SACC renews its call for governments around the world to demand an end to the genocide and to cease all actions that have the effect of supporting or enabling the genocide or protecting Israel and Israeli leaders from the consequences of their actions.
You are here
News
-
31 October 2024
-
29 February 2024
Response to a joint statement by Stand Up To Racism Scotland and the STUC about their planned anti-racism march in Glasgow on 16 February 2024.
-
14 February 2024
SACC regrets that it is unable to support or participate in the march organised in Glasgow by Stand Up to Racism to mark the UN's International Day For the Elimination of Racial Discrimination ("Anti-Racism Day")
-
14 February 2024
The Gaza Genocide Emergency Committee (GGEC) is asking for other organisations to boycott the annual "anti-racism" march organised in Glasgow by Stand Up to Racism (SUTR)
-
21 December 2023
SACC pledges to support Mick Napier, charged with supporting a banned terrorist group in a speech made at a Glasgow protest against the Gaza genocide.
-
01 April 2023
UCU Scotland condemns the presence on the Stand Up To Racism march on 18th March 2023 of groups that defend Israel's racist colonisation of Palestine and says it will suspend all financial and other support to SUTR until explicitly pro-Israel groups are excluded
-
01 March 2023
Scottish Friends of Palestine says it will boycott the anti-racism demonstration scheduled for Saturday 18 March 2023 in Glasgow because of the presence on it of pro-Israel, racist groups.
-
19 January 2023
The Northern Ireland Divisional Court has been asked to intervene in a preliminary inquiry into terrorism charges against a Palestinian doctor in order to clarify the part played by MI5 in the case.
-
03 January 2023
Court proceedings in Northern Ireland have highlighted the activity of a man said to be an MI5 agent.
-
09 December 2022
The Annual Islamophobia Conference co-organised by IHRC, SACC and DIN, this year taking place online from 9 – 11 December.
-
08 June 2022
Dr Issam Bassalat, a Palestinian Scottish doctor who is facing terrorism charges in Northern Ireland as a result of what his lawyer calls "entrapment", will be appearing at the Court of Session in Edinburgh on Friday 10 June to fight for his right to practise medicine.
-
09 April 2022
SACC supports the proposal to twin Edinburgh with Gaza City but we not affiliated with the newly-formed Edinburgh-Gaza Twinning Association.
-
15 December 2021
Dr Issam Hijjawi Bassalat was released on bail on Monday 13 December.
-
27 October 2021
There were heated exchanges in a court in Northern Ireland on Monday over an ongoing bail application by Dr Issam Bassalat, who is in Maghaberry Prison awaiting trial on "terrorism" charges. Dr Bassalat has suffered a heart attack in prison. The court heard that he is at "substantial excess risk of further cardio-vascular events, including death."
-
13 October 2021
A court in Northern Ireland heard today, Wednesday 13 October, that Dr Issam Hijjawi Bassalat has suffered a heart attack. Dr Bassalat was due to appear by video link at a case management hearing at Dungannon Magistrates Court, along with nine other defendants charged as a result of Operation Arbacia.
-
12 October 2021
Dr Issam Bassalat, a Scottish Palestinian man facing terrorism charges in Northern Ireland, has issued an appeal for human rights organisations to monitor his case.
-
23 June 2021
Issam Bassalat has finally had the surgery he needs for his spinal problem. The operation appears to have been completely successful and has brought him great relief. But the circumstances surrounding the operation are very troubling.
-
19 January 2021
Letter to the Northern Ireland Executive and the Irish Government calling on ministers to take urgent steps to facilitate medical treatment for Dr Issam Hijjawi Bassalat, a Scottish Palestinian prisoner in Maghaberry Prison.
-
22 December 2020
A bail application by Dr Issam Bassalat has been rejected. Issam Bassalat is a Palestinian doctor from Edinburgh. He is in severe pain as a result of a spinal injury and would have sought treatment in Scotland if his application had been granted.
-
30 November 2020
"This inquiry must be prepared to go where no inquiry has gone before", says Aamer Anwar following the opening of the public inquiry into that death in police custody of Sheku Bayoh