[WCUSP] Fwd: Fw: Israeli Ambassador cancells visit to Scotland in the face of planned protests

[yvonne simmons]

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> Subject: Fw: Israeli Ambassador cancells visit to
> Scotland in the face of planned protests
> Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 10:04:53 -0800
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> From: May Seikaly 
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>   From: Dorothy <dor_naor at netvision.net.il>
>   Date: November 17, 2006 9:00:28 AM EST
>   To: Profile Internal <internal at newprofile.org>
>   Subject: [newprofile message:799] Israeli
> Ambassador cancells visit to Scotland in the face of
> planned protests
>   Reply-To: dor_naor at netvision.net.il
> 
>   We should have thought of doing something of this
> sort in California last week!  Ah well. Maybe next
> time.  Bravo to the Scots.
> 
>   Dorothy
> 
>   ================================== 
> 
>   The Israeli Ambassador has cancelled his planned
> first visit to Scotland in the face of planned
> protests by many who are outraged at Israel's
> ongoing murder of hundreds of Palestinians in Gaza
> and the West bank.  The Scottish Palestine
> Solidarity Campaign will actively demonstrate
> against every attempt by an Israeli state
> representative to visit Scotland.   We urge our
> worldwide partners in Palestine solidarity and the
> wider anti-war movement to protest every visit by
> every official or unofficial representative of the
> Israeli Army and its State.  
>   We note the calculated attempts of Glasgow Jewish
> Representative Council president, Dr Kenneth
> Collins, to associate the entire Jewish community in
> Glasgow with Israel's crimes and we urge Jewish
> people of conscience to publicly repudiate any
> future inviatation to Zvi Hefetz to visit Scotland. 
>   United, we can win. 
> 
>   Wednesday's Press Release by SPSC: Wed Nov 15,
> 2006
>   “The Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign
> deplores the decision of the Newton Mearns Synagogue
> authorities to invite the Israeli Ambassador to
> deliver a political speech there on Thursday
> November 23.  In the immediate aftermath of the
> murderous invasion of Lebanon, and the ongoing
> massacres in Palestine, this is a desecration of a
> house of worship: a religious venue is being used by
> the representative of the state of Israel to
> propagate his murderous views. 
> 
>   For years we have stood by whilst the most
> revolting lies have been disseminated from the
> 'Israeli Information Office' in Giffnock, skulking
> inside a Jewish community centre there. Now the
> dispossessed and tortured Palestinian victims of
> Israel's crimes cry out to heaven for justice, and
> cry out to decent people around the world for action
> to bring Israel’s never-ending ethnic cleansing to
> an end. 
> 
>   We ask those Jews in Scotland who support human
> rights for all, and who are horrified at Israel’s
> crimes committed in their name, to protest to the
> Synagogue authorities at their decision to provide a
> platform in a House of worship in Glasgow for a
> defender of mass murder and ethnic cleansing.  Just
> as the wider community has raised a loud voice
> against Tony Blair’s illegal invasion and
> devastation of Iraq, precisely because he carried
> out these vile crimes in our name, it is incumbent
> upon our Jewish fellow-citizens to repudiate this
> representative of the rogue state of Israel.
> 
>   We hope this invitation to Zvi Heifetz will be
> withdrawn and that the Jewish community in Glasgow
> will realise the anger and horror many feel at the
> crimes of the regime he represents.  If this
> desecration of a Synagogue in Glasgow goes ahead,
> the Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign will call
> for a protest demonstration outside the meeting. 
> 
>   Many of us know about the mass killings and have
> seen with our own eyes many other crimes being
> carried out by the Israeli Government.  In a
> democracy, silence in a time of crime can be
> construed as complicity.  Actively providing a
> platform is a step too far.
> 
>   Scottish PSC
>   www.scottishpsc.org.uk
>   00 44 (0)131 620 0052 
>   00 44 (0)795 800 2591
>   ++++++++++++++++++++++
> 
>   from UK Jewish Telegraph, today Nov 17, 2006  
> "Hefetz visit is a no go
> 
> 
> 
>
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> 
> 
> 
> 
>   JEWS in Glasgow and Edinburgh have been left
> disappointed after a visit by Israeli Ambassador Zvi
> Heifetz was called off. 
>   The Israeli Embassy in London said that next
> week's visit had to be postponed because of
> "scheduling difficulties".  Mr Heifetz had been due
> to address the Glasgow community on Thursday
> evening. Glasgow Jewish Representative Council
> president Dr Kenneth Collins said: "Naturally we are
> very disappointed.  We were looking forward to
> meeting him on his first visit to our community
> since his appointment.  An embassy spokesman told
> the Jewish Telegraph: "We hope to be able to
> announce new dates for the beginning of 2007.  The
> Ambassador wishes to thank the Jewish community for
> its kind offer of hospitality.
> 
>  
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