Conference details, speakers & participants A two day conference bringing international speakers and Scottish groups and organisations actively supporting the Palestinian call for a campaign of Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) aims to build on boycott successes and growing civil society support for Palestine in Scotland and around the UK. Divestment of public, workplace and…
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UPDATE: Findhorn Foundation statement Many supporters of a militaristic movement which was central to the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians are among those presenting papers at a conference which “The Findhorn Foundation and community will proudly host” in less than a week (26–28 June). Kibbutzim are based on stolen land whose owners were driven out with…
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Workshop on campaigning for BDS with elected local councils Saturday 20 July 2013St John’s Church Hall, Princes Street, Edinburgh12noon – 5pm Recent months have seen developments in the campaign for BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) to isolate the state of Israel until it ends its human rights violations against the Palestinian people: Steven…
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Israeli football, racism and politics: The ugly side of the beautiful gameJonathan Cook 25 April 2013 Rifaat Turk, the most successful Arab player in Israeli football and the first to be selected for the national team, in 1976, recalled that it “started to rain” every time he stepped on the pitch there was so much…
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Fayez Sayegh (1965)The frenzied ‘Scramble for Africa’ of the 1880s stimulated the beginnings of Zionist colonisation in Palestine. As European fortunehunters, prospective settlers, and empire builders raced for Africa, Zionist settlers and would-be state-builders rushed for Palestine…If other European nations had successfully extended themselves into Asia and Africa, and had annexed to their imperial domains…
Mahmoud Sarsak: ‘Football is my weapon of resistance’Friday 14 JuneFIFPro World – Anti-racism FIFPro – represented in the person of anti-racism spokesman and FIFPro Division Europe board member Tony Higgins – finally met Mahmoud Sarsak – the Palestinian footballer, former political detainee and hunger striker – on Tuesday night June 11th in Edinburgh. In a…