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.
24 June
"EVERY SCHEDULED EVENT WILL BE DISRUPTED"
24 JUNE On this day in 2012, Israeli daily, Haaretz, reported an Israeli diplomat feeling that "Every appearance by an official Israeli representative in Scotland is like a visit to enemy territory.” Haaretz noted that “Every scheduled event in Scotland involving an official or even semi-official Israeli figure will be disrupted by demonstrators”. One respondent told the journalist, “It's getting more and more difficult to be supportive of Israel, especially since two of my sons moved there. I just can't understand why they do those things."
"سيتم تعطيل كل المناسبات المدرجة"
24يونيو
Ishmael Khaldi, Israeli government adviser to racist Avigdor Lieberman, later an Israeli Prime Minister, was prevented from promoting his racist propaganda at Edinburgh University on 2 Feb 2011. His speech had had to be clandestinely scheduled at the last minute for fear of attracting protest, and justifiably. As soon as he began his speech, entitled "Is Israel a racist state", around 50 of the 70 or so present rose from their seats and made their way to the stage.
Students made it clear that with over 60 years of Israel boycotting the human and national rights of the Palestinians, Israeli apologists did not deserve the right to free speech that they denied the Palestinians.
Ishmael Khaldi was later quietly posted to Scotland for a period to combat the BDS campaign here, and was then shunted around the USA as an example of Israeli democracy. Back in Israel, security guards feel able to assault any Palestinian and a few days ago an Israeli uniformed leg descended "on Khaldi's neck, shoulder, and ear. He said the pressure was so strong he feared his neck would break." Despite his collaboration with the Israeli regime, his home village can't even get a road or other services that are routine for Jewish communities.
Why an Arab-Israeli diplomat's assault is no surprise - Israel subjugates its Palestinian citizens while being too eager to showcase their successes in order to portray itself as a western-style democracy
Any collaborator in an ethnic supremacist state is in a pemanently tense situation. Khaldi admitted that “a colleague in the ministry and others in Israel hate Arabs and Muslims more than anti-Semites hate Jews,” according to the Jerusalem Post. He’s also been behind a long running campaign for an important access road to his village to be paved. It says something profound about Zionism that one of Israel’s most high profile Arab collaborators can’t even get a modern road into his own village.
Survey of some successes of the BDS movement in Scotland by Asa Winstanley
We must do better, but in the words of a few of our enemies...
"There is a need to counter the growing truculence of anti-Israel groups and the volume of media antipathy and inaccurate reporting...comment and letters in Scottish newspapers in the principal cities are monitored as are the activities of the Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign." Israeli Embassy in London
Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign [is] one of the main sources of anti-Israeli action...disturbing…activities of a vociferous anti-Israel body [that] lie behind an “upsurge in anti-Israel content in the media” in Scotland. Ezra Golombok, Israeli Information Office, Scotland
“…Scotland has witnessed a noticeable public anti-Israel sentiment, prominently driven by the Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign…” Scottish Friends of Israel website
Protest drove apartheid apologist, Israeli diplomat Ishmael Khaldi, out of Edinburgh University
https://youtu.be/k7ZznKXpwnM