August 03, 2006

Boycott Israel updates

Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign has scored some recent successes. An Israeli cricket tour of Scotland is being denounced by the campaign and the first game has been cancelled. Also Edinburgh Film Festival has returned a donation to the Israeli Embassy on account of Israel's war crimes in Lebanon.

On the cancelled cricket match, Osama Saeed is quoted as saying:
This is fabulous news, though we would wish that the decision had been taken earlier by the organisers on the grounds of principle rather than practicality. There’s a war taking place at the moment, with Israel as the aggressor, and it’s insensitive for them to being playing cricket in Glasgow at the moment. We hope that the same decision will be taken on the weekend matches.
More on his blog here.

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