{gallery}ahed{/gallery} VideoSinging from the streets of Scotland’s capital into the Israeli dungeons “Happy Birthday Ahed!” Solidarity forever until freedom comes for ALL Palestinian prisoners! Edinburgh, 31 January 2018: Edinburgh Branch SPSC + “Protest in Harmony”
An email exchange yesterday and this morning with a Glasgow Zionist activist that shows the absurd and dishonest lengths they go to in defence of a racist state and its crimes against humanity. The scandal is that Scottish political leaders Nicola Sturgeon, Kezia Dugsdale and Willie Rennie endorsed – presumably unwittingly – the efforts of…
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Israeli society has been incensed this week with the video of Ahed Tamimi and two other girls from Nabi Saleh, who slapped the Israeli soldiers occupying their family yard. The story of her 15-year-old cousin Mohammed being shot in the head by soldiers (and put into coma) just prior to that played no part in…
The Israel-Trump school of diplomacy was on full view as US Ambassador Haley again threatened the UN as a whole, and Israeli Ambassador Danon followed Haley to snarl at those in the hall: “You are like puppets pulled by the strings of your Palestinian puppet masters…forced to dance while the Palestinian leadership looks on with…
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For immediate release Is Scotland encouraging Israel’s extremism? 7 December 2017 Donald Trump’s decision to recognise Jerusalem as Israel’s capital has been condemned by campaigners for Palestinian rights in Scotland. They claim that the move fits with Trump’s general alignment with the far right and White supremacists in America. Mick Napier of Scottish Palestine Solidarity…
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Update 29 January 2018 Lord Bracadale is expected to publish his report and recommendations in Spring 2018. The Hate Crime Legislation Review group has not yet published the review submissions on their website but we are aware of the following. The Faculty of Advocates response to the question of particular concern to us. Question 6…
Continue Reading Three submissions to ‘Review’ but no submission to attacks on free speech