During International Right 2 Education week in November 2012, Glasgow Caledonian University’s Students for Palestinian Rights put forward two motions to the Student Voice (Parliament) to twin their university Student’s Association (GCUSA) with Bethlehem University Students Senate and officially affiliate with the Palestinian Right 2 Education Campaign. The first motion passed and plans negotiations are…
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“Yesterday at this spot the Israelis shot eight young men, six of whom were under the age of eighteen. One was twelve. This afternoon they kill an eleven-year-old boy, Ali Murad, and seriously wound four more, three of whom are under eighteen. Children have been shot in other conflicts I have covered—death squads gunned them…
Continue Reading Israeli sniper Mor Ostrovski confirms his comrades’ child-killing culture
Israeli musicians also have military strings attached SHELLEY KLEIMAN, World Zionist Press Service 19 June 1998 Jerusalem Quartet members serving in nation’s army They’re young, winsome and talented, and they play classical music. What more could a mother want? It’s not only that Amichai Gross (18), Alexander Pavlovsky (20), Sergei Bressler (19) and Kyril Zlotnikov…
Students at the Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen, have won a BDS victory which will go some way for the people of Palestine and the Syrian Golan Heights who’ve both spent so many years under illegal Israeli occupation, oppression and apartheid, those that is who were not ethnically cleansed from their lands in 1948 and…
Rachel Corrie was killed in Gaza, aged 23, on March 16 2003, by a US-supplied Caterpillar D-9 bulldozer, a vehicle specially built to demolish Palestinian houses. Alan Rickman edited the play My Name is Rachel Corrie, which deals with the short life, that preceded her death while trying to prevent the demolition of a Palestinian home.…
Continue Reading Don’t let the deaths be in vain: what you can do to stop Israel’s crimes
We did not write concerning some ‘escalation of violence in Gaza’ – what weasel words to describe Israel’s crimes against humanity, Palestinian humanity…You have pointedly ignored our reference to Alex Salmond’s 2010 statement that “you can’t have normal relationships if you believe another country has been involved in what Israel has been involved in”. Your…
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