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Speech by Dr Issam Hijjawi, intended to be read on his behalf at a protest organised by Edinburgh Gaza Genocide Emergency Committee (EGGEC) outside the German Consulate, Edinburgh on Sunday 14 April 2024

SACC briefing on the new definition of extremism announced by Michael Gove on 14 March 2024

Richard Haley looks at the ways support has been constructed in the west for Israel's genocidal project in Gaza. He contends that three issues have been key to opening the door for this next stage of annihilation being unleashed since October 2023 on the Palestinians.

An analysis of the media coverage of the Russian invasion of Ukraine from Thursday February 24th 2022 to Tuesday March 15th 2022 – 20 days.

Message from Dr. Issam Bassalat’s wife, thanking everyone who has helped her husband

SACC is proud to announce that it has joined 46 partner organisations around the world to support the International Witness Campaign.

Today marks the first anniversary of the launch of "Operation Arbacia", which resulted in the arrest of our friend the Scottish Palestinian activist Issam Hijjawi Bassalat.

Have children been targeted in Scottish schools over their support for Palestine? If so we want to know about it, and we can help.

Migrants and refugees are faced with an array of challenges upon arrival in the UK, including legal barriers that prevent access to employment, housing and healthcare, and more generally, a lack of opportunities to interact with others.

Northern Ireland's Justice Minister, Naomi Long, responds to concerns over the treatment of Dr Issam Hijjawi Basalat in Maghaberry Prison.

The new Counter-Terrorism and Sentencing Bill 2020 will not enhance public security.

Badreddin Abadlla Adam was shot dead by police after he attacked people with a knife. There may be circumstances in which firearms are the correct response to a knife, but they will be very rare. So what happened?

An outine of lockdown law in Scotland and your rights.

On 21 March the Scottish Government announced the terms of reference for the public inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the death of Sheku Bayoh. It remains to be seen whether Sheku Bayoh’s family will finally obtain justice.

Police forces around the UK have been categorising campaigners as "domestic extremists". Political policing has to stop. The starting point is to scrap the UK's terrorism laws and counter-extremism policies

Otherstani is a newly-released animation of a poem by Talha Ahsan.  Talha wrote the poem during his time in prison where he spent 8 years across the UK and the United States without trial.

Speech by holocaust survivor Hajo Meyer at a public meeting in the Augustine Church, Edinburgh on Saturday 23 January 2010.

"Only people who are already dehumanised due to indoctrination and propaganda are able to dehumanise others. These occupation forces are not really human. A great part of the Israeli population, not all of them, is dehumanised after three generations"

Speech at No War With Iran protest organised by Edinburgh Stop the War Coalition on the evening of 9 January 2020. We need to demand that British and US troops get right out of the Middle East, right now. And while they’re at it, covert operatives and private military contractors – mercenaries to you and me – need to get out too.

The sixth annual IHRC/SACC Islamophobia Conference took place on 14 December 2019 with concurrent events in London and Glasgow. This year's conferences focussed on the relationship between Islamophobia and the widely-noted shrinkage of civil society space. Report and videos.

Submission to the Inquiry into Islamophobia in Scotland conducted by the Scottish Parliament’s Cross Party Group (CPG) on Tackling Islamophobia from Scotland Against Criminalising Communities (SACC)