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Scotland Palestine Solidarity

@SPSC_ONTHISDAY

'On this day...' on matters related to #Israel, #Zionism and its illegal occupation of #Palestine #BDS #SaveSilwan #SaveSheikhJarrah

 Glasgow, Scotland
Joined June 2021
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1/2 EINSTEIN ON ZIONIST PARTIES "AKIN TO NAZIS" On this day in 1948, Albert Einstein and other prominent US Jews had a letter published in the New York Times denouncing the Herut Party, the predecessor of Netanyau’s Likud, as “closely akin in its organization, methods, ...
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2/ ...political, philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties.” Herut used “gangster methods” and “inaugurated a reign of terror in the Palestine Jewish community” as well as against Palestinians. Herut founder Menachem Begin received the Nobel Peace Prize 30...
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Childhoods lost. There is no excuse for genocide. Her eyes say it all.
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"I feel like it would be better if I died with my mom" This girl "survived" an Israeli bombardment that killed members of her family in #Gaza.
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1/ WHITE SUPREMACIST GUEST AT ZOA On January 12th, 2017, Steve Bannon spoke at the annual meeting of the Zionist Organisation of America. Bannon was editor of Breitbart, which he called the “platform of the alt-right”. The label “alt-right” is used by a coalition of white...
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2/ nationalists, white supremacists, anti-Semitic and neo-Nazi organizations. Bannon refused to condemn white supremacists in a rally at Charlottsville who repeatedly chanted “The Jews will not replace us!”
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1/ SNIPER KILLS 14-YEAR-OLD FARIS ODEH On this day in 2000, an Israel soldier shot Faris Odeh in the neck while the 14-year-old was throwing stones at an Israeli tank during a demonstration against occupation forces. AP had photographed Faris ten days earlier and the image became
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2/ ...iconic. His mother had repeatedly gone to the sites of the worst fighting in search of her son, often finding him nearest the Israeli troops. She berated him, 'Why do you have to be at the very front, even farther up than the older kids?' And he said, 'I'm not afraid.'
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1/ FOLLOWING 1956 SNEAK ATTACK ISRAEL REJECTS BORDERS On this day in 1956, following the tripartite - British, French, Israeli - invasion of Egypt, David Ben-Gurion addressed the Israeli parliament and declared a great victory, saying that the 1949 armistice agreement with...
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2/ Egypt was dead and buried, and that the armistice lines were no longer valid and could not be restored. Under no circumstances would Israel agree to the stationing of UN forces on its territory or in any area it occupied.
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aljazeera.com/news/2023/11/5…
Dozens killed after Israel bombs three refugee camps in Gaza

Dozens killed after Israel bombs three refugee camps in Gaza

Bombing comes days after air raids on Jabalia and Bureij refugee camps that officials say killed more than 200 people.

aljazeera.com
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1/ ISRAELI MINISTER TOLD TO STAY AWAY FROM MOURNING FOR JEWISH VICTIMS OF WHITE SUPREMACIST MASSACRE On this day in 2018, a White supremacist murdered eleven Jewish worshippers in a Pittsburgh synagogue in protest at the synagogue’s programme supporting refugees. The Wire* TV...
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2/ ...series creator, David Simon, told Israeli minister Naftali Bennet to stay away from the mourning since Netanyahu “aided in the election of Donald Trump and his raw and relentless validation of white nationalism and fascism.
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1/ HILTON LOCKED DOWN BY PROTESTS AT WAR CRIMINAL AT JNF EVENT On this day in 2002, hundreds of angry demonstrators protested General Shaul Mofaz, the Butcher of Jenin, who was speaking for the racist Jewish National Fund at the Glasgow Hilton. The entrance was blocked for...
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2/ ..hours by demonstrators who ignored the police steel fencing set up to kettle them. Catering staff declined to enter the hotel because of the protest. MSPs Margo MacDonald and Tommy Sheridan, MP George Galloway and STUC General Secretary Bill Spiers joined the demonstration.
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1/ ROOT CAUSE OF PALESTINIAN ANTI-JEWISH RIOTS On this day in 1929, Britain’s Shaw Commission opened its ten-week investigation into the reasons for the inter-communal rioting and killing in Palestine in late August 1929. It reported that “there had been no recorded attacks...
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2/ ...of Jews by Arabs” until “large sales of land in consequence of which numbers of Arabs were evicted without the provision of other land for their occupation. In consequence a landless and discontented class is being created. Such a class is a potential danger to the country”
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Apologies that you have not been receiving daily notifications - all eyes and efforts have been, and still are, on mobilising demonstrations calling for an end to Israel's genocidal attack on Gaza and its escalation of violence against Palestinians in the Occupied West Bank.
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*On This Day* notifications will now continue - you may find them a useful resource during these times.
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1/ SETTLERS BEAT UP 80-YEAR OLD RABBI WITH PALESTINIAN FARMERS On this day in 2019, masked thugs from the Jewish settlement of Yizhar used crowbars to beat up 80-year-old Israeli Rabbi Moshe Yehudai who was helping Palestinian farmers from the villages of Burin and Haware...
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2/ ..during the annual olive harvest in the northern West Bank. Four foreigners were also beaten and Rabbi Yehudai said later he feared for his life. The settlers went on to burn hundreds of trees. An army jeep approaching the scene turned around when the settlers started a fire.
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1/ SHAM SAUDI ROLE IN 1973 ARAB-iSRAELI WAR On this day in 1973, Saudi Prince (later King) Fahd bin Abdal Aziz called Ray Close of the CIA to a meeting “very late one evening in the early days of the 1973 war and asked me to send an urgent personal message from him to Richard...
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2/ Nixon informing the president that he had felt obliged to contribute a brigade of Saudi troops to the Golan front to support the Syrian offensive there [against Israel], but that he had personally instructed the commander of the unit not to fire a single shot”.
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1/ OWNERS' RETAIN RIGHTS TO LOOTED PROPERTY On this day in 2018, a Paris court of appeal ordered American collector Bruce Toll to return The Pea Harvest, a painting by Camille Pissarro (1887) to the heirs of Simon Bauer. The painting was seized in May 2017 while on loan to...
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2/ ..the Musée Marmottan in Paris. The court ruled that the painting was part of a collection looted in 1943 by the pro-Nazi Vichy government in France and had to be returned to the Bauer family. Palestinian land and movable property was looted more recently that The Pea Harvest.
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1/ NUCLEAR WHISTLEBLOWER KIDNAPPED FROM ROME On this day in 1986, Mordechai Vanunu was forcibly injected, kidnapped from a European capital, Rome, and taken to Israel after confirming in the Sunday Times the existence of Israel’s nuclear arsenal. He spent 18 years in prison,
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2/ 11 in solitary, a form of torture. In 2004 SPSC ran a successful campaign to have him elected Glasgow University Rector on a platform of Palestinian rights and opposition to aggressive wars in Iraq and elsewhere. He is still barred from leaving Israel to this day.
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1/ DEATH OF MARION WOOLFSON - ANTI-ZIONIST PIONEER On this day in 2012, SPSC Honorary President, Marion Woolfson died. Marion was a successful journalist for many years and author of a work on Jews in the Arab countries, Prophets in Babylon. When SPSC members were charged...
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2/ ...with 'racially aggravated conduct', Marion leapt to their defence: "Anyone who stands up for Palestinians is accused of being 'anti-Semitic'.
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1/ ISRAELI AL AQSA PROVOCATION STARTS INTIFADA On this day in 2000, Ariel Sharon, heavily guarded by Israeli soldiers and policemen, walked in to al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem in order to provoke an angry reaction from the Palestinian Muslim population. As was planned, fighting...
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2/ ...broke out between the unarmed Palestinians defending al-Aqsa and Sharon’s heavily armed soldiers and police. Seven Palestinians were killed in the fighting and thus began the 2nd Intifada - the al-Aqsa intifada.
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