Ephraim Borowski, Scottish Council of Jewish Communities Director, demanded that Christians condone the ethnic cleansing of Palestine and elsewhere as Biblically endorsed, or accept they are committing “an outrage to everything that interfaith dialogue stands for”. Borowski, who once dishonestly obtained an endorsement from the Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond for a a book that…
Audiences were so impressed by our young friends from Lajee Cultural Centre in Aida Refugee Camp in Bethlehem that they are back again this year. Your solidarity is especially needed now: Israeli occupation forces have been killing children and also arrested 53 people in recent days including two of the Lajee youth dancers. Defence of Children…
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Rich Wiles, author of Behind the Wall, and a photographer who has run a photography skills project in Aida Camp, Bethlehem for many years, is editor of this important collection of contributions from Pluto Press, containing pieces from Desmond Tutu, Ken Loach, Iain Banks, Ronnie Kasrils, Omar Barghouti, Ramzy Baroud and others directly involved in this…
You are invited to participate in the latest of SPSC’s open-ended discussion that explore the degree of consensus among participants on a range of topics that need to be addressed if campaigning for solidarity with Palestine is to be increasingly effective.(Mahmoud Sarsak will be joining us for the discussion on Solidarity with Palestinian prisoners and…
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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