• USACBI condemns Hillary Clinton’s failed attempt to suppress BDS organizing in Scotland

    Posted on August 10, 2015

    USACBI (the US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel) condemns in the strongest terms the interference of Hillary Clinton and the US Department of State in a failed attempt to undermine a Scottish campaign to reject Israeli funding of the Edinburgh International Film Festival. Through grassroots campaigning and the mobilization of artists, filmmakers and […]

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  • Don’t Dance With Apartheid: Batsheva receives institutional Israeli support

    Posted on August 25, 2012

    The Zionist Federation UK will be demonstrating in support of Batsheva and Israel outside the Edinburgh Playhouse Theatre.  Israeli Minister Limor Livnat will attend one of the Israeli State-sponsored dance group”s three performances for the Edinburgh International Festival (EIF) for three nights beginning Thursday August 30th.  EIF Director Jonathan Mills has publicly warned pro-Palestine demonstrators not to […]

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  • Scottish government involved in undermining BDS campaign against Eden Springs

    Posted on April 9, 2012

    Documents obtained by the Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign show how a subsidiary of an Israeli company operating in Britain turned successfully for help from the Scottish Government to deal with what the Israeli company called “a wave of protests…that is threatening the future of Eden Springs UK”. The contract cancellations had created a “pressing situation” […]

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  • SPSC – BOYCOTT ISRAEL GLASGOW

    Posted on September 14, 2010

    CORRECTION : THE WEBSITE IS www.scottishpsc.org.uk BOYCOTT ISRAELI PRODUCE IN STORES IN GLASGOW, THE PSC FROM EDINBURGH ALSO WORKED WITH GLASGOW PSC AND FRIENDS OF AL-AQSA.

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  • Israeli products boycott goes nationwide

    Posted on September 9, 2010

    10:34pm Wednesday 8th September 2010 A nationwide boycott of Israeli goods has been launched across Scotland as activists target Muslim-owned shops in an attempt to stop them selling produce from the Jewish state. The boycott, which started in the south side of Glasgow last weekend, was deemed so successful that campaigners decided to expand it. […]

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  • Boycott success in Glasgow to be rolled out across Scotland

    Posted on August 31, 2010

    Muslim shops ban Israeli produce in Palestine protest Boycott by Asian businesses in Glasgow’s south side Deborah Anderson Sunday Herald 29 Aug 2010 Rizwan Khan, who owns Rizwan stores on Allison Street, dumped a box of dates after being told of their origin and is supporting the boycott. He said: “I have been wary of […]

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  • Muslim shops ban Israeli produce in Palestine protest

    Posted on August 30, 2010

    Exclusive: Deborah Anderson 29 Aug 2010 Asian shopkeepers in one of the biggest Muslim areas in Scotland are backing a boycott of Israeli produce. In a move that has worried Jewish groups, Muslim families who own stores in Glasgow”s south side are refusing to stock Israeli goods in protest at Israel”s West Bank settlements and […]

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  • STUC REAFFIRMS ISRAEL BOYCOTT

    Posted on April 24, 2010

    Thursday 22 April 2010 Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign, Media Release The Scottish Trades Union Congress reiterated its commitment to a campaign of boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel at it annual meeting in Dundee yesterday, just days after a BBC poll described international attitudes to the country as “widely negative”. The motion, presented by the […]

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  • “Racism” charges dropped against Scottish solidarity activists

    Posted on April 9, 2010

    Press release, Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign, 8 April 2010 Five Palestine campaigners who contested the relevancy of a “racially aggravated conduct” charge in relation to their protest against Israel’s blockade of Gaza had all charges against them dropped today. The campaigners, all members of the Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign (SPSC), had interrupted the August 2008 […]

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  • Palestine group’s race harassment case thrown out of court

    Posted on April 8, 2010

    Published Date: 08 April 2010 CHARGES of racially aggravated conduct against five members of the Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign have been thrown out by a Sheriff. Around 60 of their supporters burst into applause when Sheriff James Scott delivered his judgement at Edinburgh Sheriff Court today. Michael Napier, 63; Sofia Macleod, 39; Vanesa Fuertes, 35; […]

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