The above petition is now available for signatures on the website of the Scottish Parliament. The petition can be accessed here (NOTE: You must accept Cookies for the link to become ‘live’.) You are urged both to sign the petition and to publicise it as widely as possible.
Read more →As the media report ongoing Israeli aggression in the Palestinian Territories, Scotland’s young people continue to be left in ignorance of the history and current consequences of the conflict. For six years Scottish Friends of Palestine have been engaged in supporting the development of teaching materials for use in Scottish schools. In spite of initial […]
Read more →The above petition is now available for signatures on the website of the Scottish Parliament. The petition can be accessed here (NOTE: You must accept Cookies for the link to become ‘live’.) You are urged both to sign the petition and to publicise it as widely as possible.
Read more →As the media report ongoing Israeli aggression in the Palestinian Territories, Scotland’s young people continue to be left in ignorance of the history and current consequences of the conflict. For six years Scottish Friends of Palestine have been engaged in supporting the development of teaching materials for use in Scottish schools. In spite of initial […]
Read more →The issue of Israeli Government plans to unilaterally annex large swathes of the illegally occupied West Bank has been in the news over the last few months. Annexation is illegal under international law. It involves the forcible and unilateral acquisition of territory over which it has no recognised sovereignty. Annexation would follow on from years […]
Read more →Glasgow performance at Royal Conservatoire of Scotland Friday 5th July at 1pm. Tickets are free (donations welcome) All donations will go towards raising funds for the charitable work of Palmusic UK, Friends of the Edward Said National Conservatory of Music in Palestine. Performances from Palmusic scholar Lourdina Baboun (violin), Omar Saad (viola), Tibah Saad (Cello) with […]
Read more →Israel attempts to cover up its mistreatment of Mohammad Tamimi, cousin of Ahed Tamimi.
Read more →Scottish Friends of Palestine supported an information stall at a recent Unison Scottish Council meeting. This meeting pulls together together all the Unison branches in Scotland. The stall was to highlight the Time to Divest campaign. This campaign is aimed at trying to end Scottish Local Authority Pension Fund investments in companies complicit in Israel’s […]
Read more →Video of Ahed Tamimi’s “offence” – and subsequent night time abduction by the Israeli military – and the interview with the Israeli Member of the Knesset (MK) stating that he would have kicked her in the face. and Video of 14 year old girl dumped in Gaza
Read more →Ayrshire Palestine Forum, supported by Ayrshire Morning Star Readers and Supporters Group and Kilmarnock and Loudoun Trades Union Council, have organised a free public showing of the short film, ‘Britain in Palestine 1917- 1948’ on Wednesday 18 October at 7.30 pm in North West Kilmarnock Area Centre, Western Road, Kilmarnock. This is a short but informative […]
Read more →Israeli born peace activist and author, Miko Peled comes to Glasgow to share his account of growing up in the heart of Zionist Israel’s military elite. Son of a decorated Israeli army general, and having himself served proudly within its ranks, Peled’s thought provoking seminar takes us on a journey of tumultuous events which sparked […]
Read more →Medical Aid for Palestinians is a charity which undertakes outstanding humanitarian work. Scottish Friends of Palestine have recently been made aware that that the charity is highlighting that the situation in Gaza remains very serious. Aimee Shalan who is the Chief Executive of MAP recently said- Gaza continues to experience a humanitarian emergency but when […]
Read more →Go pick some olives and learn a few things along the way! Traveling to Jerusalem, Nazareth, Bethlehem, Nablus, Hebron, Haifa, among other towns and cities; meeting inspiring people, touring old cities, visiting schools and universities, dining in authentic restaurants and bars, and volunteering with local communities. The trip, from “19 November to 3 December”, will be […]
Read more →ILAN PAPPE’s new book Ten Myths about Israel is in the shops now at £9.99. It is a fascinating read. ILAN PAPPE is one of the most prominent Israeli political dissidents living in exile. He has written extensively about the Palestine/ Israel conflict with a real knowledge and empathy of the injustices faced by the Palestinian people […]
Read more →Next meeting of Ayrshire Palestine Forum Monday August 14 at 7. 30 pm Woodlands Centre Kilwinning Road Irvine. The group works to raise awareness of Palestine related issues in Ayrshire. Anyone who is interested is welcome to attend the meeting.
Read more →This was written by Ben Jamal, Director of Palestine Solidarity Campaign. We have some wonderful news. As you know, last week we took the British government to the Royal Courts of Justice to fight for our right to boycott. Today the judge delivered his verdict: WE WON!! The government was trying to stop local council […]
Read more →Scottish Friends of Palestine are promoting some events to mark the centenary of the Balfour Declaration . The Balfour Declaration was a short letter dated November 1917 from foreign secretary Arthur Balfour to Lord Rothschild a leading figure in the Jewish community which gave support to the creation of a Jewish homeland in Palestine. This […]
Read more →JERUSALEM (Ma‘an) 8 May — Palestinians who witnessed Israeli border police shooting and killing 16-year-old Fatima Afif Abd al-Rahman Hjeiji in occupied East Jerusalem on Sunday evening said the girl was “executed in cold blood” and did not pose a lethal threat when she was hit with some 20 bullets outside of the Old City. Israeli police claimed […]
Read more →The European Union’s consuls general in East Jerusalem and Ramallah are recommending economic sanctions against settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. Among the recommendations made in the nonbinding Heads of Mission report for 2012, which has been obtained by Haaretz, is to “prevent, discourage and raise awareness about problematic implications of financial transactions including foreign direct […]
Read more →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 […]
Read more →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 […]
Read more →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 […]
Read more →Click to view event details 13 March – Monopolis, War and Nato
Read more →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 […]
Read more →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 […]
Read more →Children in Chains – Israel’s Twilight Zone Seminar In the West Bank the detention of Palestinian children and young people by the Israeli military occupation forces, their treatment in the military courts, all go largely unreported and unchallenged. From the minute the children are detained, blindfolded or hooded, the treatment by their gaolers and military […]
Read more →Children in Chains – Israel’s Twilight Zone Seminar In the West Bank the detention of Palestinian children and young people by the Israeli military occupation forces, their treatment in the military courts, all go largely unreported and unchallenged. From the minute the children are detained, blindfolded or hooded, the treatment by their gaolers […]
Read more →Protest Brand Israel’s Batsheva in Edinburgh and across the UK Scottish Friends of Palestine is a member of Don’t Dance with Israeli Apartheid campaign, which is organising demonstrations against Israeli State-funded Batsheva at the Edinburgh International Festival and across the UK in November. Batsheva is part of the Brand Israel effort to shift attention away from Israel’s crimes: ethnic cleansing and mass violence […]
Read more →10 October 2011 Editor Sunday Herald 200 Renfield Street Glasgow G2 3QB Dear Sir, Sunday Herald “informed – incisive – in depth” ?? an Open Letter to the Sunday Herald The executive of Scottish Friends of Palestine took the opportunity, at a recent meeting, to critically review Trevor Royle’s article “An independent Palestine recognised by […]
Read more →“Colors from Palestine” 2012 Calendar is dedicated to the memory of Mahmoud Darwish. He was able to see what no one else can see: in life, politics, and even people, expressing his visions in a language that seems to be made only for him to write with. The calendar can be viewed at www.resistanceart.com. Born […]
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