Latuff is a cartoonist who calls out the crimes of the State of Israel and its apologists everywhere. His cartoons are sharp and clear and make perfect sense. Sadly, Jeremy Corbyn’s Twitter feed has attacked one of Latuff’s cartoons as “antisemitic” for alleging that Israel is weaponising baseless allegations of antisemitism to smear those who…
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Andrew Ross is speaking at meetings across Scotland on his latest book, Stone Men: the Palestinians who Built Israel. The main content of Stone Men comes from interviews with Palestinian building workers across Palestine/Israel, in the reporting and analysis of which, Omar Barghouti, a founder of the Palestinian BDS movement, writes that “Ross takes…
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Protest Israeli Surveillance System in GlasgowSaturday 3rd August 1pmGeorge Square at City Chambers Resistance to both police use of automatic facial recognition generally and Israeli spyware specifically is growing. Scotland seems to be experiencing a perfect storm: Even though US cities – San Francisco, Oakland, Orlando – are banning the use…
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The Zionist-led Scottish Council of Jewish Communities has made a submission to the Scottish Government’s recently concluded consultation on external affairs. It is a rather mechanical recycling of familiar pro-Israel tropes, throwing around accusations of antisemitism as SCoJeC has been doing for many years without any justification, including false allegations against Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign…
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On the BBC Today programme this morning, Justin Webb introduces a piece (1:52 in) on the “horror” among many Labour MPs at the Party reinstating left-wing MP Chris Williamson, accused of alleged anti-semitism. Lord Charles Falconer is then allowed to dismiss any possibility that Chris Williamson is other than an anti-semite by presenting “indisputable evidence”…
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The Scottish Refugee Council’s decision to partner with the Scottish Council of Jewish Communities, which actively co-operates with and supports the Israeli Government, does all refugees a disservice THE Scottish Refugee Council’s statement of vision and aims states that it is committed to “campaign and advocate for the rights of refugees” and to “working in partnership where that will benefit…
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