading BDS successes of 2014 that need to be defended and extended
Issam Hijjawi has now been held on remand at Maghaberry prison in Northern Ireland for more than a year. He was arrested on 22nd August 2020 and charged under Section 5 of the Terrorism Act 2006 which we know defines the offence of ‘preparation of terrorist acts’ in a very broad way. This related to his attendance…
A 140-strong Israeli delegation is coming to the UN Climate Change Summit in Glasgow, bigger than any other delegation except the US. At the same time Israel and the UK cooperate to prevent some Palestinian NGOs sending representatives to Glasgow. This from a country that has burned and destroyed over a million Palestinian olive trees,…
Continue Reading Join COP26 Palestine solidarity bloc on Climate Justice march
Write letters to your MSPs and MPs to ask them to take action against Israel’s designation of six Palestinian independent non-governmental civil society organisations as ‘terror organisations’. Ask them to take immediate action by: making a public statement in support of these organisations and calling on Israel to rescind these designations refusing to meet with…
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