On December 21st, pro-Israeli groups are planning to deliver Israeli foodstuffs to homeless shelters and food banks as a way to undermine support for the Palestinian appeal for BDS. The move is cynical and hypocritical. The same people who support Israel’s mass bulldozing of Palestinian homes, the mass creation of homelessness are claiming to help…
Continue Reading Using the poor for Zionist political ends on December 21st
“One constant of political Zionism is the smearing of their victims, the mantra that Palestinian resistance to Israeli ethnic cleansing means wanting to “drive the Jews into the sea”. Asking for human rights for Palestinians means, in this common settler-colonial world view, to want genocide. Now here in Scotland, the same smear can be heard…
Continue Reading Scottish Zionist claims of anti-semitism get weirder
Had our problems with Police Scotland: arrests and jailings recently for peaceful protests; Saturday night knock on the dooor and off to the cells for the weekend; an illegal arrest and assault; a cover-up of a complaint. So it was gratifying on several levels to receive this note (which I had forgotten about due to…
Continue Reading Letter of support from ex-Chief Inspector Edinburgh Police
A Celtic fan was ejected and threatened with arrest at Tynecastle after Celtic officials raised an objection to the tee-shirt he was wearing, which said ‘Free Palestine’ on the front and ‘Boycott Israel’ on the back. Threats to free expression by supporters of Palestinian freedom from occupation, colonisation and apartheid have been a constant over…
PALESTINE: Sexual Violence, Women`s Bodies, and Israeli Settler Colonialismby Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, Sarah Ihmoud and Suhad Dahir-Nashif17 November 2014 “They not only invaded our home, took over our space, and evicted us—they even arrested me and took me to the Maskubya—the police station. I was put in room number four, alone, for a long time. Then,…
Continue Reading Rape in the practice and the culture of Israeli settler colonialism
Palestinians are being driven from their land to make way for illegal settlements that are only viable because they can export goods to European retailers. Whole Foods and John Lewis market themselves as responsible retailers but there’s nothing ethical about Israeli occupation and apartheid” Campaigners for Palestinian human rights this afternoon occupied and shut down…
Continue Reading High St stores selling SodaStream shut down by BDS activists in London