Film premiere of Enduring Roots: Over a Century of Resistance to the JNF & discussion with Eurig Scandrett on the Friends of the Earth International Report ‘Environmental Nakba’ – the catastrophic impact on Palestinians of Israel’s occupation, colonisation, and apartheid Enduring Roots: Over a Century of Resistance to the Jewish National Fund is a documentary…
Remembering the Ibrahimi Mosque massacreIn an event which cemented the city’s occupation, Baruch Goldstein gunned down Muslim worshippers 20 years ago today.Rich Wiles Hebron, occupied Palestinian territories: On February 25 1994, a US-born Israeli military physician walked into the Ibrahimi mosque in Hebron armed with a Galil assault rifle. It was early morning during the…
Edinburgh SPSC Branch Newsletter : March 2014Scarlett Johanssen has recently given an inadvertent boost to the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign. Her decision to choose profit over principle and dump Oxfam for Israeli settler company Soda Stream changed her overnight from an ambassador for a humanitarian charity to become the Hollywood face of Apartheid.The controversy reached…
Thousands mourn child shot dead by Israeli sniper in al-JalazunMa’an News Agency 09/12/2013 RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — Thousands of mourners turned out on Sunday for the burial of Wajih Wajdi al-Ramahi, a 14-year-old Palestinian boy who was shot dead by Israeli forces near al-Jalazun refugee camp while he was walking home from school on Saturday. Al-Ramahi…
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Take a lawyer’s advice – visit the occupied territoriesBy David Middleburgh,Jewish Chronicle 24 January 2014 “…conviction rates are 99.7 per cent…there is no longer any point in fighting for basic rights…the court system was clearly a figleaf for a system of arbitrary justice where the guilt of the child is beside the point…a system that…
Continue Reading British Zionists concede horror of occupation, despair at Israel’s pariah status
Children in Chains Edinburgh-based independent writer and film makerJon Pullman’s film about the abuse of Palestinianchildren in the Israeli court system Augustine Church, George IV Bridge!7.30pm Thursday 30 January 2014 For many decades now the world has looked away while the people of Palestine have been subject to a slow, but relentless attempt at erasure…