Mahmoud Sarsak Scottish leg of tour: 1-16 JuneMahmoud Sarsak was a member of the Palestinian national football team who was seized by Israeli troops, interned without charge and tortured over many weeks in Israel’s notorious prison system. After three years, i.e. six ‘democratic and lawful’ periods of six months imprisonment without trial or charge, Mahmoud…
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The Jewish National Fund, experts in racist land administration, have long faced the opposition of Palestine solidarity campaigners in Scotland. The JNF is responsible for dispossessing tens of thousands of Palestinians of their lands, for example building the ‘British Park’ over the ruins of ethnically cleansed Palestinian villages. At its 2013 Congress, the Scottish TUC…
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An event to be held at a St Andrews hotel, aimed at raising funds for the Friends of the IDF and the JNF, has been cancelled on police advice in the face of serious mobilisations for planned protests. Palestine activists, human rights campaigners and students joined forces to speak out against the inclusion of Friends of…
The names Jewish National Fund and Israeli Defence Force are both deceitful. The former is a so called “private” organisation which however had the exclusive right to acquire private land which was abandoned by its owners who fled from the atrocities by the IDF in 1948. Another aspect of this exclusive right of a private…
Mahmoud Sarsak Scottish tour: 1-16 JuneMahmoud Sarsak was a member of the Palestinian national football team who was seized by Israeli troops and held without charge in Israel’s notorious prison system. After three years, Sarsak went on hunger strike to demand that he be given prisoner-of-war status, on account of his having been detained under…
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“G4S, the world’s biggest security company by revenues, has confirmed it is planning to quit key contracts in Israel amid protests against its involvement in settlements within Occupied Palestinian territories.” Gill Plimmer, Financial Times 21 April 2013The company employs 6,000 people in Israel, where it provides and maintains screening equipment for several West Bank military…
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