March 02, 2019
in Corporate
by Mick Napier
Dear Palestine supporter Please read and send the March email to your Councillors regarding your local authority pension fund investments that facilitate Israel's crimes against the Palestinian people. We are already making a difference. You can join in and…
February 27, 2019
in Zionism
by Mick Napier
Stand Up To Racism Scotland have created the conditions where COFIS, an extreme racist campaigning organisation, is publicly mobilising for the anti-racist march on March 16th, confident in the knowledge that the organisers will hold their noses and that…
February 07, 2019
in Corporate
by Mick Napier
"Israel's strategy involves "dirty tricks" against its clear opponents; on the other hand "In defending Israel, new strategy calls for embracing critics...as a counter to the hardcore" BDS campaigners. Thus the Friends of Israel seemingly successful effort to…
Feb 05, 2019
in Rise and rise of the fascist right
GFI and SUTR Dear SUTR Last year Glasgow Friends of Israel (GFI) and Confederation of Friends of Israel Scotland (COFIS) joined the Stand Up To Racism organised march in Glasgow. This demonstrates incredible audacity considering their sole purpose is to…
Feb 05, 2019
in Friends of Israel
"To be crystal clear: the objection from SPSC and many others is not to the presence of any individuals in an anti-racist march - it is to the acceptance of banners and flags celebrating the genocidal violence of the Israeli state. While SUTR will undoubtedly…
Jan 29, 2019
in The extreme right
Sammy Stein is a man who frolics in excrement and then flicks a speck of dirt off his nose. He works on behalf of the Israeli Embassy to defend Israeli mass murder, torture, sexual abuse of Palestinian women and children and every manner of Israeli crime.…
Jan 20, 2019
in From anti-Semites
How can a degenerate group such as COFIS be endorsed by Nicola Sturgeon and a Scottish Labour Party leader? Support for the ongoing massacre of Palestinians - the shooting dead of 200 British citizens or Israeli Jews would qualify as a massacre - has not been…
Jan 16, 2019
in On campus
"If the university continues down this route of trying to impose extensive surveillance and to control free speech on Palestine there will be a very public campaign to defend our rights. Widespread public opinion is in solidarity with Palestine - and that…
Dec 28, 2018
in Middle East
Solidarity should be repaid to those who provide it without any thought for themselves. Standing up for justice here in the UK involves no significant risk or cost - but it is a different matter for Palestinians. And for their supporters living under harsh…
Dec 04, 2018
in Churches
Like their Muslim neighbours, Christians in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip are denied basic religious freedoms. They are routinely prohibited from traveling very short distances to worship in one of the most holy sites in Christianity — the Church of the…
Nov 16, 2018
in From anti-Semites
Katie Hopkins backs up the Pittsburgh murderer - Jews are Responsible for using refugees to undermine the White nations "There is nothing that Katie Hopkins said that has not been said every day by Israeli politicians.For those interested there is a…
Nov 13, 2018
in Fact Sheets
Why are Israel and extreme right, antisemitic forces in a mutual embrace? The first visit by Brazil’s new fascist leader is to Israel. Israel is defying the pleas of the local Jewish community to court the government of Hungary, even while Prime Minister…
Oct 22, 2018
in Middle East
The Israeli State was birthed in barbaric ethnic cleansing, and perfects its means of violence, including the use of death squads, against a dispossessed and angry captive Palestinian population. Israel has long marketted and sold the dark skills consequent…
Oct 21, 2018
in Zionism
A report in today's Herald on Sunday is entitled Diversity training for Jewish lawyer who called pro-Palestinian campaigners 'scummy racists'. It reports that Glasgow Friends of Israel activist Matthew Berlow, who is also a criminal lawyer, has been fined and…
Oct 10, 2018
in Tories and New Labour
"Pro-war, pro-Israel Margaret Hodge accuses supporters of Palestine in the Labour Party of bringing that party into disrepute. Her own disgraceful cover up of child abuse as leader of Islington Council, her abuse of the victims for which she was finally…
Sep 16, 2018
in Resistance
Palestinians are Sounding the Alarm about Bulldozing the Entire Village of Khan Al-Ahmar, Occupied East Jerusalem The Bedouin community of Khan Al-Ahmar awaits the imminent demolition of their houses after the Israeli Supreme Court rejected their appeals By…
Sep 05, 2018
in Free Speech on Palestine
Regardless of who endorses the IHRA definition of antisemitism, Israel is a racist state. Massacre and ethnic cleansing of the native Palestinian people birthed the State of Israel and those running the state have found it difficult to break the habit. Israel…
Aug 19, 2018
in State terror
In a report on Wednesday (15th August 2018), the Israeli army cleared itself of all wrongdoing and said it would not prosecute commanders who massacred 135 Palestinians and shattered large parts of Rafah in an attack on August 1, 2014, in a response to…
Aug 17, 2018
in Football
The Herald 17 August 2018 SCOTTISH football's governing body has rejected calls for the national team to boycott forthcoming matches against Israel. Nearly 3000 have backed a campaign to have Scotland withdraw from fixtures against Israel away on October 11…
Aug 16, 2018
in Stop the JNF
A huge variety of approaches have been taken by the Labour right, Tories, and the pro-Israel groups to smear Corbyn as hostile to Jews. They have scoured social media posts for many years and attendances at small meetings in countless community centres for…
Aug 13, 2018
in Campaigning
“Those who profess to favour freedom and yet deprecate agitation…want crops without ploughing up the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters.This struggle may be a moral one, or it may…
Aug 01, 2018
in Zionism
1st August 2018 In 2010 SPSC and IJAN (International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network) co-hosted a ten-venue speaking tour in the UK and Ireland on the theme of Never Again for Anyone. Main speakers were Auschwitz survivor Dr Hajo Meyer and Dr Haider Eid,…
Jul 27, 2018
in Divestment
SPSC not only welcomes the decision by Falkirk Pension Fund to divest from Israeli Bank Hapoalim, but also the rationale for reaching that decision. The Scottish pension fund, which manages £2.3 billion in the pension funds for Falkirk, Stirling and…
Jun 08, 2018
in Football
Tonight (Fri June 8) at 7.30pm UK timeon https://www.facebook.com/scottishpscArgentine BDS activist David Comedi will discuss the decision by the Argentine national football team to cancel their game in occupied Jerusalem tomorrow.1. What were the main…
Jun 07, 2018
in Statements
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…
Jun 03, 2018
in State terror
The Israeli murder machine has been going about its grisly work for a very long time. Army snipers have coolly and professionally killed over 120 unarmed Palestinian demonstrators in the last few weeks, shot and maimed many hundreds more. Millions around the…
May 31, 2018
in Press releases
Send a letter to First Minister Nicola Sturgeon and Communities Minister Angela Constance to ask that the Scottish Government repudiate the IHRA definition as publicly as they adopted it. http://coordin8.org.uk/app/index.php/com/inlineLink/122 Press release…
May 31, 2018
in What is Zionism?
Paul Kelemen will be discussing his book, The British Left and Zionism: History of a Divorce in a webinar (an interactive discussion, a talk followed by Q&A) on the first Thursday of June - June 7th at 7pm UK time. You can register for that talk and join in…
