UK, Israel in anti-terror link-up THE ever-closer links between Britain and Israel in the fight against terrorism were stressed this week by Metropolitan Police commissioner Sir Ian Blair. There was a “natural sympathy” between the two countries which had both faced long-term terrorist threats, he told the Jewish Telegraph. Sir Ian was speaking after a…
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New academic boycott plan meets swift resistance 28/03/2008 by Leon Symons in Jewish Chronicle – excerpts Attempt by the University and College Union national executive to reintroduce an academic boycott of Israel…has brought a swift communal response. The Stop The Boycott campaign, launched to defeat last year’s proposal — successfully — has been reactivated, and…
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A majority of people believe that Israel and Iran have a mainly negative influence in the world, a poll for the BBC World Service suggests. The poll asked 28,000 people in 27 countries to rate a dozen countries plus the EU in terms of whether they have a positive or negative influence. In January, the…
Continue Reading March 2008 – BBC reports Israel still most unpopular state in the world
UN agency says sick Gazans die in ‘avoidable tragedies’ Israel has turned away more sick Palestinians from Gaza seeking treatment since Hamas seized control of the enclave and several have died each month unnecessarily, a UN agency said on Tuesday. Shortages of medicine, equipment and trained medics, which local officials blame on Israeli restrictions, mean…
Unlawful homes for Israeli settlers, demolitions for Palestinians Reliefweb, 31st March, 2009 Mobile homes for an illegal Israeli settlement in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT) got the go-ahead within a week of Israeli bulldozers demolishing Palestinian homes and property in the area. Those whose homes were demolished included families with children. In the villages of…
Continue Reading Orgy of destruction of Palestinian homes and construction of Illegal settler houses
Six Scottish PSC Delegates to the Cairo Conference on US & Zionist Ocupation will present this paper. “Any response to the crisis in the Middle East, and the need for more effective international solidarity with the Arab, Muslim and other victims of imperialist barbarism has to start from the failure of the people of the…