Jeff Halper’s talk on Moday is a vital contribution to the discussion over Israel’s NSO sales of Pegagsus electronic warfare tools around the world. There seems little doubt the hacking and tracking software has been used by some of the world’s most brutal regimes to locate, torture or kill dissidents, some of them journalists, as…
Continue Reading Unit 8200 spawned both NSO and Israeli ‘NICE’ Security Group
1. Jonathan Freedland’s untruthFreedland:“Back in 1971 was this the first ever case where a commercial scheduled passenger jet had been hijacked, taken over by a government?” Learmount: “I think that was pretty much unique at the time…” BBC Radio 4 hosts a weekly programme, The Long View, where Jonathan Freedland takes a prominent news item…
Continue Reading BBC shameless lie to conceal Israeli air piracy
Below we reproduce an Edinburgh delegate’s speech to the 2021 Aslef annual conference. The debate led to the 80 delegates (virtually unanimously with no votes against) passing what Aslef General Secretary Mick Whelan called “a motion in solidarity with the people of Palestine after recent attacks on them by the Israeli state. Whether it’s the…
Continue Reading I’m fed up talking about emergencies in Palestine
Palestinians are in danger: the new Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has called previously for the mass killing of thousands of Palestinian political prisoners and boasts that he “has killed lots of Arabs”. UK Prime Minister and self-declared “passionate Zionist”, Boris Johnson, offered Bennett his congratulations and the lucrative UK arms trade with Israel is…
Continue Reading Demonstrate against the Israeli Murder Regime
Lothian Pension Fund, the second largest local authority pension fund in Scotland with 84,000 members and £8bn of assets, has divested from Israeli Bank Hapoalim. This is the third such decision in Scotland to divest from Bank Hapoalim; Falkirk Pension Fund divested in 2018 in response to divestment pressures from activists and trade unions; in…
Continue Reading Lothian Pension Fund divests from Bank Hapoalim
Scottish PSC has been made aware of a statement by Mohammad Asif, Afghan Human Rights Foundation, that he was ‘verbally abused and physically assaulted & shove by an individual while I was marching for Palestine’ and that the ‘movement against the Israeli apartheid and anti racism does not belong to one individual or one organisation’.…