Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign

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Police Suppression of Palestine Solidarity: A Threat to Our Democratic Rights

23 March 2025

Across Scotland, police forces are deploying aggressive and unjustifiable tactics to suppress solidarity actions with Palestine. From armed officers at peaceful protests to politically motivated arrests and the use of hate crime legislation to criminalise […]

Palestinian resistance inflicts strategic defeat on genocidal Israel

20 January 2025

Israel has suffered a strategic defeat at the hands of the Palestinian resistance that united every armed resistance group – a dramatic defeat for the vaunted Israeli military and a lesson for all Palestinians of […]

Condemn University of Aberdeen cancellation of Mandela

13 October 2024

Following the University of Aberdeen’s outrageous cancellation of Zwelivelile Mandela (tribal chief and grandson of Nelson Mandela) we will hold a protest on Elphinstone Lawn (outside Elphinstone Hall, University of Aberdeen), 6.30pm on Monday 14th […]

Mandla Mandela Visit to Britain Obstructed and Delayed

10 October 2024

Dismantling Israeli Apartheid StatementThe British government has delayed Zwelivelile ‘Mandla’ Mandela departure for Britain for a tour to discuss how we can learn the lessons of the South African anti-apartheid movement to dismantle Israeli apartheid. […]

Call to supporters of Palestinian rights: resistance to racism and fascism at home is part of our solidarity

8 August 2024

SPSC statement, 12 August 2024 The fascist thugs fire-bombing refugees, threatening communities and murder of asylum seekers and ‘foreigners’ are inspired by Israeli genocide and the ethno-supremacist state model it embodies. They are a threat […]

Barclays AGM protest: Genocide must not pay dividends

9 May 2024

Scottish PSC joined activists from across the UK today (May 9th, 2024) to protest Barclays AGM at the bank’s European HQ in Glasgow. Protestors from a range of groups, including climate action, anti-arms trade, and […]

Israel is waging war on the truth – Scottish PSC statement

8 May 2024

As Benjamin Netanyahu’s genocidal war on Gaza continues with impunity, the Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign is joining the global Palestine solidarity movement in condemning Israel’s execution of Palestinian media workers and systematic attacks on press […]

A Palestinian Prisoner’s Story

1 May 2024

Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign – Glasgow Branch Public MeetingFriday 17th May 7pmThe Ark, 70 Coplaw St G42 7JG The current Israeli Minister for prisons is Ben-Gvir, a murderous fascist who has called for Palestinian prisoners […]

Sold-out Glasgow leg of Yalla! Yalla! film show with Argentine director

3 April 2024

Last night’s Glasgow leg of SPSC film show and discussion with Argentinian film-maker Cristian Pirovano was sold-out. Great atmosphere and lead-in to the campaign to stop the Israel-Scotland women’s football game in Glasgow on the […]

Israel’s Road to Genocide

23 January 2024

Tom Suarez is also the author of State of Terror: How Terrorism Created Modern Israel

PROTEST Iraq War Criminal and Racist JNF Patron Gordon Brown

20 May 2023

PROTEST THIS WAR CRIMINALThur 1st June 6pmCentral HallTollcross EH3 9BPWar criminal Gordon Brown will be in Edinburgh on June 1st. Brown conspired with Blair to launch a criminal war that killed a million Iraqis. Their […]

Demonstration: Stop Israel’s crimes! Freedom For Palestine! End the Siege of Gaza!

11 May 2023

Demonstration Stop Israel’s crimes! Freedom For Palestine! End the Siege of Gaza! Assemble Saturday 13 May 1pmGlasgow at Deir Yasin Memorial, Kelvingrove Park G3 8AG for march to City CentreEdinburgh at Al Dawayma Memorial, Regent […]

Death of Khader Adnan, Palestinian political prisoner, hunger striker, and member of Palestinian Islamic Jihad

10 May 2023

In the early hours of 2 May, 2023, Khader Adnan, after 86 days on hunger strike, finally succumbed to the terrible torture on his body, and passed away, kept from his family and any humanitarian […]

Apartheid Israel commits a massacre in Jenin

26 January 2023

On January 26, 2023, heavily armed Israeli soldiers invaded Jenin Refugee Camp in the West Bank and killed at least nine people. A 60-year-old woman, recognized as Magda Obaid was among those who were killed. […]

2018: CAMPAIGN PRESSURED ARGENTINA TO CALL OFF GAME IN ISRAEL

20 December 2022

On 5th June, 2018, Israeli fans were “stunned” when the Argentine national football team cancelled their game with Israel due four days later. The game had been highly anticipated in Israel with tickets selling out […]

The Cost of Resistance to Israeli Savagery for One Family

21 November 2022

Mick Napier21 November 2022 Palestinians continue to resist against overwhelming odds – in besieged Gaza and besieged Nablus and Jenin and other besieged communities. Israel is formng a government that will include open advocates of […]

Shock Zionist U-turn at GTC Sutherland hearing

21 April 2022

I sat through three days of the General Teaching Council Scotland (GTCS) four-day fitness-to-teach hearing of the ex-Convenor of the Confederation of Friends of Israel Scotland (COFIS), Edward Sutherland, a religious affairs teacher at Bell […]

George Floyd and Iyad Hallak were both murdered, but…

4 June 2020

The United States, Democrats and Republicans, are responsible for funding, arming and supporting the Israeli state. Indeed American Police forces send their officers over to Israel for ‘training’. As Azadeh Shahshahani, Ilise Benshushan Cohen write […]

Articles in The National & The Ferret on Lothian Pension Fund Investments in Corrupt Israeli Bank Hapoalim

10 May 2020

Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign have been campaiging through Time to Divest for divestment from Israeli Bank Hapolaim for several years. Billy Briggs reports on the corruption scandal engulfing the Bank today in a story carried […]

Why the time is right for action to help Palestine

25 April 2018

“The failure of the UK Government, however, does not stop Scottish institutions, local authorities and others from taking inspiration from across the sea. Dublin City Council earlier this month endorsed the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions […]

Palestinian message to the Left + Gaza background and images

13 April 2018

Three important articles from Mondoweiss on Gaza 1. Contextualizing the Great March of Return by Haider Eid from Gaza2. Striking images from the last week of Gaza’s Great March of Return 3. The Gaza protests […]

Israel’s Security Industry & Hyper-surveillance in Scotland

27 November 2017

Scottish speaking tour SPSC believes its crucial not just to get angry at Israel’s ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people but to take effective, collective action based on an understanding of the forces at work […]

The anti-Zionist Bund led the Jewish Resistance in Poland – the Zionist Movement abandoned the Jews

8 May 2017

The anti-Zionist Bund led the Jewish Resistance in Poland – the Zionist Movement abandoned the JewsTony Greenstein8 May 2017 Zionism and Israel’s racist rulers have created a series of myths about how the only Jewish […]

Most aid intended for Palestinians ends up in Israeli hands

27 August 2016

Study: At least 78% of humanitarian aid intended for Palestinians ends up in Israeli coffers Shir Hever, an Israeli economist who has spent years piecing together the murky economics of the occupation, recently published a […]

Tariq Ali: Notes on anti-Semitism, Zionism and Palestine

3 May 2016

By Tariq Ali / 28 April 2016 The past few months have seen voices raised from within the media and Westminster establishment concerning the supposed culture of anti-semitism nurtured under the leadership of Jeremy Corbyn. […]

US State Department intervened to defeat grass-roots Scottish boycott effort…and failed

9 August 2015

According to the front page headline in the Scotsman of Saturday 8 August 2015, Hilary Clinton weighed into Edinburgh film festival row, the court-mandated publication of her emails from 2009 reveal that the US Secretary […]

Scottish Government & Israel/Palestine – an updated chronology

12 August 2014

“Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable”. George Orwell The Scottish Government’s positions on Israel/Palestine are in flux, responding to pressures from a furious public opinion as well as the […]

Argentine dictator Jorge Rafael Videla greets fellow South American strongman Augusto Pinochet

Anti-semitic Argentine butchers worked closely with Israel

22 May 2013

Videla reserved special treatment for Jews, and among those kidnapped there were approximately 1300 Jews, significantly higher than their share of the population. They also received special treatment in terms of torture. There is a […]

SPSC Edinburgh members leaflet General Assembly delegates, 23 May 2013

Church of Scotland General Assembly slams Israeli apartheid and land theft – suggests BDS needed

17 May 2013

The Inheritance of Abraham? A report on the ‘promised land’ is a ground-breaking report by the Church and Society Council that was overwhelmingly agreed this weekend at the annual General Assembly of the Church of […]

Settler Colonial Studies, Vol 2 No 1 (2012)

Settler Colonialism in Palestine.

2 August 2011

Settler Colonialism and the State of Exception: The Example of Palestine / Israel David Lloyd, University of Southern California “This paper argues that these apparent contradictions…can best be explained by understanding Israel’s occupation of Palestine […]