‘Israel IS a racist endeavour!’
Free Speech for a Free Palestine
Join with Edinburgh SPSC for our weekly stall and leafleting this Saturday 29th September
We’ll be there 2:00-4:00pm on Princes Street at the Foot of the Mound.
We will be defending our right to express our freedom of speech and to call for freedom of Palestine.
As leaders of the Palestinian community recently declared:
‘The reality of the Palestinian people’s ongoing dispossession belongs to the public space: Palestinian people have the right to impart information about these present and past injustices, as every British citizen has the right to hear this information, along with the ideas and arguments that emerge directly from it.
Accordingly, any use by public bodies of the IHRA examples on antisemitism that either inhibits discussion relating to our dispossession by ethnic cleansing, when Israel was established, or attempts to silence public discussions on current or past practices of settler colonialism, apartheid, racism and discrimination, and the ongoing violent military occupation, directly contravenes core rights.
First, the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people who remain protected by international laws and conventions; and second, the rights of all those British citizens who stand by our side, in the solidarity of a common humanity’
Here in Scotland, the governing Scottish National Party endorsed the IHRA defintion without a murmur of dissent, contrary to the conclusions of its own study under Lord Bracadale, who insisted that protecting political entities such as Israel under the cloak of anti-hate crime legislation could endanger free speech rights.
SPSC will defy this attack of free speech. We will show in everything we say and write that Israel is a racist state – much more, in the words of Archbishop Desmon Tutu, than was apartheid South Africa.
On Saturday we will also continue to collect signatures from the public for the ‘Time to Divest’ campaign which is gathering momentum across Scotland.
Go to http://www.timetodivest.net to quickly send a current email to your own councillors to start the process of divesting from companies involved in Israel’s crimes.
Join us this Saturday 29th
FREE SPEECH FOR A FREE PALESTINE
