Join the protests against Israeli State-promoted Seret Film Festival 5pm on Sunday 6th and Monday 7th May at the Cameo Cinema, Home Street, Edinburgh An article in Today’s Herald, Artists and directors call for Edinburgh’s Cameo cinema to pull out of ‘art-washing’ Israeli film festival, refers to a letter in the same edition where…
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“Medecins sans Frontieres (MSF) report a ‘huge majority of patients – mainly young men, but also some women and children – have unusually severe wounds to the lower extremities. MSF medical teams note the injuries include an extreme level of destruction to bones and soft tissue, and large exit wounds that can be the size…
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“The failure of the UK Government, however, does not stop Scottish institutions, local authorities and others from taking inspiration from across the sea. Dublin City Council earlier this month endorsed the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign and decided to stop business with Hewlett Packard until it stops providing services and technology to the Israeli army…
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Three important articles from Mondoweiss on Gaza 1. Contextualizing the Great March of Return by Haider Eid from Gaza2. Striking images from the last week of Gaza’s Great March of Return 3. The Gaza protests are challenging every facet of Israel’s dispossession of the Palestinian peopleSPSC is of one mind with Palestinian Steven Salaita’s suggestions…
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The enemies of free speech on Palestine want to criminalise the term ‘Zionist’, shortened or not. A Westminster Parliament Home Affairs Committee allowed the term ‘Zionism’ to be used but claimed that “The word ‘Zionist’ (or worse, ‘Zio’) as a term of abuse has no place in a civilised society”…The Westminster Parliament Home Affairs Committee…
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“When the Palestinians see themselves reflected in the struggles of the victims of racism around the world, how can we in the UK see the Palestinians as a divisive issue and exclude our struggle against racism from the struggle against state-enforced racism, i.e. apartheid, in Israel/Palestine that is backed by the UK government?” Mick NapierWest…
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