Thursday June 22: Large Meeting Room, Glasgow Youth Hostel, 7-8 Park Terrace G3 6BY
7:00pm Glasgow Welcomes the ‘Handala’
Talk by Dr. Swee Ang who was working at the Gaza hospital in Beirut in 1982, witnessed the Sabra and Shatila massacre and then co-founded MAP in 1984.
The British orthopaedic surgeon was the doctor on board the Freedom Flotilla al-Awda in 2018 when the Israeli Navy attacked and hijacked it en route to Gaza.
Contributions by Prof. Graham Watt, Mick Napier, Zohar Chamberlain Regev, Yvonne Ridley.
Saturday June 24 at the ‘Handala’ at Yorkhill Pontoon Quay – beside the Glasgow Riverside Museum
11:00am Challenging the Siege of Gaza – Again
Journalist Yvonne Ridley Was on the 2008 boat to Gaza.
Two survivors of the Mavi Marmara massacre
Two Glasgow-based survivors of 2010 Israeli massacre of nine people on board the Mavi Marmara (a tenth later died of his wounds) in international waters. The Mavi Marmara was sailing to Gaza with a humanitarian cargo including medicines and baby incubators.
2:00pm Scottish victories against the Apartheid State
Mike Arnott STUC President on the power of trade union boycotts.
Mahmoud Sarsak on sports boycott. Mahmoud is a former member of the Palestinian national football team who was three months on hunger strike against detention without trial.
Mick Napier on fighting and winning against the JNF. Mick is a founder member of Stop the JNF, the racist Jewish National Fund (UK Patron Tony Blair). The JNF is a pillar of Israeli apartheid.
Palestine Action speaker on taking on the arms companies suppying Israel.
3:00pm BBQ for a donation
Sunday June 25 3pm
Visit by a delegation from the Iona Community, an ecumenical organisation, supporters of BDS.
Many of us are raging at:
- the diabolical cruelty of the Gaza siege
- the UK government backing for that siege
- the reticence of the Scottish Government to live up to its 2014 call for an arms embargo against Israel
Come and find out how you can help to challenge this open wound on the body of the planet.
Source: Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign. 22 June 2023
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