events
| City | Event | Location |
| Glasgow | Glasgow Barclays Protest 9:30am Sat, Aug 15 |
Barclays Bank – Argyle Street, Glasgow 83 Argyle Street, G5 8DP |
| Edinburgh | Edinburgh Barclays Protest 10:30am Sat, Aug 15 |
Barclays Bank Edinburgh 10-15 Princes St, EH2 2AN |
| Edinburgh | SPSC in The Meadows: Stall 11am Sat, Aug 15 |
The Meadows Compass Middle Meadow Walk Intersection, EH3 9GE |
| Edinburgh | Freenge – Festival of Resistance 12pm Sun, Aug 16 |
The Meadows @ the Pavilion Melville Drive, EH9 1JZ |
| Glasgow | SPSC Glasgow Branch Members Meeting 7pm Mon, Aug 17 |
The Ark 70 Coplaw Street, G42 7JG |
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Weird Zionist Aggression on Buchanan Street, Glasgow
This man threatening a member of the public at the Glasgow Friends of Israel stall on Buchanan Street, Glasgow, last Saturday (8 August 2026), is Walter Hecht, a wealthy businessman and fanatical Zionist. In the photo, we see him menacing a young man who accepted the invitation to stop at their public street stall but…
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2006-26 Successful Cultural Boycott in Scotland
When the curtain rises in a few days on the 2026 Edinburgh International Film Festival, we can celebrate 20 years of keeping this internationally respected film festival free of any sponsorship and involvement by the genocidal state. In 2006, the EIFF accepted finance from the Israeli Embassy in London and only a determined SPSC-led campaign…
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Israeli Executions of Palestinian Aid Workers
Lewis Clark, Chair, FBU East Area (Scotland) on the Earshot Report At this year’s Fire Brigades Union Annual Conference delegates were presented with a report into the killing of emergency service workers in Gaza. On Sunday 23 March 2025, evidence shows the IDF targeted and killed fifteen Palestinian emergency workers – including at least three…
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Scottish Government: inaction on BDS commitment
The Scottish Government, once again, is telling us they are aligned with the establishment As Scotland’s First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon travelled to the US to meet with think tanks making sure they understood that Scotland’s approach to foreign affairs, particularly in the Middle East, did not vary much from the UK government. It appears that…
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Statement on Mick Napier’s successful appeal
A bench of Scottish judges has quashed a racial aggravation conviction of SPSC founding member Mick Napier in December 2025 by Sheriff John McCormick. They concluded that Sheriff McCormick had not ‘objectively’ or ‘adequately addressed the question of proof of the aggravation’. The Sheriff Appeal Court decision noted that McCormick had ignored defence key evidence: …
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Scottish Court Retreats After Starmer Government Intervention
28 May 2026 In the Court of Session decision today, Lord Young backed the British government’s proscription of Palestine Action, retreating from an earlier decision to allow a Scottish judicial review to proceed. Starmer sent a senior legal officer, the Advocate General for Scotland, to make arguments that were largely unchanged from those Lord Young…
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BDS successes of 2014 that need to be defended and extended
In 2014, Israel attacked Gaza with overwhelming force and slaughtered over 2,200 Palestinian men, woman and children – over 10,000 were wounded, including 3,374 children, of whom over 1,000 were left permanently disabled. Palestinians heroically resisted the Israeli blitzkrieg and killed 67 of the invading Israeli soldiers (and five Israeli civilians). Around the world, BDS…
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MEDIA RELEASE: Clinton intervention fails to reverse Israel boycott
Media Release: Sunday 9th August 2015, No Embargo Pro-Palestine campaigners say recent revelations of Hilary Clinton’s attempt to overturn the Edinburgh International Film Festival’s (EIFF) rejection of Israeli Government funding is evidence that “boycott works”. The Scotsman wrote on Saturday’s front page that the effects of the May 2009 boycott “went right to the upper…
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Caledonian Hotel hires Anthony Julius’ firm to muzzle SPSC
“Our only defence against such wealthy and powerful opponents is that we are telling the truth: Anthony Julius is a racist because he suppports the racist Jewish State of Israel which systematically discriminates against its Arab citizens, denying them the same rights as Jewish citizens, and carries out a reign of terror against Palestinians in…