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Palestinians face genocide, fighting for freedom. Join SPSC by Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign

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The challenge is huge; Scottish and UK weapons continue to flow to the Israeli military. As with any other settler-colonial project, extreme violence and a tendency to genocide is built-in to Zionism. The Egyptian dictatorship matches its Israeli ally in brutality, preventing Palestinians from escaping the Gaza concentration zone. Only a united and determined campaign linking and organising across Scotland, the UK and internationally can hope to defeat Israel’s genocidal plans. SPSC aims to play its part in building it. Join us in that endeavour.

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Scotland and Palestine: Building Friendship and Solidarity by Clive Hambidge

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With then the premise of international law collapsing around us and one SNP MP to suggest we are witnessing not just the ethnic cleansing of Palestine but genocide, the murmur that rippled around committee room confirmed once more that which we have always known. My mind threw up a statement by Recep Tayyip Erdogen in The Times of Israel July 17 2014 “Since (the creation of the state of Israel) in 1948 we have been witnessing this attempt at systematic genocide every day and every month,” he said. “But above all we are witnessing this attempt at systematic genocide every Ramadan.”

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Houses of Commons’ Scotland & Palestine event discuss future relations on Palestinian Return Centre

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Professor Hassassian started the event with a highly powerful and moving speech. “If I could choose a people to march with me it would be the Scottish”, he began, and went on to talk of the current situation on the ground in Palestine, noting the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian population as well as the genocide of the Palestinian culture.
… Paul Monaghan SNP MP talked of his recent visit to Palestine, where he witnessed clear state terrorism and the genocide occurring every day.

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