by Gary Rosenblatt Published in Jewish Week, 20 January 2005 The campaign, called Brand Israel, is a strategic marketing effort formed more than a year ago but not made public until now, with seven business and research experts volunteering their expertise on behalf of the foreign ministry. Think of Israel as a product undergoing an…
Faced with determined opposition, the Royal Bank of Scotland has retreated from its attempt to damage a group campaigning for Palestinian human rights, Friends of Al Aqsa, by withdrawing banking facilities at short notice. The Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign joined together with the Muslim Association of Britain (Scotland) to call for a programme of demonstrations…
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Why Boycott Israel by Omar Barghouti, December 20, 2004 www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/7206 “Where is the world? Is it dead?” exclaimed the bereaved mother in Rafah on Al-Jazeera. Before her, lied the lifeless body of her little child. Faced with overwhelming Israeli oppression, Palestinians under occupation, in refugee camps and in the heart of Israel’s distinct form of apartheid…
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by Chris McGreal, The Guardian, 29 November 2004 Of all the revelations that have rocked the Israeli army over the past week, perhaps none disturbed the public so much as the video footage of soldiers forcing a Palestinian man to play his violin. The incident was not as shocking as the recording of an Israeli…
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24th September 2004 at Teviot Terrace Bar (organised by Edinburgh University Palestine Solidarity Society) Review by Shabana Basheer Jewish comedian Ivor Dembina’s stand-up show This is Not a Subject for Comedy, met with a hugely positive reaction when he performed to a packed room in Edinburgh University Students’ Union at Teviot on Friday night. Based…
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11 SPSC members staged a 48-hour hunger vigil at St John’s Church in solidarity with thousands of political prisoners, hunger-striking in protest at the appalling conditions in which they are being held. 2-4th September 2004 Israel keeps over 10,000 Palestinian hostages in its dungeons. Many are children. Many are detained without any trial. SPSC members…
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