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BDS conference in Scotland
BDS Weekend: 26-28 March 2010 *** event is fully booked – to get on the waiting list please email us and we will contact you if a place becomes available *** * Working on a strategy to defeat Israeli apartheid * Taking forward the strategy and practical goals of the Cairo Declaration * Participating groups […]
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Open letter in defence of the right to boycott Israel
Tuesday, 09 March 2010 14:57 March 2010 We, the undersigned, condemn the attempt by Scottish prosecutors to criminalise the growing international campaign to boycott Israel until Israel comes into line with international law. In July 2005, working in close co-operation with partners in South Africa, hundreds of civil society organisations across Palestine produced a call […]
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Press Statement By The South African Palestine Solidarity Movement and COSATU
STATEMENT BY SA PALESTINE SOLIDARITY MOVEMENT AND COSATU 7 January, 2010 PRESS STATEMENT ISSUED JOINTLY BY THE South African Palestine Solidarity Movement and COSATU We salute the gallant and heroic actions of over 1,400 people from around the world – especially the South African delegation – who went to Cairo to embark on the historic […]
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Scottish Government plan for ‘trade mission’ to Israel will shame Scotland!
[The visit is due to take place NEXT WEEK: 10-15 January 2010] This week Richard Falk, the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, told UN Radio: “Obviously Israel does not respond to language of diplomacy, which has encouraged the lifting of the blockade and so what […]
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STUC to ask Celtic fans to show Palestinian flags in solidarity with suffering Palestinians on December 2nd
November 27th 2009 Scottish Trades Union Congress (STUC) Deputy General Secretary Dave Moxham said: “This December marks the one year anniversary of the Israeli invasion of Gaza in which 1400 men, women and children were killed in an act described by the United Nations as “indicating serious violations of international human rights” and “amounting to […]
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Ken Loach & Scottish PSC oppose all racism. No exceptions.
Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign Statement Thursday 21 May, 2009 Ken Loach and the Edinburgh International Film Festival are to be congratulated for distancing the EIFF publicly from the unwelcome embrace of the State of Israel, a state now widely understood to be committing grave crimes against the Palestinian people. Many who would have stayed away […]
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BDS movement gains ground in Scotland
The boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel continues to gain leverage every day as more people become aware of Israel”s atrocities. Many argue that the BDS movement must penetrate every aspect of society for it to be fully effective at encouraging people to demand that Israel halt its policies of ethnic cleansing and […]
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Scottish BDS Activists Face Trumped up Charges
Mick Napier [Sumoud] 17 May 2009 – Five BDS Campaign activists face charges following their interruption of a performance during the 2008 Edinburgh International Festival by an Israeli musical ensemble. Far from being driven by malice towards Jews or Israelis, the rising world-wide campaign of BDS is driven by anger at the crimes of the […]
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Scottish Trade Union Congress Joins BDS Campaign!!!
Posted by RORCoalition on Thu, 04/23/2009 – 11:45 Scotland today joined Ireland and South Africa when the Scottish Trade Union Congress, representing every Scottish trade union, voted overwhelmingly to commit to boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel. This is the third example of a national trade union federation committing to BDS and is a clear […]
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Scottish PSC Press Release – Support the Right to Boycott Israel
Support the right to Boycott Apartheid Israel! Please meet outside the Sheriff Court at 9.30am on Friday 17th April. The five Scottish PSC members who were arrested when they disrupted the performance of the Israeli-state-sponsored Jerusalem Quartet at last August”s Edinburgh Festival will be at Edinburgh Sheriff Court (Chambers St) on Friday from 9.30am. In […]
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