Scottish Friends of Palestine

Prof Ilan Pappe The Electronic Intifada 20/04/ 2013 Sixty-five years on, Israeli President Shimon Peres still denies the existence of the indigenous population of Palestine. In a regal interview he gave the Israeli press on the eve of the state’s ” Independence Day,” Shimon Peres, the current president of Israel, said the following: “I remember […]

Not to go to the UN would be suicidal for the Palestinian Authority. All these people [in Gaza] took the brunt of the attack and now we should chicken out because they [the US and Israel] will cut off some money? What we’re doing is not violent; it’s not military; it’s not illegal. The world […]

NEVER FORGET THE MASSACRES OF DEIR YASSIN AND THE 100s OF OTHER MASSACRES THAT WERE PERPETRATED BY THE ZIONISTS BEFORE, DURING AND SINCE THE CREATION OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL This week, on the 65th anniversary of the NAKBA, Scottish Friends of Palestine will launch the first tranche of phase 1 of a website project […]

WATCH: Jewish settlers await the destruction of Bedouin village in Negev 972mag 28 Feb by Nadia Ben-Youssef — Jewish settlers have been camped out in an illegal settlement in the Negev (Naqab) forest of Yatir for two and a half years, waiting for the unrecognized Bedouin village of Umm al-Hieran to be razed so they can […]

http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/eu-consuls-recommend-imposing-sanctions-on-israeli-settlements.premium-1.506043 EU consuls recommend imposing sanctions on Israeli settlements Nonbinding Heads of Mission report for 2012 focuses on Israeli construction in E-1, policy in East Jerusalem and endangering of two-state solution; call to actively encourage European divestment from settlements is particularly severe. By Barak Ravid Haaretz – Feb.27, 2013 The European Union’s consuls general in East Jerusalem and […]

Click to view event details 13 March – Monopolis, War and Nato    

The Council and Members of Palcrafts and Hadeel have pleasure in inviting you to the Re-Opening Party of the Palestinian Fair Trade Shop hadeel Wednesday, 13th March 2013 – 5.30 – 8.00 p.m. with Humza Yousaf, MSP Minister for External Affairs and International Development After ten years of successful trading at 58 Shandwick Place, we […]

A ‘Palestinians-only’ bus line is launched in Israel after settlers complain Palestinians are a ‘security risk’. 04 Mar 2013 al Jazeera http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2013/03/20133414315434321.html Palestinian labourers use the buses to travel from the West Bank into Israel for work [EPA] Israel has launched two Palestinians-only bus lines in the occupied West Bank, a step an Israeli rights […]

Press Release                                                                                                                                                                                                        for immediate release Scottish […]

Press Release                                                                                                                                                                                                          for immediate release With the UK media currently indulged in a positive frenzy around the issue of abuse of children and young people, Scottish Friends of Palestine can only express its amazement at the lack of interest shown by the same media at the abuse of children and young people at the hands […]