Scottish PSC has been made aware of a statement by Mohammad Asif, Afghan Human Rights Foundation, that he was ‘verbally abused and physically assaulted & shove by an individual while I was marching for Palestine’ and that the ‘movement against the Israeli apartheid and anti racism does not belong to one individual or one organisation’.…
Scottish PSC Statement The Palestinian Nakba, ‘catastrophe’, is commemorated and marked as a day of resistance every year on the 15 May. Sandra White, Scottish National Party (SNP) MSP, submitted a motion to the Scottish Parliament to mark 72 years since 15 May 1948; the day after Zionist militias declared the establishment of their state…
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…
Continue Reading Statement: Richard Lyle should be suspended
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…
Continue Reading Statement: SPSC Withdrawal from Chester event
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…
Continue Reading Gaza motion to SNP Conference a huge disappointment
“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…
Continue Reading A fork in the road for anti-racists in Scotland