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On Saturday 25th November the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) mounted a successful picket outside the entrance to the Limerick branch of the Atlantic Homecare chain store in Ireland. (more…)

In a remarkable judgement, Thursday 26th Jan 2006, after a half time application by the defence team in the Uxbridge 7 trial, a District judge ruled that seven anti-apartheid protesters who had blockaded the Israeli agricultural export company, Agrexco UK, had no case to answer and the case was dismissed. (more…)

November 23, 2006Dear SolidarityThe Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign welcomes the statement from ‘Solidarity’ on the deepening crisis in Palestine. No political formation in Scotland to date has expressed officially, openly and unambiguously its support for the just struggle of the Palestinian people. (more…)

We will Protest every Visit by Israeli State Agents to Scotland 17 November 2006 “The Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign deplores the decision of the Newton Mearns Synagogue authorities to invite the Israeli Ambassador to deliver a political speech there on Thursday November 23. In the immediate aftermath of the murderous invasion of Lebanon, and the…

Aharon Shabtai who is considered one of the greatest poets in Hebrew, could not publish his latest poem against the war on Lebanon in any “Israeli” paper. He wrote this poem during the first week of the war. It is in the form of a prayer and supplication raised so that the occupation army may…

a. A STRONG SUSPICION OF RUSSIAN SECRET SERVICE POISONING: Alexander Litvinenko has died in hospital, possibly the victim of poisoning, possibly because of his opposition to Russia’s brutality in Chechnya, possibly because he revealed possible Russian secret service involvement in the bombing of an apartment building in Moscow. “The cause of Mr Litvinenko’s death is…