Show of solidarity with Palestinians undergoing Collective Punishment

Activists from across the North East of Scotland yesterday came together for an emergency demonstration in St. Nicholas Square, Aberdeen. They came to stand in solidarity with Palestine, and to protest the latest bout of Israeli enforced collective punishment and the biased mainstream media coverage in the UK. Activists from Dundee and Perth joined over…

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Israel must be forced to end its collective punishment

SPSC calls for intensified solidarity with Palestine as Israeli occupation forces perpetrate yet another illegal collective punishment against the Palestinian people.  Since the kidnapping and killing of three Israeli teenagers from illegal settlements in the West Bank, the Israeli occupation forces have killed at least 6 Palestinian civilians, including one 14-year-old child and a mentally…

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Open letter to Humza Yousaf

OPEN LETTER TO: The Minister for External Affairs and International Development, Humza Yousaf We the undersigned, many of us supporters of Scottish independence, are very concerned and disappointed by Scottish Minister of External Affairs Humza Yousaf’s statement (May 13th) that the Scottish Government opposes the call from Palestine for boycott, divestment and sanctions against the…

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Scotland and Palestine

 The 5th of June marked what Palestinians call Al Naksa (the Setback), referring to the 1967 War when the Israeli forces demolished homes and villages, displaced hundreds of thousands, and occupied the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Today, Palestinians have been demonstrating to commemorate this, being met by rubber-coated steel bullets, tear gas and sound…

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