Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign

Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign
FormationSeptember 2000 (2000-09)
TypePolitical organisation
PurposeBoycotts, political activism
Chair
Sofiah MacLeod
Websitehttps://www.scottishpsc.org.uk/

The Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign (SPSC) is a Scottish political organisation which campaigns in solidarity with the Palestinian people.

It supports the BDS Movement and its call for boycott, divestment and sanctions towards Israel until it ends the occupation of the Palestinian territories, acknowledges Palestinian refugees' right to return to their homes, and recognises the right of Palestinian-Arab citizens of Israel to full legal and political equality.

The organisation has successfully pressured Scottish cultural bodies to return sponsorship monies to the Israeli Embassy; one such success in 2009 led US Secretary of State to intervene clandestinely against the group.

Demonstrations in 2014 successfully forced Fringe productions funded by the Israeli government to close. Campaigning against the Jewish National Fund led to a number of JNF fundraisers being cancelled.

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