Learn about the history of the Palestinian struggle for freedom, equality and justice by exploring major events in the history of their oppression on this day of the year.
28 January
ZIONISTS COMPARE MASS JEW-HATRED IN SCOTLAND TO NAZI GERMANY
On this day in 2009, amidst worldwide horror at Israel’s massacre of Palestinians, West Dunbartonshire Council became the first Scottish Local Authority to vote to support the Palestinian call for BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions). It re-affirmed its support for BDS after the June 2010 Israeli massacre of Turkish peace activists on the Mavi Marmara on its way to Gaza. The Council wrote to all Scottish Local Authorities and the Scottish Government, calling on them to support BDS.
يقارن الصهاينة بين عدد كبير من الذين" يكرهون اليهود" في اسكتلندا وألمانيا النازية
28 يناير
في مثل هذا اليوم من عام 2009 ، وسط السخط العالمي من المذبحة الإسرائيلية للفلسطينيين ، أصبح مجلس وست- دونبارتون- شاير أول سلطة محلية اسكتلندية تصوت لدعم النداء الفلسطيني لـ (المقاطعة وسحب الاستثمارات والعقوبات ب.د.س) ، وأكد المجلس دعمه لحركة (ب.د.س) بعد المجزرة الإسرائيلية في حزيران 2010 بحق نشطاء السلام الأتراك على السفينة مرمرة في طريقها إلى غزة. كتب المجلس إلى جميع السلطات المحلية الاسكتلندية والحكومة الاسكتلندية ، داعياً إياهم إلى دعم المقاطعة.
On Friday 21 May 2011 Marcus Dysch invented a story in the Jewish Chronicle that "Books by Israeli authors could be removed from Scottish libraries" as part of an elected Scottish Council's BDS campaign. Dysch claimed "the ban is enforceable in libraries run by West Dunbartonshire Council" and referred to un-named "Israel supporters" who claimed that this ban "aligned the council with Iran and Saudi Arabia".
The following day, the Tory Scottish Daily Express claimed that West Dunbartonshire Council is "launching a boycott of Israeli books" and favourably quoted the Israeli Embassy's Amir Oftek, who compared the Council to Joseph Goebbels burning books by Jewish authors.
Under the heading "Scottish Council Launches Ban on Israeli Books", one Israeli website called for an email campaign against "the latest sick chapter in the BDS campaign". The Jerusalem Post told Israeli readers three days later that the censorship wave had spread across the whole of Scotland, in an article headlined, "Israeli book ban may be imposed in Scottish libraries".
YNet News Service in Israel claimed that even Scottish bookshops were being subject to the censorship, since "several districts in southwest Scotland expands boycott on Israeli products, bar stores from carrying English translations of Israeli books". Israeli Ambassador Prosor warned that: "A place that boycotts books isn't far from a place that burns them".
Jeffrey Goldberg shared with the 400,000 readers of The Atlantic (aimed at 'thought leaders') his assessment that he detected "in Scotland, a hint of Goebbels".
The World Jewish Congress claimed Dundee planned to "place a special sticker on products that are made in Israel".
European Jewish Congress President Moshe Kantor condemned Israeli products being "distinctively marked in Scotland. These acts are eerily reminiscent of darker times and perhaps there is a level of hatred that connects them".
Five years later, Kantor would hire Tony Blair, doubtless at vast expense, to head his European Council on Tolerance and Reconciliation to fight 'antisemitism'. This followed Blair's decision to stand down after making millions as a Middle East peace envoy.
"Swastika under the sporran"
Insane emails followed, one suggesting the Council might want to "appoint a guard to patrol around the library and his snarling trained Alsatian to sniff out any Jewish books written in Israel which may have slipped through the net and polluted the glorious and proud shelves of the Judenfrei library in West Dumbartonshire."
The story was a fabrication from start to finish.
Full story at Scottish Council firm against demented Zionist hysteria