University of Glasgow SRC Motion

Motion before the University of Glasgow Student Representative Council on Thursday 17 January 2008:

"This SRC notes that Mordechai Vanunu:

1. has made a huge contribution to the cause of removing nclear weapons from the Middle East

2. remains the elected Rector of Glasgow University’s students

3. was kidnapped from Rome and incarcerated for 18 years in prison in Israel in 2004 following his revelations about Israel’s nuclear weapons programme

4. was held in solitary confinement for more than 11 years

5. remains subject to severe travel restrictions within Israel/Palestine

6. has been sentenced to a further six months in prison for ‘speaking to foreigners’ including many Scots

This SRC demands that the Israeli government release Vanunu immediately to come to Scotland.

This SRC resolves to campaign vigorously to secure Vanunu’s release from Israeli detention. To this end we will:

- inform GU students of Vanunu’s record and current situation through posters, newspaper articles, campus meetings, etc

- organise a delegation to meet with Vanunu in Israel, either in prison or in Jerusalem, and approach the university authorities, MPs and others to participate

- organise a delegation to meet with officials of the Scottish government to ask them to pressure the Israeli Government to lift all restrictions on Mordechai Vanunu and allow him the freedom to travel

- organise a Scottish conference at Glasgow University to support Vanunu’s right to come to Scotland

- approach others to jointly organise an international conference at Glasgow University to support Vanunu and other whistleblowers

- extend an invitation to a spokeperson for the Israeli Embassy to come to Glasgow University to defend Israel’s continuing detention and fresh sentencing of Vanunu"