27 March 2024
Every day further reveals the murderous savagery of the Israeli State and society, a country that as long as it lasts will be associated with barbaric cruelty and mass child killing.
Israel's NATO enablers are now increasingly isolated worldwide, even from their own populations. The Zionist movement and its state will never recover.
Israel faces what the ICJ concluded is a "plausible" charge of genocide. We can all see the ongoing "acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national group" as defined by the Genocide Convention.
The UK Government is a genocide enabler, not for the first time. It now bombs Yemen, which is acting in line with the core section of the Genocide Convention that obligates state parties to take action to prevent or end genocide, in this case being committed by Israel.
Colonialism and dispossession are always based on potentially genocidal violence.
The outcome in anti-colonial struggles, from Algeria to Indochina to Palestine, does not go to the mass executioners but to a people who can survive intense violence and persist in their struggle for freedom. By any calculus that will be the Palestinian people rather than the settler-colonial project backed by the US and every NATO member.
We have work to do to intensify and channel public opinion on politicians to name, condemn and take practical measures against genocidal Israel, e.g. follow Barcelona and other city councils in breaking all links with the genocidal state.
We must campaign for bodies to endorse the Scottish Government call for an arms embargo against Israel. We must support those taking action against arms companies that facilitate Israeli genocide.
Local authority councils and universities need to feel public pressure to divest from companies facilitating the genocide and to dump the discredited IHRA pseudo-definition of antisemitism which is used to protect Israel from accusations of genocide, the ultimate racist crime.
We need to campaign against the disgraceful silencing of schoolchildren who attempt to follow up activities in support of Ukrainian refugees with similar for Palestinians.
We now see with shocking clarity how high will be the human cost for Palestinians to win their freedom - we can reduce that cost by constituting ourselves as an extension to the Palestinian struggle for freedom, working to boycott and isolate everything related to the Israeli state and its supporters.
Our focus must be to oppose all and any attempt to normalise with the apartheid and genocidal state of Israel.
SPSC has a programme of campaigns and initiatives to take this work forward, and we need your help. Here’s what you can do:
- Join SPSC
- Donate and/or fundraise for SPSC
- Support / volunteer / become an organiser in these campaigns and areas of work:
- Barclays Bank
- Eurovision 2024
- Supermarkets: Don’t Buy into Genocide
- Stop the JNF and the Plant a Tree in Palestine project
- Journalists for Palestine
- Apartheid Free Zones
- Cultural boycott
- Sports boycott
- Time to Divest
- Arms companies
- Trade union solidarity
- Pressure elected representatives and Councils
We invite you to an online meeting to discuss this statement, the way forward for Palestine solidarity, and how we can work together here in Scotland to boycott and isolate the state of Israel.
REGISTER HERE: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEqf-msrj0rEtdpR8xdPQy9u7CQcjwBVTaE
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