During a short speech at the annual Al Quds Day demonstration in London in solidarity with the Palestinian people, I observed that the Israeli Embassy arranges workshops around the UK to organise the fightback against the BDS campaign, against supporters of Palestine solidarity in general. The observation is unremarkable, backed up by a mass of…
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protestGlasgow City ChambersSaturday June 29th at 12 noon Jeff Halper is the Israeli author of the acclaimed War against the People (Pluto Press), an authority on the use and mis-use of Israeli arms and surveillance technology. In this 3-minute video, the words of Jeff Halper, taken together with the words of Police Scotland officer Kalim…
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Tomorrow at 10am in the Royal Society of Edinburgh building at 22-26 George Street, Glasgow lawyer Matthew Berlow will continue the work of the pro-Israel crowd, including his group, Glasgow Friends of Israel, to smear those who defend Palestinian rights and oppose the crimes of the State of Israel. Last October, the Herald on Sunday…
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Support the Palestinian call to boycott Seret Israeli Film FestivalEdinburgh Wed 8 May 7.00pm, Cameo, TollcrossGlasgow Thu 9 May 7.30pm, Everyman, Princes Square (off Buchanan Street) Palestinians are in great danger Israeli soldiers are deliberately killing children, disabled, journalists Israeli ministers are openly calling for mass murder and complete ethnic cleansing Israeli Army religious…
Full details of the broadcasts here: http://www.scottishpsc.org.uk/coming-events Join the interactive broadcast Sundays 4pm here:https://www.facebook.com/scottishpsc Sunday 31st March Abdurrahman Abu Nahel, Gaza coordinator of the Palestinian BDS National Committee Sunday 14th April Khaleda Jarrar is the Palestinian representative on the Council of Europe and currently head of the Prisoners Committee of the PLC Sunday 21st April…
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(THIS ARTICLE WILL BE EXPANDED DAILY UNTIL SATURDAY) Palestinian Kholoud Ajjarmi from Aida Refugee Camp, Bethlehem (twinned officially with Glasgow), will speak on her family story, their violent dispossession and expulsion by Zionist Jewish militias in 1948, and their ongoing struggle against the racist Jewish National Fund UK,, who boast of gifting her land and…
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