A Tangled WebSarah Glynn unpicks the fine lines between anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism. An organisation calling itself Jewish Human Rights Watch has just published a report that purports to show that the Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign is motivated, not by concern for the plight of the Palestinians, but by hatred of Jews. As a Jew who…
Continue Reading Anti-Zionism, anti-semitism and internet conspiracy theories
{jcomments on} Alex Massie wrote a piece based on the smears and untruths of a pro-Israel blogger, David Collier, who has attributed to ‘SPSC’s core activists’ a raft of unpleasant anti-semitic posts by people who either have no connection whatsover with SPSC or attend have attended public events orgnanised by SPSC. In place of robust…
Continue Reading Tory MSP Tomkins supports Israel’s mass murder – now smears critics
The entire written and audio-visual content of the SPSC website and Facebook pages over seventeen years, together with scores of hours of TV discussions by SPSC representatives reveals not a scintilla of antisemitic material, suggestions or ‘dog whistles’. The material contains many direct and vigorous rebuttals of antisemitic theories raised by others to explain the…
Continue Reading Israel kills Palestinians and works to silence dissent
As noted by Prof Stephen Graham of Newcastle University Dept of Architecture, the Israeli Army applied Nazi Germany’s experience of crushing the Warsaw Ghetto uprising to attack and crush Palestinian resistance in Jenin: “Just as Israeli staff officers had no compunction studying the lessons of the Wehrmacht’s attack on the Warsaw Ghetto, as preparation for…
Continue Reading Israel applied lessons from Warsaw Ghetto to crush Palestinians
Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign Statement 29 July 2017 Scottish PSC is not inclined to take seriously the so-called ‘research’ of a pro-Israel blogger whose primary purpose is to smear organisations that support Palestinian rights 1, to deflect attention away from what Palestinians have to endure on a daily basis – home demolitions, expulsions, killings, torture and…
On July 20th Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign and Mick Napier as an individual received virtually identical letters from defamation lawyers who had been instructed by a member of Glasgow Friends of Israel, Matthew Berlow, to demand an apology and financial compensation for an article written and posted on the SPSC website a few days earlier.…
Continue Reading Fresh legal threats against SPSC from ‘Friends of Israel’ activist