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Showing posts with label SPSC. Show all posts
Showing posts with label SPSC. Show all posts
February 19, 2016
Latest News from Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign
March 30, 2014
Union calls on Theresa May to say FUCU to Tzipi Livni
This in from Stop the Jewish National Fund:
UCU Scotland condemns Israel war criminal visit to London JNF
The 2014 Annual Congress of the University and College Union Scotland Congress (UCU Scotland) today voted unanimously to condemn the planned visit by Israeli war criminal Tzipi Livni. The Israeli politician was given a rare diplomatic passport by the UK Government in 2011 specifically to protect her from the risk of arrest and prosecution for complicity in Israeli war crimes. Livni is planning to speak at a provocative Nakba Day meeting of the racist JNF (Jewish National Fund) at a secret central London venue on Thursday 15th May. UCU Scotland Congress called on Theresa May to refuse Livni entry to the UK.
On Nakba (“Catastrophe”) Day, Palestinians remember the wave of Zionist ethnic cleansing that engulfed Palestine in 1948, and created the world’s largest refugee population. Every year on 15th May Palestinians and human rights supporters protest Israel’s ongoing ethnic cleansing programmes, house demolitions and Israel’s apartheid system, of which the JNF is a central pillar.
Stop the JNF UK supports the demonstration called by Palestine Solidarity Campaign of England and Wales and the London Palestine Action in Central London on Thursday May 15th to protest the racist JNF and its war criminal guest, Livni.
In late 2009 Livni cancelled a scheduled visit to London when she discovered an arrest warrant had been issued against her on the grounds she had been a member of the Israeli war cabinet which organised the massacre of more than a 1400 Palestinians.
Click here to write to Home Secretary Theresa May to demand that Tzipi Livni be prevented from entering the UK to participate in incitement to hatred and division.
January 10, 2013
New Year greetings from Scots Palestine Solidarity
Best wishes for a fulfilling 2013 to all who want to act in solidarity with Palestinians.
We mourn the loss of friends - Ron Deen, Stephen Maxwell, Marion Woolfson, Rev Hugh Drummond - whose stalwart defence of Palestinian rights inspires us to continue and intensify our own efforts.
2012 was an active year for Palestine solidarity in Scotland, against a background of escalating Israeli dispossession and massacre, with full UK government backing of the criminal and apartheid state. The question is still open whether the worldwide movement of disgust at Israeli crimes and sympathy for the Palestinian cause can be turned into active solidarity of sufficient impact to force an end to Israeli crimes before the Zionist project is completed.
SPSC is simply still too small as 2013 opens; we need your energy and your ideas to prevent the complete colonisation of all of Palestine with all Palestinians herded into walled and electronically controlled prisons.
Unsurprisingly, UK Foreign Secretary Hague supported the November surge in Israeli killing of Palestinians without reservation, and Tony Blair stills slouches around the Middle East, at huge public expense, as our official 'peace-bringer'. We expect by now that Hague and Blair will rub salt in the open wounds of Palestinians, but many were surprised when the Scottish Government dropped the First Minister's previous rhetorical commitment to sanctions against Israel and opted for normalisation.
2012 witnessed the development of Scottish-Israeli trade and technical cooperation, diplomatic relations unhampered by Israel's violations of international law, and Scottish Government defence of its financial aid to Israeli settler company, Eden Springs, to forward its business plan promoting the products of another Israeli settler company, Soda Stream.
2012 also saw ordinary citizens and civil society institutions take a stand against Israeli crimes, with the building of the BDS campaign, boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel until it conforms to minimum standards of justice for Palestinians.
Seven Scottish PSC members participated in the World Social Forum - Free Palestine, in Brazil in November, which went ahead despite sustained Israeli and local Zionist efforts to prevent it.
Observing South America, Palestinians can draw inspiration from current successes of indigenous peoples there to challenge colonial-settler systems based on racial domination by a white elite of mainly Spanish European decent. The current Bolivian President, Evo Morales, describes the Bolivian struggle as similar to that of South Africans. The inspiration is two-way; some talk of the indigenous people's intifada.
We appeal to you personally to help us build a stronger campaign in support of Palestinians and against UK and Scottish Governmental complicity. Please support SPSC.
- Join - wherever you are. Even if you can't attend the AGM from Alaska, you'll know you're helping.
- Donate - we are all volunteers and no-one makes a dime out of our activism.
- Network - ask your group, campaign or friends to join our mailing list and receive occasional updates. Use Scottish PSC as a resource to put you in contact with groups/activists in your area or to get you started with a local solidarity group.
Alone you can do something, but if you organise with others of your ilk you can do much more. Together we have a real chance to consign apartheid Israel to the dustbin of history with apartheid South Africa.
Mick Napier
On behalf of Scottish PSC
- Scottish PSC correspondence with the Scottish Government - http://bit.ly/UBulQx
- Scottish PSC: looking back at 2012 - http://bit.ly/XkVo4U
Coming events
- 9 February: Agricultural trade day of action against complicit companies - http://bit.ly/VIbjco
- 23 February, Dundee: Scottish PSC AGM - http://bit.ly/Wu2q4R
- 23 & 24 February, Dundee: Members meeting - Scottish PSC campaign planning 2013 (email secretary@scottishpsc.org.uk for details)
- 14-16 June, Comrie: Scottish PSC residential weekend - politics of solidarity (email secretary@scottishpsc.org.uk for details)
Take action now
- Vote for G4S in the worst company of the year awards - http://www.publiceye.ch/en/
vote/g4s/ - Time For Justice, a call from Palestine to EU citizens: Write to your MEP - http://palsolidarity.org/
timeforjustice/
October 19, 2012
Cameron on BDS
I got this from a Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign (SPSC) email the other day. It's a speech by UK Prime Minister, David Cameron, to a gathering of zionists in the UK under the banner of the United Jewish Israel Appeal. After the obligatory sycophancy which manages to tar all Jews with the zionist brush,
I will always stand by the Jewish people. And it is humbling to be here tonight and to be called a friend.he takes a swipe at BDS:
to those in Britain’s universities and trades unions who want to boycott Israel and consign it to an international ghetto, I say not only will this Government never allow you to shut down 60 years worth of vibrant exchange and partnership that does so much to make both our countries stronger but I also say this: we know what you are doing – trying to delegitimise the State of Israel - and we will not have it.Well SPSC isn't having any of that:
Yes, you will have it, David, and sooner rather than later. As you know, Margaret Thatcher opposed sanctions against apartheid South Africa as long as she could and told her Ministers that the ANC was “a typical terrorist organisation” (even while she supported the genocidal Khmer Rouge). Later, she, and you, were keen to have your photos taken with Nelson Mandela.
Hmm, yesteryear Johannesburg, next year, Jerusalem? Well, maybe some years yet....You had to eat her words about apartheid South Africa: who will eat yours about Palestine and apartheid South Africa?
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