Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign

Arms trade

UK government under fire for inviting ‘war crime’ states to arms fair

Billy Briggs on August 14, 2019August 16, 2019

The UK government has been condemned for inviting regimes accused of killing children to an arms fair dubbed a "festival of violence".

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Arms trade, International

UK arms sales condemned after 12,000 children killed or maimed

Billy Briggs on August 4, 2019August 8, 2019

The UK government has been condemned for arming states named in a UN report revealing that 12,000 children were killed or maimed last year in armed conflicts.

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Society, Human rights, International

Scots Jewish group demands ban on pro-Israel campaigners at anti-racism protest

Billy Briggs on February 13, 2019April 6, 2019

A Scottish Jewish group has called for peaceful "civil disobedience" to prevent pro-Israel organisations from joining a major anti-racism protest in Glasgow next month.

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Politics

Pro-Israel group ‘disassociates’ itself from former BNP member

Billy Briggs on January 24, 2019April 6, 2019

A pro-Israel group in Scotland has issued public statements disassociating itself from a former member of the British National Party.

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Human rights, International

Egyptian journalist due in court in Edinburgh

Billy Briggs on January 15, 2019April 6, 2019

An Egyptian journalist and political activist who was wanted by Interpol is due to appear in court in Edinburgh this week.

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International, Human rights

Scots pension fund sells shares in controversial Israeli bank

Billy Briggs on August 22, 2018April 6, 2019

A council pension fund has sold its shares in an Israeli bank at the centre of a global divestment campaign due to its financing of illegal settlements in the West Bank.

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Human rights, International

New airline route brings Israel’s ‘apartheid system’ to Scotland, say critics

Billy Briggs on May 25, 2018April 6, 2019

A new airline route between Israel and Scotland has been criticised as most Palestinians are barred from using Ben Gurion Airport.

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Arms trade, Finance

Revealed: Scots pension funds invest in firms blacklisted by UN

Billy Briggs on December 7, 2017April 18, 2019

Scotland's two largest council pension funds have invested in companies reportedly on a UN blacklist for doing business in illegal Israeli settlements.

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Finance, International

Co-operative Bank closes human rights group’s account

Billy Briggs on January 11, 2016January 18, 2016

A pro-Palestinian organisation that opposes human rights violations in the Occupied Territories has been told by the Co-operative Bank that its account is to be closed.

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Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign

Arms trade

UK government under fire for inviting ‘war crime’ states to arms fair

Arms trade, International

UK arms sales condemned after 12,000 children killed or maimed

Society, Human rights, International

Scots Jewish group demands ban on pro-Israel campaigners at anti-racism protest

Politics

Pro-Israel group ‘disassociates’ itself from former BNP member

Human rights, International

Egyptian journalist due in court in Edinburgh

International, Human rights

Scots pension fund sells shares in controversial Israeli bank

Human rights, International

New airline route brings Israel’s ‘apartheid system’ to Scotland, say critics

Arms trade, Finance

Revealed: Scots pension funds invest in firms blacklisted by UN

Finance, International

Co-operative Bank closes human rights group’s account

Fergus Ewing is ‘un-ministerial’, says civil service union

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