Statements

Scottish PSC Statement Richard Lyle is an Scottish National Party MSP and Deputy Convenor of the ‘Building Bridges with Israel’, an Israel lobby group that includes Israel’s Honorary Consul in Scotland, the Confederation of Friends of Israel Scotland and Christian Friends of Israel, set up specifically to attack the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) campaign…

31 October 2019 I called one of the organisers of a conference in Chester last night (Wednesday 6pm) to tell him I was withdrawing from the event after Gilad Atzmon was added late to the list of speakers. On Monday, I had posted on Facebook the images I intended to use for my presentation, intending…

The following is a motion being raised at the SNP Conference taking place in Aberdeen this weekend. Given Israel’s illegal occupation, settlement building, imprisonment, home demolitions, their ongoing policies of apartheid, and the killing and maiming of peaceful protestors, journalists and medics in Gaza, we are, to say the least, disappointed at the content of…

“When the Palestinians see themselves reflected in the struggles of the victims of racism around the world, how can we in the UK see the Palestinians as a divisive issue and exclude our struggle against racism from the struggle against state-enforced racism, i.e. apartheid, in Israel/Palestine that is backed by the UK government?” Mick NapierWest…

“Palestinians have situated their struggle, the BDS movement, as part of a wider struggle against racism. Week after week Israel’s crimes escalate, fuelled by racism and genocidal discourse so malevolent that even Israeli generals, prominent journalists and Holocaust survivors have spoken out about how Israeli society develop ever more marked features resembling 1930s European fascism…

On International Women’s Day Scottish PSC received the following message from Nelson Mandela’s daughter-in-law, Rayne Rose Mandela, and her daughter Nodiyala, Nelson Mandela’s granddaughter, from Eastern Cape.  Message, 8 March 2018: Greetings to those opposing racism in Scotland and around the world. The worldwide demonstrations on the anniversary of the Sharpeville massacre should oppose all…