MEDIA RELEASEThursday 23 May 2013 Delegates to the Church of Scotland General Assembly have today voted to adopt a report by its Church and Society Council which challenged “claims that scripture offers any peoples a privileged claim for possession of a particular territory”. The Church report argues that it is “doubly wrong to seek biblical…
Videla reserved special treatment for Jews, and among those kidnapped there were approximately 1300 Jews, significantly higher than their share of the population. They also received special treatment in terms of torture. There is a slight irony that this antisemitic ruler secured the fervent cooperation of the Israeli government. In late 1977 the Ambassador to…
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Gordon Brown MP is Patron of an openly racist organisation, worked to criminalise free speech for supporters of Palestine As Scottish civil society declares increasingly in favour of Palestinian rights, Gordon Brown remains a Patron of the racist JNF (Jewish National Fund) and a signatory of a Declaration to criminalise free speech on Israel and…
Motion S4M-05982 calling for inspection of Israel’s vast nuclear arsenal has been closed, with 43 MSPs in support of S4M-05982 opposing nuclear weapons inScotland and the Middle East. 18 March 2013 43 signatories equals over a third of the total number of MSPs and 40% if weexclude the 21 Ministers who by convention decline to…
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The Inheritance of Abraham? A report on the ‘promised land’ is a ground-breaking report by the Church and Society Council that was overwhelmingly agreed this weekend at the annual General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in Edinburgh. In adopting the report with only a handful of votes for remitting it, the Church of Scotland…
“The Church of Scotland is right to criticise Israel because of the ‘appalling’ way it has treated the Palestinians, according to one of its most senior clerics. “The Very Reverend Gilleasbuig MacMillan, who is stepping down as minister at St Giles Cathedral in Edinburgh after 40 years in the post, says that he supports a…
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