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.
14 July
SPSC MEMBERS CLEARED OF ALL RACISM CHARGES
On this day in 2017, in Glasgow Sheriff Court 17, Sheriff Barry Divers ended a three year legal process by dismissing charges of racism against SPSC members Mick Napier and Jim Watson. The seven members of the pro-Israel lobby in the courtroom were dismayed. The Crown case rested on the bizarre claim that a blood symbol on an SPSC placard in summer 2014 representing the 2,200 Palestinians recently massacred in Gaza actually referred to a medieval myth of Jews drinking the blood of Christian children.
تبرئة أعضاء حملة التضامن الاسكتلندي مع فلسطين من جميع تُهم العنصرية
14 يوليو
في مثل هذا اليوم من عام 2017 ، في محكمة شريف غلاسكو 17 ، أنهى الشريف باري دايفرز إجراءات قانونية مدتها ثلاث سنوات وذلك برفض تهم العنصرية ضد أعضاء SPSC ميك نابير وجيم واتسون. أصيب أعضاء اللوبي السبعة المؤيدون لإسرائيل في قاعة المحكمة بالفزع. استندت قضية الأدعاء باسم التاج إلى الأقتراح الغريب بأن رمز الدم على لافتة SPSC في صيف 2014 والذي يمثل قتل 2200 فلسطيني مؤخرًا في غزة يشير بالفعل إلى أسطورة من العصور الوسطى التي تتهم اليهود بشرب دم الأطفال المسيحيين
The seven members of the Glasgow pro-Israel lobby sitting in the courtroom, a larger delegation than the usual two or three that attended every session of the near three-year legal process, were clearly very disappointed. They had hoped the intense lobbying of Scottish legal officials that had led to the absurd ‘racism’ charges being raised in the first place would lead to convictions that would deter others from supporting Palestinian rights.
The PF had been adamant three years earlier that the racism charges must proceed, so much so that he had rejected the defence offer made to save everybody’s time and accept a guilty plea to the minor aggravated trespass charges on condition that he dropped the ‘racial aggravation’ element. The offer was spurned; the main aim as far as he and the Zionists were concerned was to join in the international effort by pro-Israel elements to smear Palestine solidarity activism as racist.
The latest defeat in Glasgow Sheriff Court for Zionist efforts to criminalise peaceful BDS campaigning and to silence opposition to the human rights violations of the State of Israel followed fast on the heels of the Queen’s Bench Division of the High Court of Justice ruling against the UK Government efforts to prevent local councils boycotting Israel.