Scotland
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Zionist incitement to violence against SPSC speakers: Gideon Levy and Ben White
The last speaker hosted by Scottish PSC was Israeli journalist Gideon Levy, in August. Shortly after his speaking tour, the Jewish Telegraph published a letter calling for the speaker to be ‘eliminated’, killed. The Jewish Telegraph is now the subject of several complaints to the Press Complaints Commission, on the grounds that publications in this… Continue reading
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Scottish PSC ‘racism’ case thrown out!
Sheriff James Scott ruled the protest was “clearly directed at the State of Israel, the Israeli Army, and Israeli Army musicians”, and not targeted at “citizens of Israel” per se. “The procurator fiscal’s attempts to squeeze malice and ill will out of the agreed facts were rather strained”, he said. Continue reading
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Proposed exhibiton of Israeli Medicine, Science and Technology in the Scottish Parliament
We are writing to express our concern at the planned exhibition of Israeli Medicine, Science and Technology to be held at the Scottish Parliament in late April. The parliament is not a private venue and this is not an exhibition of science that just happens to have been carried out by Israelis. The exhibits are… Continue reading
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URGENT: Never Again For Anyone!
18 January, 2010 — Scottish PSC 1. Scottish PSC Activists in court 2. Never Again for Anyone speaking tour starts this week! – HMD Trust refuses to publicise meeting with Auschwitz survivor SPSC campaigners facing trumped-up political charges of ‘racism’ Thursday 21st and Friday 22nd of January, 9.30am outside Edinburgh Sheriff Court Help us fight Continue reading
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Scottish PSC human rights activists face political trial on same day as Palestinian citizens of Israel protest racist state
Five SPSC members are facing trial on Friday for boycotting Israeli state-sponsored cultural ambassadors, the Jerusalem Quartet. The Israeli musicians, in the words of their admirers, believe that ‘a rifle in one hand and a violin in the other is the ultimate Zionist statement.’ Continue reading
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The Capitalist Shakedown By William Bowles
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve started this essay on the Capitalist Shakedown that’s going on around us, totally disconnected from us even, due to some pretty nifty media work and, I might add, thirty years of revanchism on the part of our political masters to disconnect us all from the political process. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 