Right to BDS

The UK Government plans to criminalise the adoption of BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) policies by local authorities, health boards and student unions. It will act directly "against organisations that impose boycotts" and it will encourage "others to take such bodies to court”. Tories echo the dishonest Zionist claim that BDS campaigning against Israeli apartheid leads to "anti-semitism”.

Israel no longer dismisses the international BDS campaign, viewing us as a “strategic threat”. The Government attacks mean that solidarity with the Palestinian people is now linked to our right to oppose the crimes of Government.

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Scottish Parliament Election 2021 - Right to BDS

Right to BDS

Scottish PSC has written to candidates in the 2021 Holyrood elections asking them to assert the ‘Right to BDS’, in other words, the right of public institutions, organisations and…

UCU Scotland votes to defend Professor David Miller and rejects IHRA

Right to BDS

Scottish PSC welcomes the overwhelming votes by University and College Union (UCU) Scotland Congress to pass motions to defend Professor David Miller and to reject the discredited…

SPSC Stands with David Miller

Right to BDS

Scottish PSC expresses its full support for David Miller, currently Professor of Sociology at Bristol University and with previous posts at Strathclyde and Stirling universities.…

Right to BDS - Scottish Parliament Petition

Right to BDS

On Thursday 10th September the Petitions Committee of the Scottish Parliament will consider SPSC’s petition to defend the right to BDS. We want the Scottish government to state…

MP made to undergo dubious re-education on 'anti-semitism'

'Anti-Semitism'

Gidley identifies one of the five main anti-semitic themes he has uncovered as "variations on the historic blood libel" whereby Jews in Medieval Europe were massacred following…

Corbyn's Twitter feed attacks cartoonist Carlos Latuff

'Anti-Semitism'

Latuff is a cartoonist who calls out the crimes of the State of Israel and its apologists everywhere. His cartoons are sharp and clear and make perfect sense. Sadly, Jeremy…

Questions to First Minister on opposing Islamophobia

Free Speech on Palestine

The Scottish First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, is the keynote speaker at an event in Glasgow on Saturday; "Question Time - Challenging Racism & Islamophobia With The First…

The IHRA definition and the racist State of Israel

Free Speech on Palestine

Regardless of who endorses the IHRA definition of antisemitism, Israel is a racist state. Massacre and ethnic cleansing of the native Palestinian people birthed the State of…

Support Palestine - Stand Up to All Racism

'Anti-Semitism'

UPDATE as of Friday morning 16 March We need a victory of courage over fear - as Palestinians show every day The depraved racist views of COFIS (Confederation of Friends of Israel…

Three submissions to 'Review' but no submission to attacks on free speech

Legal attacks

Update 29 January 2018 Lord Bracadale is expected to publish his report and recommendations in Spring 2018. The Hate Crime Legislation Review group has not yet published the…

The Fight Goes On: Resisting the attack on support for Palestine

Legal attacks

On Monday, 11th Sept, at Aberdeen Sheriff Court, Sheriff Charlotte Coutts found SPSC member Ally Coutts (no relation) guilty of ‘acting in a racially aggravated manner with intent…

Tomorrow - Tuesday 27/07/17 - is final day of 'racism' trial of SPSC members for BDS activities

Legal attacks

After four days of evidence and cross-examinations earlier this month, a trial enters its final moments tomorrow of two members of SPSC on charges of 'racism'. The two stand…

Revealed: Lies & Sinister Tactics of the Israel Lobby in Scotland

Free Speech on Palestine

Last month’s Al Jazeera exposé The Lobby revealed the length supporters of Israel are going to in their attempts to suppress free speech on Palestine and BDS (the Palestinian-led…

Media Release: Public enquiry needed into Israeli Embassy black-ops

Free Speech on Palestine

Media Release: Public enquiry needed into Israeli embassy black-opsSunday 8th January 2017 [Image left: Israeli Ambassador Mark Regev meeting with SNP MPs at Westminster, October…

BBC's statistics programme demolished Zionist antisemitism claims

Free Speech on Palestine

BBC Radio 4's weekly statistics programme took 10 minutes in January 2015 to examine and demolish absurd Zionist claims that massively exaggerated popular antisemitism in the UK…

Aberdeen City Council robustly defends freedom to boycott Apartheid

Right to BDS

In a victory for free speech and democracy, December 14th saw a significant defeat for forces attempting to silence criticism of Israel , as a motion raised by Councillors Greig…

ALERT: all-party attack on free speech for Palestine

Free Speech on Palestine

A report published today by the all-party Home Affairs Select Committee unanimously recommends limits on political free speech. The six Tory MPs, three New Labour and one SNP are…

Stewart McDonald MP sings the Israeli Embassy song

Right to BDS

"Ten years earlier most of the main SNP leaders signed a motion in the Scottish Parliament to send “an important message to the Palestinian people expressing Scotland’s disgust at…

Scoreboard: SPSC 4 - 0 ScottishPFs (with two 'games' to go)

'Anti-Semitism'

"...in May 2010 then-First Minister Alex Salmond rightly attacked the idea that Scottish Jews "should be judged or affected by the policies of Israel. The Jewish community is not…

Israeli anti-BDS "threats to lives of activists"

Right to BDS

Defamation, harassment and threats - the risk in "special operations" against BDSYossi Melman, Maariv(Key points translated by Ofer Neiman) The ministry is divided into three…

Zionist censorship & mobilisation for Edinburgh Fringe

Free Speech on Palestine

The pro-Israel gang are working across the UK to support their one-day effort during the Edinburgh Fringe to openly promote the apartheid State of Israel as a beacon of tolerance.…

Is it Anti-Semitic to Criticize and Boycott Israel?

Free Speech on Palestine

"...nowadays legislatures in Europe and North America condemn and occasionally outlaw peaceful boycott of Israel (BDS) as anti-Semitic. In doing so they explicitly link Jews of…

Palestinians and their supporters will not be silenced by Zionist-inspired accusations of 'anti-semitism'

Free Speech on Palestine

Recent weeks have seen a corrdinated series ofattacks on supporters of Palestinian freedom as supposedly 'anti-semitic'. Political positions both serious and whimsical, but not…

How Israel lobby manufactured UK Labour Party’s anti-Semitism crisis

Free Speech on Palestine

Asa Winstanley The Electronic Intifada 28 April 2016 Last year, socialist stalwart Jeremy Corbyn won the leadership of the UK’s Labour Party by a landslide. Since then, there has…

Support Scottish activists on 'racially aggravated' charges for protesting Israeli Dead Sea cosmetics thieves

Legal attacks

Support two SPSC members - Jim Watson and - I, on trial for 'racism' on Wednesday April 27th and Friday April 29th in Court 10 of Glasgow Sheriff Court. The effort by Zionists and…

British police guidance equates anti-Zionism with ‘new anti-Semitism’

Free Speech on Palestine

The College of Policing, a body which sets standards for police in England and Wales, is being urged to revise its guidance on hate crime, which equates anti-Zionism with “a new…

Israel is warring on the Palestinians...and on us. Enlist in the "enemy forces" today!

Right to BDS

Massacre and ethnic cleansing are popular with Jewish Israelis Pew Research Centre reports today (8 March 2016) that "nearly half of Israeli Jews say Arabs should be expelled or…

Government attack on BDS

Right to BDS

Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign16 February 2016 The UK Government plans to criminalise the adoption of BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) policies by local…

Anti-Palestinian racism, Islamophobia and allegation of anti-Jewish racism

Free Speech on Palestine

In the June 2001 issue of the Edinburgh Star, ‘Journal of the Edinburgh Jewish Community’, available in Edinburgh Central Library, Esti Sheinberg wrote that, ’The Jewish passion…

Pro-Israel organisations and Crown on the defensive as Sheriff throws out charge against Palestine campaigner

Legal attacks

3 February 2016, Kilmarnock Sheriff Court Sheriff Watson dismissed a charge of assault against Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign (Scottish PSC) member Mick Napier today…

Supporters of Israeli mass murder are hurt by criticism - claim 'anti-semitism' yet again

Free Speech on Palestine

In a carefully chosen legal ruling that supporters of Israeli ethnic cleansing and massacre need to reflect on before bleating about the anger they arouse for their political…

BDS and Normalisation

Right to BDS

Scottish PSC Statement, 17 November 2015 Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign (SPSC) has been committed to campaigning for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) of Israel…

SPSC statement on recent moves to criminalise pro-Palestine political ideas

Free Speech on Palestine

"Our struggle against the massacres of Palestinians is conducted by exclusively peaceful means but it must be a struggle, a determined struggle, against a well-resourced and…

Israeli State's continuing boycott efforts - this time a fail

Right to BDS

Israel launches a culture warYvonne RidleyFriday, 28 August 2015 While Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is determined to scupper the historic nuclear deal with Iran, his…

Haaretz asks: Israelis scarce at Edinburgh Fringe - because of BDS?

Right to BDS

Israelis are but a Walking Shadow at This Year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe by Yair AshkeenaziHaaretz 27 August 2015 "...all the artists who spoke to Haaretz said the BDS protests…

4 reasons the “anti-Semitism” attacks on Jeremy Corbyn are dishonest

Smears

It was inevitable, shocking but not surprising. A determined opponent of all racism, Jeremy Corbyn is smeared by pro-Israel Blairites and the same pro-Israel media that helped…

The BDS campaign, occupation, apartheid and settler colonialism

Right to BDS

The template was the settlement of Ulster centuries earlier in Britain’s oldest colony. The colonial power granted privileges to colonists who naturally incurred the hatred of the…

Scottish City Councils flew Palestinian flag (for 24 hours) during Israeli massacre, while investing in weapons used for the massacre

Right to BDS

Investments "include the world’s largest military contractor, Lockheed Martin, which makes Trident nuclear missiles, cluster bombs and F-16 fighter jets. The fund also has…

SPSC fights smears of 'anti-semitism' as part of campaign for Palestinian freedom

Free Speech on Palestine

As the mass murder in Palestine continues, pro-Israel campaigners are reluctant to discuss what's going on in Israel/Palestine. They much prefer to change the subject, away from…

Scottish Zionist claims of anti-semitism get weirder

Smears

"One constant of political Zionism is the smearing of their victims, the mantra that Palestinian resistance to Israeli ethnic cleansing means wanting to "drive the Jews into the…

Closing down free expression for Palestine

Criminalisation

A Celtic fan was ejected and threatened with arrest at Tynecastle after Celtic officials raised an objection to the tee-shirt he was wearing, which said 'Free Palestine' on the…

Show your support for BDS

Criminalisation

UPDATE Mick Napier was arrested on Saturday (20th) night at this home for allegedly breaching his bail conditions. Following his arrest on 13 September, Mick along with another…

Another 'Project Fear' attacks Scottish civil society as anti-semitic and urges Scottish Jews to leave for Israel/Palestine

'Anti-Semitism'

It is an axiom of political Zionism that Jews cannot live safely anywhere outside Israel and those who do so are inferior to those who emigrate to Israel (olim) to take part in…

Zionists attempt to criminalise support for BDS

Legal attacks

Professor Jake Lynch of Sydney University is the subject of legal proceedings initiated by an Israel-based organisation using allegations of racism in an attempt to criminalise…

Israeli Embassy involved in legal attack on UNISON for its support for Palestine

Criminalisation

There is no doubt that Lt. Col. Cristal sees himself in the front line of an attack on the political positions of all UK trade unions and even solidarity with Palestine generally.…

Scottish solidarity with French BDS activists

Criminalisation

Scottish PSC endorses statement of solidarity with French campaigners facing trial for BDS actions, members and branches send photo messages of solidarity. More than 150…

Correspondence between SPSC and Jerusalem Post

Smears

"It is another matter altogether, a matter of very poor journalism, to ignore the views of the St Andrews police, the Hotel which cancelled the fundraiser, and the clear statement…

Fraser v UCU: Zionists legal attack repulsed and attackers routed

Legal attacks

Ten complaints of "antisemitic" harassment were brought by a UCU member, Ronnie Fraser, who is Director of Academic Friends of Israel and fights the union's policy of support for…

Israeli diplomat: "Every appearance by an official Israeli representative in Scotland is like a visit to enemy territory"

'Anti-Semitism'

Does Scotland manage to be anti-Israel without being anti-Semitic?Anshel Pfeffer in Glasgow Haaretz 2 November 2012 No one I spoke to there seems to have ever personally…

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