Lobby your MP to sign EDM 108 re Universal Jurisdiction.
From [BIN] digest - Urgent action needed. --- An early day motion is being undertaken with respect to changes to the application of Universal Jurisdiction. From an internal source at the Ministry of Justice, The Bill is currently in session and the amendments are likely to introduced before the House rises on 29 July. It's really important we seek as many of our MPs to sign the proposed Early Day Motion as set out below as soon as possible and oppose the proposed ammendments to the current application of UJ. --- Actual EDM is here; http://edmi.parliament.uk/EDMi/EDMDetails.aspx?EDMID=41023&SESSION=905 Please check if your MP has or has not signed it already ... If they have not, then ...
Yorkshire Evening Post
You can counter the Zionist Propaganda in Yorkshire Evening Post. [caption id="attachment_4392" align="alignright" width="274" caption="Zionist Letter to YEP"][/caption] Write, email or ring the YEP. E-mail: eped@ypn.co.uk Tel: 0113 2388536 Write to: The Editor, Readers Letters, Yorkshire Evening Post, Wellington Street, Leeds. LS1 1RF. REMEMBER: You must put your name address and phone number. It will not be published but the YEP needs to confirm you are not a Spoof. Letter writing tips here... # # # # # Previous articles and debates in Yorkshire Evening Post (most recent first): Action Alert: Reply to Anti-Boycott Letters in YEP Yorkshire Evening Post: PiL: Protest planned before Leeds show Yorkshire Evening Post: Zionist Letter “Israel’s Struggle” Pro-Palestinian vs Pro-Israeli ...
Boycott Israeli Dates
Below information thanks to Friends of Al-Aqsa. Leeds PSC will actively promote the boycott of Israeli dates this year. This Ramadhan, DON'T break your fast with Israeli Dates. Ramadan is a time of year when we remember those who are less fortunate than ourselves. When we break our fasts with dates, it would be an affront to us all if these dates were the produce of Illegal Israeli settlements built on land stolen from Palestinians. Israeli produced Medjoul dates are grown in the Jordan Valley within Illegal Israeli settlements. They form a large part of the agriculture from these settlements and they are ...
Support
Gaza Demonstrators Support Campaign http://gazademosupport.org.uk Hundreds of thousands of people across the world demonstrated against Israel’s war crimes. Motivated by images of violent death and destruction, and a desire to express solidarity with the people of Gaza, British adults and children spontaneously gathered at the Israeli Embassy in London on December 2008 and January 2009 to demand justice and protest their own complicity in the massacre. The police did not facilitate justice. Instead, they took names, addresses and photographs of as many demonstrators as possible, including children. Forward Intelligence Teams (FIT) were deployed on these demonstrations, and people were physically blocked in ...
De-CRIMINALISING SOLIDARITY: “RACISM” CASE THROWN OUT
Legal attempt to stifle solidarity through boycott has failed 5 spsc activists were accused of "racism" after disrupting a concert by Israel's cultural ambassadors, the Jerusalem Quartet Sheriff James Scott ruled the protest was “clearly directed at the State of Israel, the Israeli Army, and Israeli Army musicians”, and not targeted at “citizens of Israel” per se. “The procurator fiscal’s attempts to squeeze malice and ill will out of the agreed facts were rather strained”, he said. “And if persons on a public march designed to protest against and publicise alleged crimes committed by a state and its army are afraid to ...
Stop the Jewish National Fund
Leeds PSC is working on "Stop the Jewish National Fund" campaign. Essential Reading on Jewish National Fund Scottish PSC: Electronic Book (e-book): "JNF: Colonizing Palestine Since 1901," Edited by Mortaza Sahibzada (With contributions from Ilan Pappe, Abe Hayeem, Ghada Karmi, Uri Davis, Susannah Tarbush, Sonja Karkar, Ben White, Rahela Mizrahi, Rob Williamson and John Gross) Call for an international campaign to Stop the Jewish National Fund http://stopthejnf.bdsmovement.net The Jewish National Fund (JNF)[1] was instrumental in the ethnic cleansing[2] of Palestine in the 1948 Nakba, and continues to play a central role in maintaining Israel's regime of apartheid.[3] The JNF provided political, financial and intelligence[4] support ...
Supermarket Boycott
Morrisons Tesco Marks & Spencer ASDA Co-op Waitrose Sainsbury's Somerfield All major UK retailers sell Israeli goods, and most of them sell produce from illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank. Some have made statements in support of Zionism and some have contracts with Israeli companies. There is a growing movement to boycott Israeli goods in solidarity with the people of Palestine and in line with an international call for boycott, divestment and sanctions. There have been reports in the press that Israeli producers are experiencing a decline in demand for Israeli produce since the bombardment of Gaza in January 2009. This could be the beginning of a snowball ...
Israel’s Intimidation Tactics Won’t Stop Us: First Ship Sets Sail for Gaza!
http://www.freegaza.org/ FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE London – 14 May 2010 – At 22:45 local time tonight, the MV Rachel Corrie, a 1200-ton cargo ship, part of the eight-vessel Freedom Flotilla, set sail from Ireland on its way to the Mediterranean Sea. There, ships from Turkey and Greece will join her, then sail to Gaza. This past week reports from Israel have indicated that the Israeli authorities will not allow the Freedom Flotilla to reach Gaza with its cargo of much-needed reconstruction material, medical equipment, and school supplies. According to Israeli news sources, clear orders have been issued to prevent the ships from reaching Gaza, even if ...
Break the siege – Register for Viva Palestina 5: Convoy to Gaza
Since the beginning of Israel’s illegal siege on Gaza, individuals across the world have come together — participating in journeys to Gaza themselves, donating and raising awareness at home, and working to persuade the government to end the siege — as an act of solidarity with the besieged Palestinians in Gaza. With our government’s failure to end the blockade, people have been inspired to take action themselves to end the crisis, seen by the Gaza flotilla and previous land convoys. The overwhelming response to Israel’s attack on the Freedom Flotilla has forced governments to highlight this issue and call for an ...
Bradford Zionist looking for a job
After an excellent campaign by the Bradford group United 4 Palestine, with some help of members from the PSCNorth group of branches, Terry Rooney, MP for Bradford East has been unseated. Rooney, a Bradford MP for 19 years, was a member of Labour Friends of Israel despite the fact that his electorate is largely Muslim. When he realised that we were campaigning against him he started signing pro-Palestinian EDMs in a desperate attempt to save his skin. He initially agreed to attend the United 4 Palestine hustings, but in the end he sent an acolite to check the meeting (there ...










about 2 months ago
Dear Editor
Paul Brookes letter (YEP Monday 14th June) seems a poor a attempt to slander the murdered activists on the Gaza flotilla. Paul does not understand why Israel is so unpopular today. Israel wages illegal pre-emptive war on all its neighbours, steals their land, and bombs women and children in Gaza while conducting an illegal blockade. It also sends death squads abroad to murder opponents using forged British passports and conducts piracy and murder on the high seas to prevent peaceful protest. It is in breach of numerous UN resolutions including holding a large stockpile of illegal nuclear weapons, some of which it tried to sell the old apartheid racist regime in South Africa. Israel is a rogue state that conducts its warmongering business without any reference to international law, or any sense of justice for the Palestinian people who are forcibly displaced, starved and killed at will.
Your sincerely
about 2 months ago
Dear Editor,
Regards the letter from P Brooke of Leeds that you printed on Monday the 14th
of June.
Rather than being concerned about where British activists/ HRO’s (Human Rights
Observers) get their money maybe P Brooke should be more concerned as to
where Israel gets it’s money from? 7 million US dollars A DAY from the USA,
for Israel to use in it’s illegal occupation of the Occupied Palestinian Territories
(OPTs), the construction of it’s illegal settlements in the OPT’s, it’s barbaric,
blockade of Gaza subjecting 1.4 million civilians to collective punishment, illegal
under the Geneva Convention IV … it is a disgrace that Israel has been allowed to
get away for so long with abuse of the Palestinian people, it is a disgrace that ‘civil
society’, many governments and organisations of the world are complicit with Israel,
they/ we all have obligations to stop this suffering NOW.
Attacking an unarmed aid flotilla in darkness, and committing the despicable acts
of piracy, kidnapping and murder (military execution no less) in international waters
clearly shows the world how Israel does not care what the rest of the world thinks,
it knows it can act with impunity as it has done so for decades.
P Brookes assertion that ‘Israel is fighting for it’s very existence’ is a cynical,
preposterous lie that is perpetuated to justify Israel’s illegal actions, war crimes and
general vile conduct, these lies (many lies) no longer work, the people of the world
are finally waking up to exactly what Israel is.
Yours Faithfully
about 2 months ago
Dear Editor,
Regards the letter from M Nicholson of Barwick in Elmet that you printed on Friday Monday the 18th of June.
M Nicholson’s reply is quite the predictable, delusional Zionist rant. It shows total disrespect for those murdered on the Gaza flotilla. Many people are not ‘anti Israel’ they are ‘anti Zionist’, there is a massive difference. Israel does not represent the whole of the World Jewry as it purports, far from it … and the stolen lands of Palestine were not ‘a land without a people for a people without a land’ before we start on that fairy tale.
World War Two taught the World that racism (which Zionism is a form) is deplorable and must be confronted where ever it is found. Indeed what would the heroic Warsaw Ghetto Jews think of the cowardly actions of the Zionist State attacking an unarmed humanitarian aid flotilla in darkness and murdering good people?
Yours Faithfully
about 2 months ago
‘Many people are not ‘anti Israel’ they are ‘anti Zionist’, there is a massive difference.’
Not for most Israeli (or indeed other) Jews. Zionism is Jewish nationalism. Zionism is the only way Jews were able to counter Palestinian Arab Muslim and Christian efforts to exclude, dispossess or eliminate them, or keep them to a tiny, discriminated against minority in the land for most of Palestinian Christian and Islamic history.
Palestinian Christians and Muslims practised apartheid against Palestinian and other Jews for most of their history. Zionism is the only way Jews were able to defeat that,
about 1 month ago
In Reply to zkharya;
#1 ‘Israel’ does not speak for the World’s Jewry/ Judaism, thankfully.
To repeat being ‘anti Zionist’ is not being ‘anti Israel’, to call it ‘anti- Semitic’ is clearly ridiculous, ask Sephardic Jews.
Semitic – now there’s the joke isn’t it, Israeli Ashkenazi Jews from Europe, with dubious heritage links living on stolen land, thanks to the wonderful Aliya of the Zionist terrorist state, displacing Palestinians of true Semitic origin, having lived on that land for thousands of years … the evil colonialist racism Zionism then continues to deny these displaced Palestinians their ‘right of return’ (Al Awda) as is afforded to them per the Geneva Convention, but then Israel doesn’t care about or follow International law unless it suits them.