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Call to support refugees and oppose the racist SDL on Oct 3rd in Edinburgh
Fighting against Zionism and other White supremacism: Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign calls on supporters of Palestinian freedom to support all refugee rights, and to protest against the racist SDL (Scottish Defence League) in Edinburgh on Saturday October 3rd (Mound 1pm), against their efforts to whip up hatred against refugees. SPSC opposition to the racist project of Zionism is part of…
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Israeli State's continuing boycott efforts - this time a fail
Israel launches a culture warYvonne RidleyFriday, 28 August 2015 While Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is determined to scupper the historic nuclear deal with Iran, his Culture and Sports Minister, Miri Regev, has opened up a second front by targeting a state-run European opera company. The Tel Aviv minister has become embroiled in a culture war to try to block a landmark concert from…
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Middle East Monitor's evaluation of SPSC - an opinion we need to live up to
Scottish activists lead the way on BDS Asa WinstanleyMiddle East Monitor28 August 2015 The SPSC stated succinctly its reasons for this act of cultural boycott in a press release: "There can be no normality for Israel until it ends the crimes against the Palestinian people. This show must not go on."These Scottish boycott actions have been carried out in line with the guidelines drawn up by the…
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Haaretz asks: Israelis scarce at Edinburgh Fringe - because of BDS?
Israelis are but a Walking Shadow at This Year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe by Yair AshkeenaziHaaretz 27 August 2015 "...all the artists who spoke to Haaretz said the BDS protests were aimed solely at works or troupes supported by the Israeli government, not at Israeli creators and actors specifically. Thus, they noted, though there are no Israeli productions at Edinburgh this year, several actors…
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Palestinian rights campaigners respond to “hypocritical” Festival chiefs
MEDIA RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE USE Scots campaigning for Palestinian rights have responded to “hypocritical”comments by Fergus Linehan, the new director of the Edinburgh International Festival, and his predecessor Jonathan Mills. Last week Linehan and Mills spoke out against Palestine solidarity actions over recent years that have disrupted and closed down Israel-state endorsed events during…
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US State Department intervened to defeat grass-roots Scottish boycott effort...and failed
According to the front page headline in the Scotsman of Saturday 8 August 2015, Hillary Clinton weighed into Edinburgh film festival row, the court-mandated publication of her emails from 2009 reveal that the US Secretary of State worked from Washington to mobilise support against an SPSC boycott initiative, while Hollywood film makers were being asked to boycott the Edinburgh International Film…
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Settler Colonialism in Palestine.
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 as an exemplary settler colonial project whose contradictions are embedded in the early framing of Zionism and whose unfolding follows a logic…
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Al Hiwar TV interview: Israel's weaknesses, the growing BDS Campaign and what happened in Cairo in New Year 2011
Mick Napier, Scottish PSC founder member and SPSC Vice-Chair Yvonne Ridley in wide-ranging dscussion with Anas Takriti on Al Hiwar's English-language weekly programme. View here or here.
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States come and go - it's people who are important
"The state formation that will follow the defeat of the Zionist programme of ethnic cleansing and mass killings is not for us to decide. The commitment to full human rights for Palestinians alongside Jews and to the dismantling of the structures of Jewish supremacy throughout Israel/Palestine is enough to guide a campaign of solidarity through the challenges we will face, including attacks from…
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These paranoids have nuclear weapons, courtesy of the West
Vatican teaching Hezbollah how to kill Jews, says pamphlet for IDF troopsBy Ofri Ilani, Haaretz 31 July 2009The Pope and the cardinals of the Vatican help organize tours of Auschwitz for Hezbollah members to teach them how to wipe out Jews, according to a booklet being distributed to Israel Defense Forces soldiers. Officials encouraging the booklet's distribution include senior officers, such as…
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Electronic Intifada
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Interfaith bullying with a dose of racism
Interfaith bullying with a dose of racism
Donald Wagner25 September 2015Campaign against Black pastor is latest attempt to silence solidarity with Palestine in the US.
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Israel's assaults on Palestinian education amount to genocide
Israel's assaults on Palestinian education amount to genocide
Nada Elia and Rima Najjar25 September 2015American media’s coverage of the strikes by Palestinian Christian schools fails to acknowledge that Israel is a racist state.
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Gas deal would make Jordan donor to Israeli apartheid
Gas deal would make Jordan donor to Israeli apartheid
Juman AsmailAmman24 September 2015Jordan should ditch planned funding of Israeli apartheid and focus on solar power, say campaigners.
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Reykjavík wasn't ready for "brutal" Zionist backlash, says Israel boycott author
Reykjavík wasn't ready for "brutal" Zionist backlash, says Israel boycott author
Ali Abunimah24 September 2015But Björk Vilhelmsdóttir sees a silver lining in controversy over shortlived Israel boycott by Iceland’s capital.
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Sisi destroys thousands of Egyptian homes in anti-Palestinian campaign
Sisi destroys thousands of Egyptian homes in anti-Palestinian campaign
Ali Abunimah24 September 2015Protecting Israel appears to be main motive for Egypt’s mass demolition of homes near Gaza border.
Created on: Sep 24, 2015
Sep 24, 2015
Mondoweiss
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Palestinian shot by Israeli forces near Nablus last week dies from injuries
Palestinian shot by Israeli forces near Nablus last week dies from injuries
A Palestinian shot and critically injured by Israeli forces at a military checkpoint in eastern Nablus last week died from his wounds on Thursday, medics said.
Created on: Sep 26, 2015
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Israel’s UN amb. called for annexing West Bank, tries to delete evidence
Israel’s UN amb. called for annexing West Bank, tries to delete evidence
Danny Danon, Israel's new ambassador to the United Nations, boasted on his official Facebook page on April 27, 2011 that he was proposing legislation that would have the Israeli government "annex the West Bank and repeal the Oslo Accords." The Facebook post was deleted sometime on or after August 28, 2015—after Netanyahu had appointed him Israel's ambassador to the UN. While he can delete past Facebook posts, there is some evidence Danon's radical right-wing politics that he cannot expunge.
Created on: Sep 25, 2015
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Amnesty: Killing of Hadeel al-Hashlamoun was ‘extrajudicial execution’
Amnesty: Killing of Hadeel al-Hashlamoun was ‘extrajudicial execution’
The leading human rights organization Amnesty International says the killing of the 18-year-0ld Palestinian Hadeel al-Hashlamoun three days ago by Israeli soldiers was an "extrajudicial execution."
Created on: Sep 25, 2015
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It was heroic to throw a brick at Stonewall but Palestinians who throw stones can be shot
It was heroic to throw a brick at Stonewall but Palestinians who throw stones can be shot
According to National Public Radio it's one thing to throw a brick against oppression 36 years ago in New York City and another to throw a stone today against oppression in Palestine.
Created on: Sep 25, 2015
Sep 25, 2015
BDSmovement
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UN faces pressure over contracts with G4S
UN faces pressure over contracts with G4S
G4S is a British private security company that acts as a key contractor for Israel’s apartheid regime, providing services and equipment to the police force and prison service, as well as military checkpoints and settlements in the occupied West Bank
Created on: Sep 24, 2015
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Iceland’s capital adopts Israeli goods boycott
Iceland’s capital adopts Israeli goods boycott
The motion states that Reykjavík will boycott “as long as the occupation of Palestinian territories continues.”
Created on: Sep 18, 2015
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EU-US trade deal mustn’t stifle calls for Israel boycott, say unions
EU-US trade deal mustn’t stifle calls for Israel boycott, say unions
More than 150 organizations from across Europe are vowing to resist efforts by the United States to stifle campaigns for Palestinian rights by means of the controversial TTIP trade deal
Created on: Sep 13, 2015
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Tell Kanye West: Don’t be ‘heartless’
Tell Kanye West: Don’t be ‘heartless’
Hundreds of other cultural workers have endorsed the U.S. Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel
Created on: Sep 10, 2015
Sep 10, 2015
Building effective solidarity with the Palestinian people
Scottish PSC is an extension to the Palestinian struggle for freedom against Israel's programme of ethnic cleansing and genocide in Palestine. Scottish PSC exists to channel public opposition to the Zionist settler colonial project into an effective and dynamic Scottish component of the global campaign that sends a powerful message of solidarity to the Palestinian people and a warning to Israel that its crimes must end.