On Thursday 10th September the Petitions Committee of the Scottish Parliament will consider SPSC’s petition to defend the right to BDS. We want the Scottish government to state explicitly that we have the right to campaign for BDS and that public bodies in Scotland have the right to implement BDS. The petitions committee could bury it…
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Under the title ‘Religious studies teacher faces losing job after allegedly posting anti-semitic slurs online’, the Scottish redtop Sunday Mail (not related to the UK Mail on Sunday) reports today that the “senior figure in a pro-Israel group faces losing his job as a religious studies teacher” after he “set up a fake social media…
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Press releasePalestine campaigns call on Scottish Government to clarify their position on hate crime27 July 2020 – for immediate release Human rights organisation Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign (SPSC) has called for the Scottish Government to clarify their plans for hate crime legislation in Scotland and to protect the legitimate right of citizens to campaign. In…
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9 July 2020 As representatives of Scottish civil society, we are extremely concerned for the fate of the Palestinian people who have suffered under Israeli occupation, settler colonialism and apartheid for decades. Despite the numerous declarations and resolutions of international bodies such as the United Nations which uphold Palestinian rights including the right of return…
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The BBCreports today that the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) in England and Wales will investigate racism in the police, including “whether the police are treating allegations of hate crime seriously.” There is mounting evidence that Police Scotland refuse to treat hate crime reports seriously. The equivalent of the IOPC north of the border,…
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Gidley identifies one of the five main anti-semitic themes he has uncovered as “variations on the historic blood libel” whereby Jews in Medieval Europe were massacred following Christian claims that Jews kidnapped Christian children and used their blood for religious rituals. From that odd starting point he moves to suggest that talking about Israeli snipers…
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