Sunday, 9th November 2003 On the International Day of Action Again the Wall, a huge wall was erected on the Royal Mile and then torn down. Pictures from the day:
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Saturday, 27th September 2003 A huge banner bearing the words “Stop Israel’s Apartheid Wall” was draped across a high building on Edinburgh’s busy Princes street last Saturday, September 27th. The stunt coincided with a rally on the Mound nearby, one of hundreds around the world opposing the occupations in Palestine and Iraq. The bold red…
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Israel’s Academic Boycott: The Siege of Palestinian Education Introduction In the furore that followed the suggestion of a limited academic boycott of Israel in April 2002, two major arguments were employed in opposition. The first was that the boycott is an attack on academic freedom, and therefore fundamentally immoral. The second is that Israeli academia…
Continue Reading An International Video Conference – March 4th 2003
The night before the great anti-war demonstration of February 15th 2003, Professor Edward Said of Columbia University, New York, gave a powerful analysis of the issues underlying this unprecedented global expression of popular resistance. In an event organised by the Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign and the Glasgow branch of Globalize Resistance, Professor Said spoke via…
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“ALL FREE PEOPLE…Bring your thunder…Bombard the towers of injustice…”26 October 2002 On Oct 19, the words of exiled Palestinian poet, Ghazi Hussein had echoed in the ears and minds of 15,000 demonstrators at the STOP THE WAR AGAINST IRAQ – FREE PALESTINE rally held in Glasgow. One week later, a follow-up demonstration organised by the…
Continue Reading Shaul Mofaz at the Glasgow Hilton – October 2002
Friday 11 October 2002 The well-known linguist and critic of American foreign policy, Professor Noam Chomsky, gave a talk via live video link-up from MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) to meetings called by the Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign around Scotland and the North of England. Almost 2,000 people, in cities and towns across Scotland and…
Continue Reading Noam Chomsky Talk: “Anti-Semitism, Zionism, and the Palestinians” – October 2002